🎉 Introducing the Vibelink Amp – Unleash the Power of Pure Sound 🎉

Hello WiiM community! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our latest innovation: the Vibelink Amp! Designed with your needs in mind, this 100W per channel amplifier brings high-fidelity sound and unmatched versatility to your audio setup. Perfect for passive speakers, the Vibelink Amp ensures a premium listening experience when paired with one of our streamers, with a footprint designed to match the WiiM Ultra. By leveraging its premium DAC, Vibelink Amp is also a perfect match for WiiM Mini and WiiM Pro or WiiM Pro Plus via digital input for superior sound quality.

Why Choose the Vibelink Amp?​

• 100W per channel at 8 ohms, 200W at 4 ohms: Experience powerful, distortion-free amplification for room-filling sound.
• Premium unibody aluminum design: Sleek, durable, and thermally optimized for efficient heat dissipation during prolonged use.
• High-fidelity audio with premium components: Premium DAC, amplifier, and op-amps
• Post filter feedback technology (PFFB): Overcomes speaker's load-dependency
• Bit-perfect playback (192kHz/24-bit): Achieve true audiophile performance with every note.
• Anti-Pop Noise Design: Enjoy smooth transitions across variable sample rates and bit depths without interruptions.
• Auto Standby & 12V Trigger In: Smart energy-saving features that fit modern setups.
• Pure analog input (no ADC conversion): Savor uncompromised sound quality for your favorite analog devices.
• Seamless integration with WiiM streamers: Effortlessly pairs with devices like the Ultra, Pro Plus, Pro, and Mini for high-resolution audio.

Key Features You’ll Love:​

• Hi-Res Audio Excellence: Packed with a high-quality built-in DAC ESS ES9039Q2M, one TI PCM9211 digital and analog front end, six TI OPA1612 Op-amps, and a TI TPA3255 Amp Chip, the Vibelink Amp supports up to 24-bit/192kHz high-res music allows you to optimize beloved, decades-old, high-quality audio systems or connect current speakers with your favorite platforms effortlessly.
• Versatile Connectivity: Easily connect your favorite devices with analog (RCA) or digital (optical, coaxial) inputs.
• Compact & Efficient: With a sleek, stackable design and cutting-edge thermal management, the Vibelink Amp fits right into your setup and stays cool even during marathon listening sessions.
• Easy, Secure Connections: Standard stereo banana plug output ensures a solid connection to speakers, delivering high-quality sound without signal loss or dropouts.

Why We’re Excited:

Compact Yet Powerful – A well-built, high-performance amplifier that delivers exceptional power in a sleek, space-saving design.
True Hi-Res Audio Support – Supports up to 192kHz/24-bit, ensuring full compatibility with high-resolution music services and user libraries, unlike many amplifiers that lack this capability.
Seamless Playback with No Artifacts – Effortlessly handles variable sample rates and bit depths between tracks, eliminating unwanted pops and clicks that occur in many amplifiers when audio resolution changes.

At WiiM, we’re all about listening to our community. Many of you asked for a powerful amplifier that delivers exceptional sound quality and integrates effortlessly into existing setups and we’ve been listening! The Vibelink Amp is a dedicated solution for passive speakers, designed to pair seamlessly with all WiiM streamers or as a standalone amp for your favorite gear. Whatever your setup, this amp brings the exceptional sound quality you’ve come to expect from WiiM.

The Perfect Match for WiiM Streamers​

✔ Seamless Integration – Designed for flawless compatibility with WiiM Mini, Pro, Pro Plus, and Ultra—just plug and play.
✔ Flexible Connectivity – Choose digital (Optical/Coaxial) or analog (RCA) inputs for maximum audio fidelity.
✔ Ultra-Low Latency – Perfectly synced playback for high-resolution streaming and immersive home theater sound.
✔ Studio-Grade Sound – Experience deep bass, crisp highs, and stunning clarity with bit-perfect precision.

Pair your WiiM Mini, Pro, Pro Plus, or Ultra with the WiiM Vibelink Amp and experience pure, powerful, and immersive sound like never before. Elevate your high-fidelity streaming with crystal-clear detail, deep bass, and room-filling audio.

Your music, perfected. Upgrade your setup today!

Pricing and Availability​

The Vibelink Amp will be available starting March 18th on Amazon US for $299, with international availability on its way. Don’t miss your chance to elevate your audio experience! Find out more on our website.

Let us know what excites you most about the Vibelink Amp, and share your setups! We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

 

[slartibartfast]

According to the datasheet, this TI chip digitizes the analog input. Wonder why it is used, whereas there are many SPDIF receiver (digital front-end) chips without ADC - if this claim is true:

Good spot, that sounds suspicious indeed. I think we need some clarification.

 

[F1 Fan]

Please say it’s bridgeable

 

[harkpabst]

We already had that clarification, no?

Just because the PCM9211 also contains a stereo ADC doesn't mean that it's put to use for the analogue input.

 

[slartibartfast]

We already had that clarification, no?

Just because the PCM9211 also contains a stereo ADC doesn't mean that it's out to use for the analogue input.

Seems strange to mention the "analog front end" part of the PCM9211 though.

 

[Burnside]

Seems strange to mention the "analog front end" part of the PCM9211 though.

Who mentions it? I thought the comment said the datasheet for the chip says that, not WiiM.

WiiM has said it doesn’t digitise the analogue input, why disbelieve that?

 

[RedWire75]

There should be more stock soon!

Soon being within days or within weeks? Just want to know so my OCD can stop furiously checking Amazon. Sitting in my cart with an Ultra ready to go. As a rule, I don’t buy anything without an estimated ship date.

 

[RyanWithWiiM]

Soon being within days or within weeks? Just want to know so my OCD can stop furiously checking Amazon. Sitting in my cart with an Ultra ready to go. As a rule, I don’t buy anything without an estimated ship date.

Days! I believe there are more on the way right now, and more being made every day as well.

 

[pjn]

If connecting a WiiM Ultra to this, is there a method favoured by WiiM when deciding whether to use RCA, Coax or SPDIF? Thanks!

 

[AlPo]

Who mentions it? I thought the comment said the datasheet for the chip says that, not WiiM.

This is a quote Ryan’s original post in this thread. Seems to contradict the “not digitizing analog input” statement

TI PCM9211 digital and analog front end

 

[BK308]

From Amazon.

 

[telecastermds`]

If connecting a WiiM Ultra to this, is there a method favoured by WiiM when deciding whether to use RCA, Coax or SPDIF? Thanks!

I’d go analog and use Ultra as volume control

 

[Burnside]

This is a quote Ryan’s original post in this thread. Seems to contradict the “not digitizing analog input” statement

TI PCM9211 digital and analog front end

That doesn’t say to me that it converts analogue to digital, just that it handles both. While the actual chip datasheet says it has an ADC function, it doesn’t mean the vibelink uses it. The datasheet also talks of a routing function, what’s to say that’s not what happens to the analogue

https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/pcm9211.pdf?ts=1742303314321&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ti.com%252Fproduct%252FPCM9211

WiiM saying it doesn’t digitise analogue input is enough for me…

 

[Burnside]

I’d go analog and use Ultra as volume control

I’d try digital as well and see if there’s a difference tbh…

 

[slartibartfast]

Who mentions it? I thought the comment said the datasheet for the chip says that, not WiiM.

WiiM has said it doesn’t digitise the analogue input, why disbelieve that?

 

[Burnside]

So it has a “digital and analogue front end”, where does that say it converts analogue to digital? It could simply pass digital to its DAC and analogue onwards to the amp stage.

 

[Smartplug]

The amp has digital input so it has built in dac. I thought this just straight power amp.

 

[Burnside]

The amp has digital input so it has built in dac. I thought this just straight power amp.

With the option of digital inputs which will allow even a WiiM Mini to benefit from the vibelink’s better DAC

Like terms such as bit perfection, I think sticking to rigid definitions of power amps etc isn’t as important as the benefits that the vibelink can bring to a range of streamers

 

[canard]

That doesn’t say to me that it converts analogue to digital, just that it handles both. While the actual chip datasheet says it has an ADC function, it doesn’t mean the vibelink uses it. The datasheet also talks of a routing function, what’s to say that’s not what happens to the analogue

https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/pcm9211.pdf?ts=1742303314321&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ti.com%252Fproduct%252FPCM9211

WiiM saying it doesn’t digitise analogue input is enough for me…

Did you read the "routing" part you pointed out?
(I don't see any analog output... and alpo point is quite reasonable. ....)

but more than that it is the problems encountered by armim for his review on this entry which need to be "clarified"...
(just it seems to me)

 

[slartibartfast]

So it has a “digital and analogue front end”, where does that say it converts analogue to digital? It could simply pass digital to its DAC and analogue onwards to the amp stage.

It seems to imply the PCM9211 is used for the analog front end and that has an ADC. I don't know if that can be bypassed.

 

[harkpabst]

If you don't believe WiiM when they say that the analogue input is not digitised, whom are you going to believe?