🎉 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!

 

[EddNog]

Fosi P4 preamp is $99 with a motorized volume knob and remote. You could build a Fosi Audio stack with a preamp, power amp, DAC and phono preamp, but you sacrifice the one box approach of the Vibelink.

Big cost difference between standard potentiometer versus relay-actuated resistor ladders, though. Whether that difference in performance is justified by the cost difference would be up to the buyer, I guess.

-Ed

 

[BK308]

Let's all just collectively pretend these pictures with the smaller silver thing don't exist for like a few weeks.

It looks too similar to this abomination. Triggers PTSD

 

[Smartplug]

Handsome little upgrade! Slightly more compelling now for WiiM Ultra owners like myself since before this change, it was not an upgrade at all for us.

-Ed

Was there significant difference between 9038 and 9039? Of course we want the latest chip.

 

[canard]

ps
qualitative Chinese solutions are arriving on the market, with calibrated resistances at much lower costs...like eizz 24 pos ( like few years before the standart....)
ps bis
here no argument of motorization since there is no remote control... honestly it is really the surprising point given the nature of this machine...
;-)

 

[EddNog]

Was there significant difference between 9038 and 9039? Of course we want the latest chip.

Bigger improvement going to 9038 Pro than 9039 Q2M from 9038 Q2M, but I have yet to see WiiM use any of ESS’ Pro level DAC chips. Probably not willing to due to cost. The Pro models perform much higher than any Q2M models.

-Ed

 

[Smartplug]

ps
qualitative Chinese solutions are arriving on the market, with calibrated resistances at much lower costs...like eizz 24 pos ( like few years before the standart....)
ps bis
here no argument of motorization since there is no remote control... honestly it is really the surprising point given the nature of this machine...
;-)

You don’t have to mention things like Chinese because there some people are sensitive on such thing. I like their product and thinking about getting one since I have nearly all wiim but pro plus and amp plus. I could use this in conjunction with pro.

 

[canard]

You don’t have to mention things like Chinese because there some people are sensitive on such thing. I like their product and thinking about getting one since I have nearly all wiim but pro plus and amp plus. I could use this in conjunction with pro.

(i'm just talking about the affordable resistor attenuators that are actually... Chinese... ( like eizz)
has always been expensive elements.
that's all... but off topic)

 

[bonashin]

I want to connect my TV to the WiiM Ultra via HDMI ARC and use the TV remote to turn the WiiM Ultra and WiiM Vibelink Amp on/off and adjust the volume. If I use the TV remote for volume control, does it mean that the WiiM Ultra must be set to variable volume while the WiiM Vibelink Amp is fixed at maximum volume? If so, in terms of sound quality, I think it would be better to set the WiiM Ultra (which acts as a preamp) to a fixed maximum volume and adjust the volume using the WiiM Vibelink Amp. However, in this case, I wouldn't be able to adjust the volume with the TV remote, and having to go to the WiiM Vibelink Amp to adjust the volume would be inconvenient.

 

[Wiimer]

I want to connect my TV to the WiiM Ultra via HDMI ARC and use the TV remote to turn the WiiM Ultra and WiiM Vibelink Amp on/off and adjust the volume. If I use the TV remote for volume control, does it mean that the WiiM Ultra must be set to variable volume while the WiiM Vibelink Amp is fixed at maximum volume? If so, in terms of sound quality, I think it would be better to set the WiiM Ultra (which acts as a preamp) to a fixed maximum volume and adjust the volume using the WiiM Vibelink Amp. However, in this case, I wouldn't be able to adjust the volume with the TV remote, and having to go to the WiiM Vibelink Amp to adjust the volume would be inconvenient.

I think it would be better if you set the volume of Ultra to 100%, then gradually increase the volume of Vibelink to the maximum volume for you, and then fix the volume of Vibelink.

 

[harkpabst]

If so, in terms of sound quality, I think it would be better to set the WiiM Ultra (which acts as a preamp) to a fixed maximum volume and adjust the volume using the WiiM Vibelink Amp.

In practice, this is a point of concern with very low volume settings, only (where our hearing is at its least linear anyway). As long as you stay away from the lowest few steps there won't be any audible disadvantage to volume control in the digital domain.

Analogue volume control has its own issues (in particular with cheap carbon film pots), with channel imbalance just being the most obvious one. Conductive plastic pots can do better. Stepped attenuators and active gain control even more so, but bring their own challenges.

It's unreasonable to assume that any form of analogue volume control is "lossless" just because it's analogue.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

I think it would be better if you set the volume of Ultra to 100%, then gradually increase the volume of Vibelink to the maximum volume for you, and then fix the volume of Vibelink.

I’d set the Vibelink (which doesn’t have a remote) to 100% and control volume from the Ultra (which does have a remote) for all inputs.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

Let's all just collectively pretend these pictures with the smaller silver thing don't exist for like a few weeks.

It’ll be interesting to see if it’s just a new remote, or a new product which comes with a (new) remote.

 

[slartibartfast]

I’d set the Vibelink (which doesn’t have a remote) to 100% and control volume from the Ultra (which does have a remote) for all inputs.

If you do that you will never use the Ultra volume near the top end of the volume scale though. If you set the Vibelink to a volume which you never want to exceed you can use the Ultra volume closer to 100%. You still use the Ultra remote. It would be similar to reducing the gain of a power amp to allow better use of the Ultra volume range.

 

[Burnside]

I’d set the Vibelink (which doesn’t have a remote) to 100% and control volume from the Ultra (which does have a remote) for all inputs.

I think the use of the Ultra for volume control is implicit in what @Wiimer says, but they’re cautiously limiting the overall volume of the system by fixing the vibelink volume at the max they’d ever want to listen.

 

[Burnside]

It’ll be interesting to see if it’s just a new remote, or a new product which comes with a (new) remote.

The indications are it’s the former imho.

 

[Wiimer]

I’d set the Vibelink (which doesn’t have a remote) to 100% and control volume from the Ultra (which does have a remote) for all inputs.

Yes, I am the same way . The amp currently connected to the Ultra is close to 100% volume, and the DAC is also at max.
(However, my amp power is low.)

I just wanted to address @bonashin's concerns .

 

[steadyshot]

For fidelity you need to control volume from a lossless volume control . Wiim ultra volume is not lossless so it makes sense to use the volume control of vibelink amp or your integrated amp

 

[eVo]

For fidelity you need to control volume from a lossless volume control . Wiim ultra volume is not lossless so it makes sense to use the volume control of vibelink amp or your integrated amp

That would mean moving everytime you wanted to adjust the volume, I can't believe that the unit doesn't come with a remote.

 

[harkpabst]

No such thing as a lossless volume control.

 

[canard]

If the potentiometer is indeed analog (not just a voltage control for the amp?), track and stereo type...
you have a very serious interest in using it at its minimum attenuation... least impact on the sound and generally not the place with the most unbalance...