🎉 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!

 

[rccarguy]

I think this is probably a safe bet.


It's a pure power amplifier with the added bonus of digital inputs and volume control. That's it.

It's not a pure power amplifier then, it's a stereo integrated amp.

A pure power amp has one input, no volume control/pre amp, and requires an external pre amp.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

So is our concept of a pre amp and a power amp the result of high redefinition or low redefinition?

Traditionally, a power amp had nothing but an on/off switch. A pre amp had input selection and volume control (and maybe some other stuff).

So traditionally, this is an integrated amp. But English is fluid, amd a living language, and usage changes. In the end, as long as you know what you're buying, it doesn't matter.

 

[Burnside]

Yeah, ultimately it’s all pointless pedantry…

 

[QuarryHunslet]

Traditionally, a power amp had nothing but an on/off switch

My Quad 405-2 doesn't have an on/off switch.

 

[slartibartfast]

So is our concept of a pre amp and a power amp the result of high redefinition or low redefinition?

Traditionally, a power amp had nothing but an on/off switch. A pre amp had input selection and volume control (and maybe some other stuff).

So traditionally, this is an integrated amp. But English is fluid, amd a living language, and usage changes. In the end, as long as you know what you're buying, it doesn't matter.

A pre-amp also used to amplify, apart from phono pre-amps they don't now.

 

[Burnside]

My Quad 405-2 doesn't have an on/off switch.

So even more power amp than a power amp?

 

[QuarryHunslet]

So even more power amp than a power amp?

It also has two inputs, RCA Phono, and 4-Pin DIN, although only one should be used.

 

[harkpabst]

It's not a pure power amplifier then, it's a stereo integrated amp.

A pure power amp has one input, no volume control/pre amp, and requires an external pre amp.

So, to sum it up: No.

Times have changed.

 

[Erebus]

Seeing the local store preorders here, disappointingly it appears the Australian price is $599, so no Vibelink for me. Might look at the Fosi ZA3, which is only $170 here currently, if and when I need to update my amp.

 

[s3igell]

For something totally different:
No post in this thread has yet called out that the VibeLink and Ultra are NOT sized the same.
Ultra - 211mm x 200mm x 72mm per diagram - (200x200x72 per literature)
VibeLink - 212.5mm x 200mm x 63mm per diagram - (200x200x63 per literature)
It appears that the Volume Knobs will be "different" - different depth, different edge treatment, different coloration, different function.

Gee, the OCD and Pendants amongst us could fire up an additional 150 posts on a whole new subject...

 

[d6jg]

So is our concept of a pre amp and a power amp the result of high redefinition or low redefinition?

Traditionally, a power amp had nothing but an on/off switch. A pre amp had input selection and volume control (and maybe some other stuff).

So traditionally, this is an integrated amp. But English is fluid, amd a living language, and usage changes. In the end, as long as you know what you're buying, it doesn't matter.

Quite clearly it is a modern Class D integrated amplifier with the addition of an onboard DAC - basically the same functionality as say a Mission 778X but in a smaller case with a slightly higher spec DAC chip, and without the phono stage or any digital out or pre-out. IMHO it is an illogical product for WiiM's range especially as it appears to NOT be the same physical size as an Ultra.

 

[Burnside]

I think those first measurements include the volume knob so that's why they're different

 

[Burnside]

Quite clearly it is a modern Class D integrated amplifier with the addition of an onboard DAC - basically the same functionality as say a Mission 778X but in a smaller case with a slightly higher spec DAC chip, and without the phono stage or any digital out or pre-out. IMHO it is an illogical product for WiiM's range especially as it appears to NOT be the same physical size as an Ultra.

They're both 200mm square - I believe the measurements quoted above include the protruding volume knobs

 

[s3igell]

For something totally different:
No post in this thread has yet called out that the VibeLink and Ultra are NOT sized the same.
Ultra - 211mm x 200mm x 72mm per diagram - (200x200x72 per literature)
VibeLink - 212.5mm x 200mm x 63mm per diagram - (200x200x63 per literature)
It appears that the Volume Knobs will be "different" - different depth, different edge treatment, different coloration, different function.

Gee, the OCD and Pendants amongst us could fire up an additional 150 posts on a whole new subject...

And:
Per the only WiiM-supplied photo of the two vertically stacked, the Knobs DON'T Align Vertically.
The VibeLink Knob is further outboard...

Is that a "Hard NO" in itself??

 

[d6jg]

They're both 200mm square - I believe the measurements quoted above include the volume knob protruding

IMHO being visually matched to the Ultra would be the only real reason to buy one.
If WiiM were to produce a version of the Ultra with No DAC at a significantly lower price than the current Ultra then maybe.

 

[s3igell]

They're both 200mm square - I believe the measurements quoted above include the protruding volume knobs

Correct: Set them Side-By-Side and the Ultra is TALLER. Set them Vertically-Stacked and the Knobs don't Align.

 

[EddNog]

Correct: Set them Side-By-Side and the Ultra is TALLER. Set them Vertically-Stacked and the Knobs don't Align.

Well that's just really unfortunate because the IOM Ultra is the same exact physical size as WiiM Ultra as long as you don't count the knob on the front of the WiiM or any of the ports out back of the IOM. Also, the silver color is a match, but IOM's Space Grey is...not the same as WiiM's Space Grey.

Seems to me that for many people, the IOM Ultra is the product that people want, for the price of VibeLink, and maybe in the actual color of Space Grey WiiM Ultras.

-Ed

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

My Quad 405-2 doesn't have an on/off switch.

You're just being flash now.

I control my pre amp by the power of my own will.

 

[canard]

what is surprising is that starting from a solution which should ultimately satisfy everyone a little... (more complete in the end)
we end up with such discussions or what would seem to be disappointments sometimes...
the two small things which could be regrettable...
if we consider an "integrated with DAC"... :
a motorized potentiometer remote control of modern standards...

and if we consider the approach just power amplifier with DAC... :
a possibility of bypassing this volume part( or even a choice of fixed gains)
(and a design more coordonnate with ultra)

;-)

(it remains to be seen closely the difficulties encountered on the ana entrance... and its quality...)

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

Quite clearly it is a modern Class D integrated amplifier with the addition of an onboard DAC - basically the same functionality as say a Mission 778X but in a smaller case with a slightly higher spec DAC chip, and without the phono stage or any digital out or pre-out. IMHO it is an illogical product for WiiM's range especially as it appears to NOT be the same physical size as an Ultra.

Right, for me (and I want to stress that bit) I'd have been tempted by a unit the same size as the Ultra, trigger in, black glass front, pure (old school) power amp, if it had measured as well as the other power amps out there with which it's in competition.

As I've noted before, there's a thread here for people to say which amp they're using with the Ultra, and I believe the most common combination is a of Fosi Audio Mono v3s.

The Fosi has significantly better SINAD/THD+N, slightly better SNR, very similar distortion-free range, and substantially more power.

And a pair of these monoblocks is £20 cheaper.