🎉 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]

You are free to call it what you want. WiiM and I are enjoying the same level of freedom, though.

Your comment regarding HT bypass makes currently no sense to me, because power amps never had and never needed HT bypass.

So, one could call the Vibelink Amp an integrated amp lacking remote control, HT bypass, phono input, tape outputs, a mono switch, balance and tone controls ... or just accept what it really is.

It's an integrated amplifier, and if it doesn't have HT bypass then it can't be used as a power amplifier. That alone disqualifies it as a power amplifier

I had a Audiolab 8000S. It was a stereo integrated amplifier, but because it had a HT bypass it can be used as a power amplifier as well as a stereo integrated amplifier, or stereo pre amplifier, or in a pre power system.

It isn't an AVR so why would it have HT bypass?

AVR's don't have HT bypass. But some stereo pre amps or stereo integrated amps do, so you can have a two box solution.

 

[harkpabst]

It isn't an AVR so why would it have HT bypass?

It's not necessarily the AVR that needs HT bypass, but a pair of smart speakers or a stereo amplifier intended to drive just the front speakers often (but not always) can have one of their inputs (usually RCA) into HT bypass mode. So, the volume is bypassed and the AVR is in full control of the volume.

Turn the knob on the Vibelink Amp fully clockwise and you have just that.

For those who want to constantly switch between RCA (for AVR integration) and optical and coaxial, using sourcesw ith no volume control in their own, this means permanently adjusting the volume. You need to walk up.tonthe Vibelink Amp to do that anyway, because ... well ... no remote. Neither for volume control nor input switching.

Can still be used as a power amp, of course.

 

[rccarguy]

It's not necessarily the AVR that needs HT bypass, but a pair of smart speakers or a stereo amplifier intended to drive just the front speakers often (but not always) can have one of their inputs (usually RCA) into HT bypass mode. So, the volume is bypassed and the AVR is in full control of the volume.

Turn the knob on the Vibelink Amp fully clockwise and you have just that.

For those who want to constantly switch between RCA (for AVR integration) and optical and coaxial, using sourcesw ith no volume control in their own, this means permanently adjusting the volume. You need to walk up.tonthe Vibelink Amp to do that anyway, because ... well ... no remote. Neither for volume control nor input switching.

Can still be used as a power amp, of course.

LOL nope.

 

[harkpabst]

It's an integrated amplifier, and if it doesn't have HT bypass then it can't be used as a power amplifier. That alone disqualifies it as a power amplifier

Since it isn't an integrated amplifier it doesn't need HT bypass, because it's a power amp and can be used as such without HT bypass.

You can go on forever childishly repeating what you want to believe. I made my point, the stage is all yours.

 

[rccarguy]

Since it isn't an integrated amplifier it doesn't need HT bypass, because it's a power amp and can be used as such without HT bypass.

You can go on forever childishly repeating what you want to believe. I made my point, the stage is all yours.

It is an integrated amplifier, or a modern "digital integrated amplifier" since it has a DAC. Not all integrated amplifiers have HT bypass but the better ones do, so you use it with a AVR to power the L/R speakers.

And no, it's not a power amplifier.

Power amplifiers don't have DAC's, ADC, or pre amplifiers in them.

I have about 8 power amplifiers. They have a power switch on the front. On the back they have one RCA or XLR input, and speaker level outputs. You need an external pre amp into them.

No volume control, no DAC, no ADC, no pre amp.

Now if wiim offer a "fixed gain input" then it could possibly used as a power amplifier, but it's still a integrated amp in power amp mode, like a Audiolab 8000S.

 

[Burnside]

Yet more pointless pedantry

 

[onlyoneme]

It's not a power amplifier.

Right, it's a pure power amp

 

[Mr Ee]

I see some requests to comment on the vibelink's analog vs digital inputs.
Unfortunately I've had virtually no free time the last few days to have a proper listen, but on a brief listen I did last week with an ultra analog out it was evident to me that in that system for some reason the difference between using 1v and 2v line was quite significant.
2v sounded much, much better, and not just "cos it was louder. Turning it up at 1v was not as good as 2v at any volume.

 

[kevinisin!]

Looks like a nice product. Love the flush speaker terminals and the form factor.

That said, why claim that it's designed to pair with the Wiim Ultra and have it look so different? The only commonality is the size, but it looks like it came out of a different factory!

 

[EddNog]

Looks like a nice product. Love the flush speaker terminals and the form factor.

That said, why claim that it's designed to pair with the Wiim Ultra and have it look so different? The only commonality is the size, but it looks like it came out of a different factory!

Size isn’t even common since Ultra is taller than VibeLink, and the knobs don’t line up when stacked

-Ed

 

[wiimamp user]

Power amp, integrated amp..
But what has this amp to offer.. in stead of discussing a name..
It a lot..I would say ..a lot.. that this vibelink amp has to offer.., as we are familiar with Wiim products.

But even more importantly one could say is how wiim carefully choose their components to match with the ultra,or pro..and how this combination sounds . It's a match visually and sound wise.

Ok if you have your own amp one have to make a choice Here but that it differently for each customer..

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

LOL nope.

Erm...yep.

There are more and more power amps out there with a volume control where there's either a switch to disable said control, or an instruction to turn the volume control to full if not wanting to use it.

Not only power amps. My Topping EX5 is a DAC/headphone amp. The instructions are clear that, if you want to use it in 'DAC mode' you just turn the volume to full and control it from elsewhere.

On power amps with a switch to disable the volume control, there's no difference between volume at full power and volume control disabled.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

This discussion is totally pointless. In particular since WiiM call it a power amplifier.

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Language changes over time.

What rcaguy is saying is that he grew up with one usage and is unable to move on and accept that usage has changed.

 

[freaknout]

One of the problems with using the Vibe with an Ultra as the preamp (which makes sense if you wish to use sub, remote, room correction, turntable, etc) is that you have two preamps in the circuit. That's not ideal and best avoided.

I think we may be getting a bit confused because of the way it's been presented. It's clearly a nicely designed integrated amp that could be used with ANY source. It makes sense for WiiM to demo and present with the Ultra because that's their best source, but perhaps not so much for a customer who has an Ultra and really just needs a dedicated power amp (I know I know the Vibe can be used in that context but that's doesn't mean it's the best solution, as per my example in the previous para).

 

[canard]

What a waste of time..
I think that each other has understood it s approach etc and will judge if it corresponds to his needs....
these discussions are not producing anything constructive..
we can perhaps move on to something else?

 

[harkpabst]

Language changes over time.

I'm totally fine with everyone who says: This product is not for me/not what I expected/not something I like/doesn't look good. Each to their own. Just don't base that judgement on a purely formal definition ...

One of the problems with using the Vibe with an Ultra as the preamp (which makes sense if you wish to use sub, remote, room correction, turntable, etc) is that you have two preamps in the circuit. That's not ideal and best avoided.

You might actually be overthinking this. "Less is more" can be a good approach, "less than necessary" not so much. There are not really preamplification stages in both units. Nowadays, a preamp usually doesn't need to amplify the incoming signal. If anything, there might be a zero gain buffer stage, ensuring a constant and high input impedance.

This is the same as it's been with any traditional pre/power amp combo.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

One of the problems with using the Vibe with an Ultra as the preamp (which makes sense if you wish to use sub, remote, room correction, turntable, etc) is that you have two preamps in the circuit. That's not ideal and best avoided.

Right. Hi-fi has come a long way. The original idea of audiophile hi-fi was to present the original signal as faithfully as possible, with the exception of amplifying it so it was large enough to drive speakers. And, in that pursuit, to remove everything unnecessary from the signal path.

But a lot of things have moved on. Firstly, we can now make all the things that go in any signal path to a much higher standard, and more cheaply. Secondly, we now know just what levels of noise and distortion humans can and can’t hear. Thirdly, we subsequently know what we’re looking for, and can measure equipment to see whether that noise and distortion is audible.

And the bottom line is, with preamps, they’re not really an issue, especially with the volume pot turned to full.

So whilst removing things from the signal path is a great idea in itself, it’s not a problem if the item you introduce is low enough noise and distortion not to hear.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

I'm totally fine with everyone who says: This product is not for me/not what I expected/not something I like/doesn't look good. Each to their own. Just don't base that judgement on a purely formal definition ...
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Totally. Agree. I don’t mind if you call this a pre amp, a power amp, or Arthur Shagnasty’s Magical WiiM Enloudener.

A rose by any other name…

 

[Alexandr_2023]

interesting product, need to consider buying)

 

[EddNog]

Totally. Agree. I don’t mind if you call this a pre amp, a power amp, or Arthur Shagnasty’s Magical WiiM Enloudener.

A rose by any other name…

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