🎉 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!

 

[harkpabst]

More importantly, the VibeLink has measured significantly better performing when using digital input than using its analog input. I'd avoid the analog input in any way possible, in fact, because frankly, the analog input does not perform up to snuff for a $300 class-D amp nowadays.

It's still not clear if that rather mediocre SINAD measured by Amir is really a characteristic of the device or just something that he couldn't get rid of in his particular setup. The measurement is spoiled by hum in the first place. Definitely a point of some (minor) concern, but upcoming technical reviews might be able to clarify this.

Even if the RCA input performs better than measured at Audio Science Review I still see no convincing theoretical reason to prefer it over optical or maybe coax. As I said before, I didn't even take the time to evaluate both connections but went with optical straight away. At least I could not find any obvious deficiencies in sound quality when comparing optical out to the Vibelink Amp with analogue out to my other high performance TP325x based amp.

It's simply very, very good.

 

[EddNog]

I don't dream of the differences between these two dac, consumer , mdg ,q2m serie, , probably just a revision ... and it s very attached to the quality of their implementation ;-)
but if you compare the two face to face it will be interesting and if I'm wrong... I'll make a prompt meaculpa
;-)

and just one" small" element all..and more here in amplifier....

Hence why I said, "technically;" it is better on paper. I leave audibility for another discussion.

Yes, it is a small element. The large difference in SINAD is not.

-Ed

 

[EddNog]

It's still not clear if that rather mediocre SINAD measured by Amir is really a characteristic of the device or just something that he couldn't get rid of in his particular setup. The measurement is spoiled by hum in the first place. Definitely a point of some (minor) concern, but upcoming technical reviews might be able to clarify this.

Even if the RCA input performs better than measured at Audio Science Review I still see no convincing theoretical reason to prefer it over optical or maybe coax. As I said before, I didn't even take the time to evaluate both connections but went with optical straight away. At least I could not find any obvious deficiencies in sound quality when comparing optical out to the Vibelink Amp with analogue out to my other high performance TP325x based amp.

It's simply very, very good.

Does the digital coax connection run a risk of suffering ground-related issues the same way analog RCA does? Obviously, optical avoids this problem, but it introduces potentially increased jitter due to double conversion (from electricity to light and back).

-Ed

 

[s3igell]

Hence why I said, "technically;" it is better on paper. I leave audibility for another discussion.

Yes, it is a small element. The large difference in SINAD is not.

-Ed

It is only "technically better" based on one tester's - Amir - review (a series of tests where he admitted experiencing ground loops and other technical issues). I'd like to back Amir's report with both WiiM's response and other testers' results (@onlyoneme ?), before consigning VibeLink to the "bad implementation" heap.

 

[canard]

Hence why I said, "technically;" it is better on paper. I leave audibility for another discussion.

Yes, it is a small element. The large difference in SINAD is not.

-Ed

So check the data... sometimes the engine of evolution in a range of this type is not always the quality... maybe the cost, the limitation in electricity consumption etc etc

 

[s3igell]

The mini doesn't have a trigger out so If the vibelink will be 'hidden' away at all and the right rear (as you look at it front on) is not easily accessibly then turning the vibelink on may be problematic.

The 12V trigger on the Vibe will allow it to be powered up by an Ultra?
If wish to use the remote (volume) and streaming features of the Ultra and the better DAC in the Vibe, how would you go about that?

The Optical Input (and assumably the Coax Input) will have the existing Digital Input Sensing Auto-On / No Activity Delay Auto-Off that the other WiiM enjoy.

 

[Burnside]

The Optical Input (and assumably the Coax Input) will have the existing Digital Input Sensing Auto-On / No Activity Delay Auto-Off that the other WiiM enjoy.

Not so far for the former, but it does have a non-configurable standby mode

 

[EddNog]

It is only "technically better" based on one tester's - Amir - review (a series of tests where he admitted experiencing ground loops and other technical issues). I'd like to back Amir's report with both WiiM's response and other testers' results (@onlyoneme ?), before consigning VibeLink to the "bad implementation" heap.

I didn’t put it in the bad implementation heap. There are plenty of much worse amps, even costing twice as much. The point is you have two options with the one amp and the better solution is right in front of you, so why use the worse one?

-Ed

 

[harkpabst]

Does the digital coax connection run a risk of suffering ground-related issues the same way analog RCA does?

That depends on whether galvanic isolation is used or not (as @canard has been asking above). I don't know.

Obviously, optical avoids this problem, but it introduces potentially increased jitter due to double conversion (from electricity to light and back).

I tend to support the camp "jitter doesn't matter" with regards to the amount that could pile up here.

 

[canard]

It is mainly up to Wiim engineering to quickly investigate these stories of potential ground loops, and quality of ana input......
that's all...

 

[Burnside]

It is mainly up to Wiim engineering to quickly investigate these stories of potential ground loops, and quality of ana input......
that's all...

I guess if Amirm (‘cause I haven’t seen anyone else mention such) followed the usual advice to submit a ticket thru the more/feedback section of the WiiM Home app, WiiM engineering would be investigating “potential ground loops”. But I’m not holding my breath that he has

 

[canard]

not use of wiim home with this amplifier... no?

 

[Burnside]

Not yet, but that doesn’t prevent the use of it to report issues so that WiiM have it logged and can request further evidence if necessary.

 

[canard]

Not yet, but that doesn’t prevent the use of it to report issues so that WiiM have it logged and can request further evidence if necessary.

I don't have access to Wiim Home if I can't find a machine... well... not really the subject... they were following his review anyway....

 

[hgo58]

I don't have access to Wiim Home if I can't find a machine... well... not really the subject... they were following his review anyway....

You can still provide feedback from the main page in case the WHA can't find any devices.

 

[canard]

Well, that's not really the point.

 

[slartibartfast]

Well, that's not really the point.

What is the point

 

[canard]

It is mainly up to Wiim engineering to quickly investigate these stories of potential ground loops, and quality of ana input......
that's all...

What is the point

;-)

 

[slartibartfast]

;-)

You would think he would have approached WiiM about the issue before publishing his test results, which incidentally were published before the embargo was lifted.

 

[freaknout]

You would think he would have approached WiiM about the issue before publishing his test results, which incidentally were published before the embargo was lifted.

Really? That's a big no no.

I would expect anyone getting a pre launch review item to have on the spot help and assistance. He wouldn't need to go through a ticket system.