Ongoing Beta Beta Testing: Wireless Dolby 5.1 for WiiM Ultra

[iwashi]

Personally, if I were looking for an AVR, I’d buy an AVR due to the support for a wide range of video and audio codecs.

If I already owned an Ultra or Amp Pro, I’d consider adding WiiM’s Dolby digital feature for occasional watching of movies.

Another option might be to use an AVR and feed its rear output into a WiiM Pro (or even a Mini), and group that with a WiiM Amp (or Amp Pro) for the rear surround so you can get wireless connection to rear speakers and arguably get the best of both worlds. When not in use for the back speakers, the front Pro could feed into the AVR for stereo playback of all the music services it supports.

Thank you.

I'll give it some more thought as I'd like to keep the system simple due to installation space issues.

 

[stevemorg]

just picked up a s/h Marantz AVR for a great price so am going to look at using WIIM units to drive the rears - assume I'll need a WIIM Pro plugged into the AVR and a WIIM Amp as a minimum or will a Mini be enough to connect to the rear Amp and speakers

 

[Burnside]

just picked up a s/h Marantz AVR for a great price so am going to look at using WIIM units to drive the rears - assume I'll need a WIIM Pro plugged into the AVR and a WIIM Amp as a minimum or will a Mini be enough to connect to the rear Amp and speakers

A Mini isn’t supported for the rears. Checkout the faq

 

[stevemorg]

I know it’s not supported re. driving the rears in the WIIM 5.1 set up - I wasn’t sure if it was the same if the AVR is doing the decoding

 

[Burnside]

I know it’s not supported re. driving the rears in the WIIM 5.1 set up - I wasn’t sure if it was the same if the AVR is doing the decoding

Apologies, I misread your question. If you’re just wanting the Mini to accept the rear speaker audio into its 3.5mm aux input and then group that with an amp to feed the rear speakers, yes that should be ok. If you already have a Mini, then use that but if you don’t I’d maybe wait for a sale and get a Pro from the point of view of better connectivity and features, even though you may not need all that initially.