Integrating with old hifi in limited space

[nardberg]

Hi, as above, I have an old Arcam Alpha 7 Amp + CD (from 1996!), an old turntable plus some speakers that are too bulky for our situation now, all currently packed away in the attic. Due to a toddler in the house and not being able to trail cables or have speakers on stands, I'm considering a setup where I put my old hifi in a corner with a Wiim device attached, then on the minimal space I have either side of the TV, some small active wireless speakers. Is this viable that the Wiim could take an audio input from the old amp and send it to the speakers over Wifi? If so, could it also function as a streamer with little difficulty i.e. changing the input from the external amp to its own streaming function and sending that to the speakers? Hopefully that makes sense.

I've also considered just having a Wiim amp with some passive speakers on the TV stand but obviously would lose my old system as a potential input.

Everything needs to be small and partner- and toddler-friendly so a Wiim streamer of some sorts and small powered speakers would be ideal if viable.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Mr Ee]

Welcome.

Yes, the wiim could take the arcam analog ouput as its input and send it to wireless speakers, but your lovely arcam 7 is then really nothing more than a source switcher between cd and turntable, and you could plug one of those directly into a wiim (assuming TT has a line out).
Wiims (maybe not all models?) can do dlna casting, but there still seem to be some issues with that for some reported here. Any (non-wiim) speakers you choose would need to support dnla casting.

Is it really not possible to have speaker cable from the arcam to some passive speakers by the tv?
That's how my arcam alpha 6 is set up
Tv optical to wiim pro, optical to dac, dac to alpha 6, to speakers. Can then have tv or streaming to speakers.