Who sells a power amp with a remote control?
To me it is an integrated amplifier. It has multiple inputs, and volume control on the front.
It must be a hard life if reality conflicts with perception
.Nah, I dismissed marketing BS decades ago.It must be a hard life if reality conflicts with perception
Huh?
That ask for a combination of analog volume control and remote control requires either a relay-operated resistor ladder or a motorized potentiometer, both of which would increase cost quite a bit over the current, passive potentiometer, especially when choosing components that ensure high accuracy, low-level tracking/channel-matching. This is not as trivial an ask as people think.Yes, the WiiM Vibelink Amp doesn't have a remote. It also doesn't have a phono input, it doesn't have a balance control or tone controls, it doesn't have a network streaming module, it doesn't have a display, it doesn't have a subwoofer output, it doesn't have Bluetooth audio (but it does have Bluetooth LE for switching it on and off through the WiiM Home App and for updating its firmware).
And WiiM never claimed otherwise.
Defining it as an "integrated amplifier" and then accusing it of not having mandatory features of an integrated amplifier is completely twisted logic, to say the least.
Could WiiM have provided a remote for volume control and input switching? Sure enough, they could have. They would have had to use different technology than in their other producs, but they could have done it. But they didn't and they never said they would. So in the end the Vibelink Amp really is not the best device to increase the number of inputs the WiiM Ultra has to offer.
PS:
The WiiM Sub Pro and the WiiM Wake-up Light also have no remote. It's 3 out of 12 products (or 25 %).
WiiM had their reasons. Sometimes I wish they had omitted the volume control altogether.
Less discussions about integrated amplifiers ... and misaligned knobs. 
You won’t read any argument from me—I’m literally using a separate DAC, a separate preamp (Topping Pre90), and one separate amp per speaker (Topping B200).WiiM had their reasons. Sometimes I wish they had omitted the volume control altogether.
