Simple speaker for the bedroom. Wake-up Light?

[d00]

Hi!
I wanted to ask you what you would recommend to the bedroom as a single speaker for the cabinet, where you can play calm music from your phone, such as classic quiet sleep. Something simple, but preferably it can also do for a night light.

I saw a WiiM product called Wake-up Light, but there are not very good reviews on Amazon. Maybe something else? I have an Apple ecosystem, maybe an Apple speaker will be a better solution?

WiiM Wake-up Light | Your Perfect Bedside Companion

Experience mornings like never before with the WiiM Wake-up Light. Let it be your perfect bedside companion, awakening you gently and setting the tone for the day ahead.

wiimhome.com

Thank you for your help!

 

[Wiimer]

Hi!
I wanted to ask you what you would recommend to the bedroom as a single speaker for the cabinet, where you can play calm music from your phone, such as classic quiet sleep. Something simple, but preferably it can also do for a night light.

I saw a WiiM product called Wake-up Light, but there are not very good reviews on Amazon. Maybe something else? I have an Apple ecosystem, maybe an Apple speaker will be a better solution?

WiiM Wake-up Light | Your Perfect Bedside Companion

Experience mornings like never before with the WiiM Wake-up Light. Let it be your perfect bedside companion, awakening you gently and setting the tone for the day ahead.

wiimhome.com

Thank you for your help!

Hi

In my opinion, the WiiM Wake-Up Lite is a zombie. The firmware has (probably) not been updated at all and it is a living corpse. It is only my opinion, but I don't recommend it.

That does'nt mean that there are other products that I can recommend. Sorry.
If you don't mind not having Light, the WiiM Sound speaker will be released soon.

Also I have never used it, but have you considered IKEA SYMFONISK?

 

[Burnside]

A small airplay compatible or even Bluetooth speaker may meet your requirements. I still have my small Anker Soundcore speaker and it’s great for its size/cost

 

[mrehorst]

I use a Wiim Amp Pro in my bedroom with a pair of decent bookshelf speakers on the night stands on either side of the bed. It's like having headphones on except you can roll over! I use the Wiim Home sleep timer and play either a music playlist selected for going to sleep, or recordings of crickets and tree frogs that I made 20+ years ago, all served by LMS. For the tree frogs recordings, I turn on "repeat" so it plays over and over until the sleep timer shuts the system down.

 

[d00]

I use a Wiim Amp Pro in my bedroom with a pair of decent bookshelf speakers on the night stands on either side of the bed. It's like having headphones on except you can roll over! I use the Wiim Home sleep timer and play either a music playlist selected for going to sleep, or recordings of crickets and tree frogs that I made 20+ years ago, all served by LMS. For the tree frogs recordings, I turn on "repeat" so it plays over and over until the sleep timer shuts the system down.

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Thanks for the idea and presentation of how it works for you. Honestly? We don't have that much space to build it like that. I wanted something small, simple, active, not passive. I think I'll wait for WiiM Sound. Alternatively, I'll take the Apple HomePod Mini.

 

[d6jg]

I use a Wiim Amp Pro in my bedroom with a pair of decent bookshelf speakers on the night stands on either side of the bed. It's like having headphones on except you can roll over! I use the Wiim Home sleep timer and play either a music playlist selected for going to sleep, or recordings of crickets and tree frogs that I made 20+ years ago, all served by LMS. For the tree frogs recordings, I turn on "repeat" so it plays over and over until the sleep timer shuts the system down.

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I like that apart from the speakers. To do it properly I’d put speakers into the ceiling and add an Amazon Echo so you can voice control the WiiM Amp to play/stop and add Alarms etc

 

[mrehorst]

Yeah... no. The Wiim Amp Pro comes with a BT remote with a mic so you can talk to google or alexa. I don't want a microphone monitoring my bedroom activity and sending it to amazon or google so I don't use that feature.

I put the speakers on the nightstands because I want them close to the bed so they don't have to play loudly, and so I don't have to run wires all over the place. The amp is going to go under the bed. There will be a power cord to the outlet under the bed, and two 6' runs of speaker wire, mostly under the bed and behind the nightstands. Clean, simple, and entirely out of sight.

The headboard is steel, so I added a strip of magnetic tape to the back of the remote control and keep it stuck on the headboard. If I want to adjust volume or turn the thing off it's there when I need it.

 

[Burnside]

The Wiim Amp Pro comes with a BT remote with a mic so you can talk to google or alexa.

The mic only interfaces to Alexa.

I don't want a microphone monitoring my bedroom activity and sending it to amazon or google so I don't use that feature.

The microphone isn’t enabled unless you deliberately press the button on the remote.