WiiM’s first smart speaker looks like a HomePod for audiophiles

The WiiM Sound looks inspired by the Apple HomePod but with a circular touchscreen connected its side. | Image: Wiim

WiiM has announced 3 caller wireless audiophile devices including the brand’s first astute talker called the Sound with a plan that looks inspired by the Apple HomePod. The talker is joined by the company’s first sub-woofer called the Sub Pro that pumps retired 250W of bass, and the WiiM Amp Ultra, a caller amplifier that tin watercourse straight from services similar Spotify, Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, and Pandora.

The WiiM Sound features playback controls connected the apical arsenic good arsenic a 1.8-inch high-res touchscreen connected the broadside that tin besides beryllium utilized for navigating playlists and menus, selecting presets, oregon conscionable displaying medium creation for whatever’s presently playing. Using a four-inch woofer and “dual-balanced mode radiator tweeters” the Sound delivers 100W of powerfulness oregon much with 2 of them configured arsenic a near and close stereo pair.

The talker uses a built-in microphone to measurement the acoustics successful a country and optimize its dependable output for the space, but it tin besides beryllium customized utilizing a 10-band EQ oregon 1 of 24 antithetic preset dependable profiles. With Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and an ethernet port, the WiiM Sound tin watercourse from implicit 20 antithetic euphony services oregon from apps connected different devices utilizing Chromecast, Spotify Connect, TIDAL Connect, DLNA, oregon Alexa Cast.

Hands-free cognition is made imaginable done Alexa, Google Assistant, oregon an included wireless distant that supports dependable commands. WiiM expects the Sound to beryllium disposable sometime successful the 3rd 4th of 2025 done Amazon and “select retailers,” but says it won’t uncover pricing for immoderate of the products it announced contiguous until they launch.

If WiiM’s astute talker doesn’t present capable low-end show for your ears, it tin beryllium paired with the caller Sub Pro which features an eight-inch operator and a Class-D amplifier that works successful the 25-200Hz frequence range.

Connectivity includes Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, ethernet, and an RCA input for connecting to location theatre gear, portion the Sub Pro offers the aforesaid customizability arsenic the Sound astute talker with automatic country correction and a 10-band EQ disposable done WiiM’s mobile app.

Wiim calls its caller WiiM Amp Ultra its “most refined streaming amplifier yet.” Featuring a unibody aluminum chassis with a 3.5-inch touchscreen connected the front, the amp uses audiophile-grade components including an ESS ES9039Q2M Sabre DAC and tin present 100W of powerfulness per transmission to thrust up to 4 passive speakers simultaneously.

Dual antennas assistance guarantee accelerated and unchangeable streaming implicit a Wi-Fi 6E oregon Bluetooth 5.3 connection, adjacent portion listening to high-res euphony astatine 24-bit/192kHz quality. Through the WiiM Home app the WiiM Amp Ultra tin watercourse from respective fashionable services including Spotify and Amazon Music portion enactment for Google Cast, Alexa Cast, DLNA, Spotify Connect, TIDAL Connect, DLNA, and Roon facilitates streaming from different apps. 

The amp besides supports dependable controls done Alexa, Google Assistant, and its bundled wireless remote, includes an HDMI ARC larboard with enactment for Dolby Digital decoding, and has a dedicated subwoofer output truthful it tin beryllium paired with WiiM’s caller Sub Pro.