Inexpensive Streaming

I have both a Wiim Mini and Pro. Both are excellent buys at the price, and even more impressive, are one of the easiest to set up streamers out there.  They aren't perfect, but here's my evaluaton of the pros and cons.

Pros: great price, compact, one piece and far easier to setup and get working than many other players. Built in Burr-Brown PCM5121 is respectable, but it is easy to use with any external DAC that has coax or optical inputs (Mini supports optical only, Pro supports both.)  Supports up to 24/192K streams. Allows connection to a wide number of streaming services. Has volume control and play/pause buttons on the device itself.  Integrates with Amazon Alexa devices.

Cons: no USB output, no display option on the device itself and the supplied control software is quite basic and missing some desirable features (clear queue, add whole albums to a current playlist, etc.) but the software is periodically updated. Control software is currently iPhone, Mac OS, Android and Windows.

is pro better sound quality than mini, more features, or both ?

Wiim Pro - the industry disruptor.

Have been using it since release in December. It sounds great and I use a 5v LPS with it.

Recently, I was fortunate to get the Verizon fiber optic network installed and that just elevated the performance.

Happy Trails!

+1 wiim mini. Disruptive product

Another impressive streamer at that price is the WiiM Mini, both digital and analog output with volume control built in for the analog output.

https://wiimhome.com/Overview.html

Tidy little package. 

Old first generation Sonos connects still work and can be found for less than $100 as well.  They will even function as a ROON endpoints. I got three of them running as endpoints that I have picked up for super cheap over the years.