WiiM’s Mini and Pro are the Chromecast Audio’s true successors
by Chris Person from The Verge - All Posts on (#68NMZ)
All I wanted was affordable multiroom audio. Instead, I got an ordeal. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge About a year or so ago, I decided to network all my speakers together to be able to do multiroom audio. I gave myself a set of simple parameters. Namely:
- It must be able to work with my own speakers.
- It must be able to work synchronized in multiple rooms.
- It should be relatively affordable.
- It should be easy for house guests to understand.
- It should not lock me exclusively into a proprietary system.
- It should allow me to listen to a podcast or music in multiple rooms from my phone.
- It should (ideally) allow me to stream music from my NAS.
It turns out that this very specific combination of parameters is a recipe for going mad, but one that led me to a little company called WiiM, which makes a perfect little device that just works, is...