WiiM’s Mini and Pro are the Chromecast Audio’s true successors
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…
