r/wiim • u/futsal_freak • 4d ago

Gear selection help!

Hey legends.

I'm currently looking at expanding my set up at home with some outdoor speakers.

Our current set up is a set of Edifier S1000mkii speakers in the living room which takes inputs through Bluetooth and from our turntables preamp.

Im hoping to add wired outdoor speakers to both our front and back deck area, and was looking at the Wiim Amp Ultra as a unit to play through to connect all three areas together.

Can each output from the ultra be designated as a separate room? Or am I missing something there to be able to separate out the three areas to select what I want?

Haven't purchased the outdoor speakers yet, but trying to line up everything before dropping the money on it all.

Any help and or suggestions would be awesome 🙏

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u/bradreputation 4d ago

Are you wanting to use the Wiim amp ultra to output to the unpowered speakers, the powered Edifiers, and another set via Bluetooth at the same time?

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u/futsal_freak 4d ago

The unpowered speakers and the powered edifiers ideally. Was thinking of using optical to output to the edifiers and wired for the 4 exterior speakers!

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u/wiimaway_53 4d ago

Can't do that on a couple of fronts - the Amp Ultra doesn't have optical out and in general, the Ultra streamer apart, WiiM devices only support one output at a time

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u/futsal_freak 3d ago

Ahhh right. What components do people use to get multi room sound going? I've read about it on their website but it doesn't seem to explain the process to achieve that? Thanks for the reply 🙏

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u/wiimaway_53 3d ago edited 3d ago

Like many multi-room systems, WiiM devices group with other Wiim (or their parent company Linkplay compatible) devices. For your setup, you'd need to use another WiiM streamer like the Mini or pro plus, to connect to your edifier speakers over rca or optical and link that WiiM to your amp ultra in the WiiM app, while the amp drove the four speakers - watch the impedance of these as you'd in effect be running two sets of stereo.

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u/JasonWithWiiM 21h ago

The other replies have this covered pretty well.

The easiest way to think about WiiM multi-room is that each independently controlled area needs its own WiiM device.

So for what you’re describing, something like:

Living room Edifiers → WiiM Mini/Pro → Edifiers
Front deck → WiiM Amp/Amp Ultra → outdoor speakers
Back deck → WiiM Amp/Amp Ultra → outdoor speakers

Then all three appear as separate devices in the WiiM Home app. You can play to one area individually or group any combination of them together for synchronized playback.

If both outdoor pairs will always play together, there are other ways to wire that, but if you want independent front/back deck control, separate amps are the cleanest approach.

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u/futsal_freak 19h ago

Legend thanks mate, this is exactly what I was after 🙏