This music streamer just became the center piece of my home HiFi

I’m lucky enough to get to try some extremely impressive pieces of audio gear thanks to my job. Be that some mad wired headphones milled out of aluminum, brass, and steel, to some desk speakers that somehow manage a better job at spacialising 3D audio better than even the best smart speakers, my experience with sound gear is something I still struggle to comprehend myself.

That does mean that the sound equipment I use in my everyday life, which helps me relax, leads me through reading sessions, and guides my critical listening time, has to either be really good, or really special — and I’ve found a great piece of budget HiFi gear that’s become an incredibly important part of my own setup.

This is the Wiim Ultra, a $349 box of tricks that hooks up to my existing HiFi system and lets me stream music

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