Best wireless speakers: wonderful wi-fi speakers for all budgets

[What Hi-Fi?]

Whether you'd class yourself a 'cash splasher' or 'currently coin conscious', these are the best wireless speakers on the market.

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[smithilberry]

None of these do wifi direct thought, right?

What's up with wifi direct not being a thing on portable speakers?

 

[ultraminiature]

None of these do wifi direct thought, right?

What's up with wifi direct not being a thing on portable speakers?

B&O Emerge, Level and Balance all do wifi. You can switch off the BLuetooth and stream from a computer or NAS or cast over wi-fi.

Kef LS50 II and LSX II also have wifi and Ethernet connections. LSX II have HDMI up to 1.411Mbps PCM

 

[smithilberry]

B&O Emerge, Level and Balance all do wifi. You can switch off the BLuetooth and stream from a computer or NAS or cast over wi-fi.

Kef LS50 II and LSX II also have wifi and Ethernet connections. LSX II have HDMI up to 1.411Mbps PCM

I don't think you understood but maybe you did. In case you didn't, WiFi Direct doesn't use a router... You connect directly from device to device without router (similar to Bluetooth).

In other words, if I was in the middle of the woods with just the speaker and my phone, would I be able to connect to it and stream to it using WiFi?

 

[Barrydb]

Looking to put a stereo pair of wireless speakers in my studio - how would you compare the Sonos Era 300's to a pair of AudioLab c10mkii's? And then to the KEF LSX II's? Only concerned with sound, not features.

 

[Norm]

Looking to put a stereo pair of wireless speakers in my studio - how would you compare the Sonos Era 300's to a pair of AudioLab c10mkii's? And then to the KEF LSX II's? Only concerned with sound, not features.

Better get the AudioLab, for studio, don't bother with the rest, each speaker is made for a specific purpose, you won't have a one size fits all situation.

 

[Bitdmanrob]

Any chance What Hifi are going to review the Orange Box wireless speaker... Looks like it could be decent?

 

[Jesskajs]

Sonos sound great, but since splurging on a speaker from them I haven’t been able to get it connected at all. A little digging and it seems that when they do app updates they don’t test them before launching. They have a raft of complaints against their latest update (April 2024) that they don’t appear to respond to, so a bunch of people have a very expensive, albeit pretty, paper weight.