Wifi/bluetooth battery speaker?

Wifi/bluetooth battery speaker?

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LotusMartin

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1,116 posts

159 months

Friday 20th September
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Looking for a battery powered wifi and bluetooth speaker that can be used ‘stand alone’ like the Bose Sound Touch? My father is looking to upgrade his sound touch 1 which doesn’t have bluetooth but just can’t seem to find anything decent. The Sound touch 20 or 30 are perfect but discontinued and i’m reluctant to recommend something thats legacy and might go out of support.

Was looking at sonos and denon but I don’t think the battery versions can work independently without a phone?

otherman

2,208 posts

172 months

Friday 20th September
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There are some Marshall ones that sound great.

Boringvolvodriver

10,074 posts

50 months

Friday 20th September
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LotusMartin said:
Looking for a battery powered wifi and bluetooth speaker that can be used ‘stand alone’ like the Bose Sound Touch? My father is looking to upgrade his sound touch 1 which doesn’t have bluetooth but just can’t seem to find anything decent. The Sound touch 20 or 30 are perfect but discontinued and i’m reluctant to recommend something thats legacy and might go out of support.

Was looking at sonos and denon but I don’t think the battery versions can work independently without a phone?
Apologies if I am missing something here although what do mean by work independently since I would have thought that you will require a source device of some description for Bluetooth to work?

Unless your father wants to have a line in input which is becoming increasingly rare!


LotusMartin

Original Poster:

1,116 posts

159 months

Friday 20th September
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The Bose one he has at the moment is wifi and has presets so you can listen to say the radio without connecting a device. For now i’m suggesting a battery powered bluetooth receiver in the AUX port should give him what he needs.

Boringvolvodriver

10,074 posts

50 months

Friday 20th September
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LotusMartin said:
The Bose one he has at the moment is wifi and has presets so you can listen to say the radio without connecting a device. For now i’m suggesting a battery powered bluetooth receiver in the AUX port should give him what he needs.
I see - I have the BOSE 10 so know how that works - just without the flexibility to move it from room to room although I do have 4 of them dotted about the house!

Squadrone Rosso

2,913 posts

154 months

Friday 20th September
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The Marshall one I have in the bathroom is epic. Emberton. There’s a newer version too.

Tony1963

5,325 posts

169 months

Saturday 21st September
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These get very good reviews, from friends too

https://minirigs.co.uk/

thebraketester

14,704 posts

145 months

Saturday 21st September
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Tony1963 said:
These get very good reviews, from friends too

https://minirigs.co.uk/
Can they be used without the proprietary app?

campionissimo

583 posts

131 months

Saturday 21st September
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How about the Pure Woodland? DAB+, Bluetooth, Portable.

muu

6 posts

241 months

Tuesday 1st October
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I've been thinking about these... suitable? https://www.richersounds.com/audio-pro-addon-c5-mk...