Category: Wireless Speakers
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iHome iW3 Portable AirPlay Speaker
iHome launched their long anticipated iW3 AirPlay speaker. The iW3 is the latest addition to iHome’s growing list of AirPlay enabled speakers. It features a rechargeable lithium-ion battery for portability, USB dock, aux-in and IR remote. For sound, it has SRS WOW HD for clarity and deep rich bass along with Reson8 speaker chambers for…
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BeoPlay A9 Premium Active Speaker System
B&O PLAY by Bang & Olufsen has introduced a new AirPlay alternative for party people with money to spare: the BeoPlay A9 Premium Active Speaker System. Reminiscent of those bolt-on satellite dishes (that used to be all the rage until all the free channels got locked down), the BeoPlay A9 is designed to deliver room-filling…
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Libratone Zipp Portable Speaker
Libratone has announced what it claims is the first and only device to deliver AirPlay connectivity without requiring a Wi-Fi network: the Libratone Zipp portable speaker. Using the company’s new PlayDirect™ technology, the Libratone Zipp creates its own direct connection between any compatible device (such as an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, or iTunes-equipped computer) making…
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Bowers & Wilkins A5 and A7 wireless speakers
As manufacturers scramble to accommodate Apple’s iPhone 5 with the next generation of Lightening connector-equipped docks, Bowers & Wilkins offers an elegant alternative: forgo the dock entirely. The new Bowers & Wilkins A5 and A7 wireless music systems are designed to deliver high-quality audio, simply and discretely. Brought to you by the folks who created…
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Paradigm Aera Wireless Speaker
Paradigm Electronics celebrates 30 years in the business with the addition of the Aera™ wireless AirPlay speaker to its SHIFT series of audio products. Boasting the “fastest AirPlay setup in the industry,” the Aera speaker incorporates two 1” aluminum dome tweeters and two 4-inch composite cone woofers, powered by a Class-D amplifier to deliver 30…
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Bose SoundLink Air
Bose has announced an AirPlay addition to its SoundLink line of mobile speakers: the SoundLink Air Digital Music System. The SoundLink Air represents the second generation of the company’s wireless product family and along with its sibling, the SoundLink Bluetooth Mobile Speaker II, should deliver even better sound thanks to improved neodymium transducers and better…
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Onkyo ABX–N300 wireless speaker dock
Sometimes deploying the latest tech just isn’t enough. Sometimes you need both form and function, beauty and brains, style and substance, and what better way to convey your own unique taste, elegance and refinement than by buying and displaying cool stuff? Like the Onkyo ABX–N300 iOnly Stream wireless speaker dock. Based on Onkyo’s decades of…
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Denon Cocoon speaker docks
Denon has joined the Apple AirPlay speaker party with two new offerings: the Cocoon Home and Cocoon Portable speaker docks. Featuring an organic “futuristic” style (that would not look out of place in Woody Allen’s 1973 sci-fi “Sleeper” home) the Cocoon Home balances elegantly on a polished metal base that conceals multiple input options including…
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Apple TV + iOS 6 = AirPlay Out
Apple TV may soon have the ability to give as well as receive. According to FlatpanelsHD, the latest beta version of the forthcoming iOS 6 update adds the capability to send audio from Apple TV to AirPlay-enabled speakers. This is a nice addition–soon you’ll be able to stream tunes directly from Internet radio or your…
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An AirPlay Speaker from Bose?
An FCC filing has revealed a possible new AirPlay offering from the mighty Bose. A product label from the FCC site identifies the forthcoming Bose SoundLink® Air digital music system as including Wi-Fi connectivity (and hopefully that “Air” in the name indicates a willingness to play nice with all things “AirPlay”). Why is this significant?…