Audio Pro C5 Mkii Wireless Speaker | Compact, High Fidelity, Multiroom Bluetooth Speaker For Outdoor
Audio Pro C5 MKII Wireless Speaker | Compact, High Fidelity, Multiroom Bluetooth Speaker for Outdoor, Home, Camping, Travel, Beach | Built-in Chromecast, Compatible w/Airplay 2, Spotify | Grey
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- GREAT HI-FI SOUND: A small and easy-to-place multiroom stereo speaker. With stunning dynamics and deep bass in abundance, this small Bluetooth speaker performs bigger than it looks. The Addon C5 MK II is the new, improved version of the C5. It offers AirPlay 2, Google Cast, and SpotifyConnect, and an even greater sound than its predecessor.
- MULTIROOM FLEXIBILITY: The multiroom function allows you to play the same music throughout your house. Group two of them in a left/right setup and the concert will be on stage in your home, literally. Play all together. Or not. You choose. Multiroom sound and multi-person usage.
- PLAY ANYTHING WIRELESSLY: Play music wirelessly from a turntable or CD player. The speaker has an RCA sound input to connect to other audio gear. A turntable/CD player or other digital sources can be connected to the speaker and then played wirelessly to other speakers in your system. You can turn the music up in your backyard if you have a barbecue party, picnic, or pool party!
- WIFI PRESETS - PLAY DIRECT: No need to start fiddling with your phone, just push and play. Save your favorite radio station or playlist to a button simply by pressing it while playing content. With Airplay, Spotify Connect, and Bluetooth you can play all your music any way you like.
- QUICK & EASY SETUP: Audio Pro App Connectivity! Simply connect it to your home Wifi network once and you're good to go. Add additional wireless speakers over time.
Brand : Audio Pro
Category : Electronics,Portable Audio & Video,Portable Speakers & Docks,Portable Bluetooth Speakers
Rating : 4.3
Price : US $350
Review Count : 240
SalesRank : 0
Audio Pro C5 MKII Wireless Speaker | Compact, High Fidelity, Multiroom Bluetooth Speaker for Outdoor, Home, Camping, Travel, Beach | Built-in Chromecast, Compatible w/Airplay 2, Spotify | Grey
- Just got this yesterday.First, the good stuff: This sounds absolutely wonderful. I am far from an audiophile, but I am pretty good at pretending. I was worried that the bass would overwhelm, it does not. The sound is rich and balanced. I listened to Dave Brubeck and George Winston and they sounded great. I have yet to do a deep dive across music genres. I also listened to the spoken word (radio) and it was clear and again balanced.I also love the looks of this speaker. Your mileage may vary.I could not be happier that I can connect my digital audio player (with all those FLAC files) directly to the speaker. The same for other equipment, e.g. TV. From the manual I can apparently connect my turntable to the speaker, I am not convinced that will work without a pre-amp. However, I did not buy the speaker for my turntable.Now for the truly awful. It took me hours and hours to set up. I have a brand new Asus gigabit dual band router as well as a brand new Netgear modem. I get download speeds close to 600 Mbps, so speed is not an issue. I set my speaker less than a foot from my router and modem and had my Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G practically resting on top of the speaker. All of this is to say I have pretty good gear and was well within range for an easy set up. It took hours and hours to set up the application. I tried switching from wifi play to input play (wifi play is correct.) I tried the alternative set up. I tried my old Galaxy 7. I tried my tablet. I tried changing my router from auto to n only, then to legacy. I tried connecting the speaker to my home network on one phone - so I knew it was connected, and it was visible in my network, and tried to set up the app on my other phone. I tried and tried. I even tried an ethernet hard connection before trying to connect through the app. After hours and multiple attempts I set up a guest SSID with a password without special characters and was able to connect. What frustration. Then, when I turned my tablet off and back on I had go through the set up again. Easier this time. Then I had to set up again on my main phone. Again, easier.The app itself is poor. I cannot play Spotify through the speaker unless I use bluetooth outside of the audio pro app or pay for premium service. TuneIn, which is my go-to for radio, is not the same TuneIn downloaded to my phone because one of the stations I listen to daily is not supported on the version in the Audio Pro app. I cannot add a new app to the Audio Pro app - I ( listen to podcasts via Podcast Republic.) Now, the workaround is to listen to those through Bluetooth- which I was trying to avoid.None of the above is a deal breaker, what might prompt me to return this item is the fact that the power plug falls out at the slightest nudge. I have this on my nightstand and have knocked the power cord out twice in 24 hours.Bottom line, this sounds extraordinary, my experience setting up might be exceptional, and the app is lousy.Update:Weeks later and I have packed it up to return. This makes me sad because it sounds fabulous and I really like the way it looks. I am pleased that it offers wi-fi, blue tooth, and 3.5 mm (did I get that size right?) connections. I do not see anything else I want with all of those options.The problem with the plug disappeared once it was close to stationary. Call it user error.So, why am I returning it? Multiple glitches, and I was very close to living with them.Before blaming my network, a speed test showed 400+Mbps download.Two of the preset buttons never lit up. Sometimes they worked and sometimes it took multiple tries to get them to work.Blue tooth had similar issues. Sometimes it would connect and sometimes it would not. There were multiple instances that I could see it was connected in my phone independent of an app as well as on the app itself. The lines showing changes in volume would go up and down. However, there was no sound. Sometimes blue tooth worked immediately, sometimes it took multiple times. Plus, there is a delay for the sound which did not help.I was close to living with all the glitches because I liked it that much. I hit my breaking point when I lost the connection to my network and it would not reconnect. The disconnect happened mid-day with no loss of power and no loss of the internet. I was not ready to play with it for hours to get it reconnected. I will now delete the special SSID I set up to make this work the first time around.Really, I am disappointed. I do not know if I just got a bad item or if these problems are more wide spread.
- I ordered these because I\'m working from home all the time now (like many people) and my favorite work area was one of the few in the house with no decent audio. Our Sonos Play 5 has been extremely frustrating with its wifi dropout issues; evidently they\'re well known for poor performance with anything other than strong wifi, which I wish I had known before I bought them. Anyhow, I wanted the C10 but couldn\'t find one in stock anywhere, and thus took a chance on the \"lesser\" C5. If I had paid attention to the measurements and realized how small it is I wouldn\'t have ordered it, and that would have been a huge mistake! The sound is amazing and the features are excellent, including built-in Bluetooth. It has EQ features which I\'ve played with a bit but ended up leaving at defaults because that sounds great; at first I thought it was a little boomy and needed less bass but I\'ve changed my mind. Our wifi is worse on the first floor than I realized, and the C5 will drop occasionally, but unlike the Play 5 it doesn\'t lose its mind and refuse to ever play anything again -- it just picks up again when it can, usually in a few seconds. However, when I do carry it down to the first floor I use Bluetooth instead of wifi, thanks to the dropout, and it\'s flawless. I\'m pretty sure there\'s a C10 in my future, perhaps replacing the Sonos. I know there are features on the C5 I haven\'t even explored (presets, Spotify connectivity, inputs I don\'t need, ...). I\'m well and truly sold on Audio Pro.
- I didn\'t have much difficulty in connecting to wifi unlike other reviewers, but at first, I felt the sound quality was mediocre at best. That changed as I kept playing it with the volume set high (at about 75%). Maybe it needs some break-in period and now the sound is great. But I get stuttering from time to time that is often enough to be annoyed. And it sometimes get completely disconnected for no reason. But when it works, it sounds great. It only can work with the 2.4GHz wifi that I rarely use, so I have to use another phone using that wifi channel, which is inconvenient. I tried a Bluetooth connection, and the sound is noticeably weaker, and the sound quality is inferior even comparing to other smaller bluetooth speakers.I ordered a Drumfire D1 to set up multi-room connections. The D1 was not turned on initially, and when it is turned on eventually after leaving it for a while, I was not able to make a wifi connection no matter how hard I tried. I connected to Bluetooth instead, which was successful, but it did not make any sound from the speaker. I even did a wire connection using the Aux port, but it did not make any sound, which confirmed that this unit is defective. I question the quality control of the company. I am sorry and hate to do this, but I will have to return both the units.
- I was hesitant to try the Audio Pro multiroom system because of the complaints about the app, but I’m glad I went ahead and gave them a shot. The C5 sounds great for it’s size and setting it up was incredibly easy. I was able to have it linked with the C10, link 1, and A10 in a few minutes with music through the whole house. The app is nothing flashy, but I haven’t had any issues with it at all. I do wish there were more advanced EQ settings but that’s not a huge deal. Overall a great system and an excellent speaker.
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