Polk Omni S2r Rechargeable Compact Wireless Music Streaming Speaker With Wifi (Discontinued By Manuf
Polk Omni S2R Rechargeable Compact Wireless Music Streaming Speaker with WiFi (Discontinued by Manufacturer)
- Take the S2R on the road with up to 6 hours of battery and Bluetooth music streaming included. The S2R is the perfect companion to take your music wherever you go
- Use your WiFi network to stream music from your phone, tablet or computer with the Free Polk Omni App. Stream Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or your own music collection
- Splash and humidity resistant with a tough metal grille, this speaker can take on the great outdoors. Extended range WiFi antenna and Bluetooth streaming give you coverage wherever you go
- Music in every room. Start with one speaker and add music to more rooms with the Polk Omni Collection of speakers. Stream the same music to every room or stream different songs to different rooms
Brand : Polk Audio
Category : Electronics,Portable Audio & Video,Portable Speakers & Docks,Portable Bluetooth Speakers
Rating : 3.6
Price : US $149.95
Review Count : 71
SalesRank : 0
Polk Omni S2R Rechargeable Compact Wireless Music Streaming Speaker with WiFi (Discontinued by Manufacturer)
- Let me start by saying this is a well-built speaker that puts out great sound. It\'s particularly nice to have a rechargeable wireless speaker that\'s part of a larger whole-home system. This is one area where Sonos falls short. They really need to release a rechargeable Play 1.Now, though this speaker puts out great sound, I was disappointed by the technology that supports it. The iPhone and Android Apps are functional but a bit unwieldy and not entirely intuitive (and I\'m an IT professional).The Windows Play-Fi app was a little more functional and would allow the redirection of any audio on your PC (Netflix, YouTube, etc) to the speakers. It was annoying that the Free version of the software wouldn\'t allow streaming to more than one speaker at a time. For that, you need to buy the *premium* version of the software for $15. That, or if you register your speaker(s), you get sent a one-time activation code for the premium version. I found that when I registered my second speaker separately, I was NOT sent an additional activation code. I found the activation code I received wouldn\'t work on my second PC. Some of us have more than one PC, y\'know -- are you listening, Polk? Also, if you need to reload your OS and re-install, you\'re sort of S.O.L. Conceivably, you could use something like 10-minute email (or similar) for temp email addresses to register fake serial numbers to get extra reg. codes. This is a lot of work. They should just give the darned software away.Now that I\'ve vented, I\'ll continue. I really REALLY wanted to like these speakers and feel like a shrewd consumer for getting something comparable to Sonos for 30% less. I just never reached that level of satisfaction. These speakers required frequent reboots and would sometimes fall out of sync, with a significant echo from room to room.These won\'t be difficult for someone that\'s reasonably tech-savvy to set up or support. I\'ve noticed that my *wired* home-theater speakers just work without being finicky of requiring any fiddling. Always. Period. Even my Acoustic Research wireless speakers don\'t require any TLC. Instead, they just sound like crap, motivating me to upgrade. You shouldn\'t need to reboot the speakers and they shouldn\'t be finicky.The Polk system was just annoying. I bought three speakers (1 rechargeable and two standard S2s) as well as a P1 to presumably use as a source, utilizing the aux-in (so I could stream CDs or other legacy sources). I was profoundly disappointed that feature is not supported (why on earth does the P1 have the aux-in then?). Perhaps that was the start of a grudge I was going to hold against these.Still, in their defense, the speakers sound absolutely wonderful. Great, rich, deep sound. Perhaps in a few years, this will be an exciting alternative to Sonos. At this point, I\'m returning mine to go with Sonos and a Connect unit to accomplish what I want.
- I have several Play-Fi enabled speakers and this Polk speaker is my favorite. The reason I only gave it four stars is because they raised the price since I purchased the last one and I was going to get another.Here\'s the thing I discovered with Play-Fi and why I think so many people have trouble with it--you\'d better have a good strong wireless signal and high speed everywhere you put the speakers or else you are going to get all kinds of drop outs.I have four Google Mesh hubs or whatever they call it in my less than 1600 sq. foot house, so I am covered very well. I have only an occasional skip of the music for a few seconds. I didn\'t buy the google mesh to accommodate this, so I don\'t count that as an extra expense of Play-Fi.Also, if you\'re using your phone to play the music and you\'re carrying your phone around--well, when I did that, I had lots of drop outs as well.But when I installed the Play-Fi app on my PC and left it in one place--wow--Play-Fi works great. And you can get the speakers for way less than Sonos or other brands.Best bargain in whole house music in my opinion.
- I decided to go down the DTS Play-Fi route for multi room wireless music, instead of the closed Sonos system, and the Polk Omni series are all compatible. This means you can use any of the Omni speakers as well as Play-Fi speakers from other brands like the cheaper Phorus brand or the more expensive Definitive Technology, and do the same things as you would with Sonos.The Omni S2R is the rechargeable version. I decided to start out with one of these and the Omni Receiver so I can also listen through my existing stereo setup (it connects via optical).Pairing was quick and easy, and although on first attempt there was crackling and skipping, after a reboot, a move to a different wifi band, and a firmware upgrade it has been very smooth sailing.I use Spotify for all my music, and it sounds great on this speaker. The bass is much stronger than I expected, and it has good upper ranges. Aphex Twin and Leftfield were suitably punchy, and Dave Brubeck\'s Greatest Hits sounded nice and clear.Playing the same music out of this speaker and my stereo via the Omni Reciever is also perfectly in sync, so I now plan on getting some more speakers for around the house (Black Friday sale is on now!). You can also set two speakers as a stereo pair.The speaker\'s battery also came charged out of the box, and it really is great to able to move the speaker around the house freely.
- It sets up easily and sounds as good as any, but the Polk App only finds the device and will not update some apps, mostly Sirius and Spotify. Further, wthout updating it will not play those apps wirelessly within the program. I can, however, play those apps directly and use the bluetooth adapter to stream them, so it sort of worked out. Easy to set up and use and the sound is acceptable to say the least.
- Great little speaker , WiFi connection not that good. But the Bluetooth connection with my iPhone sounds great. Not having an On/off switch not one of it pluses no
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