Aether Cone - Bluetooth/Airplay/Spotify Connect speaker

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http://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/content/aether-cone-wireless-speaker

Apparently this used to be £300 and had some strange Amazon Echo-esque voice control / AI system used to select music. It used the Rdio service and, when Rdio closed its doors, the company who manufacturer them was forced to do so also. The firmware was then updated so that it became a regular bluetooth/Airplay/Spotify Connect device.

For £300 it's a joke but for £50 it's a steal. I ordered one yesterday to see what they're like. It arrived today I'm pleasantly surprised by how good it is. It's beautifully made. It'd make an excellent garden/kitchen/bathroom speaker and sound quality-wise, it's a lot better than any other portable bluetooth speaker I've heard, no doubt thanks to its 3" driver with separate tweeters.

It's also about £100 cheaper than anything else you can buy that has the same connectivity options.

Definitely worth the cash if you're after something like this.

Anyone else got one? There is, unsprisingly, a distinct lack of ownership experience online, but given its rather niche original market, I'm not surprised.
 
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Proper thread revival but I got two of these for £30 (each) after a friend recommended them!

Great speaker, the sound quality is superb!
 
Cool, makes an excellent Xmas presents for Niece and Nephew, ordered

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» Does it have Multi-Room?

You can only play music through one speaker but you can definately buy multiple and connect them all to your network to use in individual rooms! One of us even bought 5 to scatter around his home!


Surely Airplay (Itunes) would just see each speaker as a separate output device. OK you wouldn't be able to send different music to each speaker but sending the same track to multiple speakers would work!
 
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I have to say thanks for this tip - received mine today (paid £35 inc.shipping) didn’t expect it to be so big. Excellent stocking filler thankyou again.
 
mines just turned up . thought i had better test it , its great for £30 ish delivered, but i would have been sorely disappointed if i had paid £300 , it's no B+W Zeppelin
 
Got one of these for Christmas, only had a little play, but for £30 for a portable speaker certainly can't go wrong. May get another and pair them up to some chromecast Audios for a cheap house solution.
 
I bought 2 for different rooms but currently I can only output to one at a time. If anyone knows how to set up my MacBook Pro to output to both simultaneously via Wi-Fi (not Bluetooth - wall is too thick!) I'd be very grateful. I have tried using Audio MiDI Setup utility but it does not allow me to select both cones – only Airplay – and under the Airplay option it's only possible to select one cone at a time.
 
isn't the wi-fi broken on this , hence the knockdown price ? think the wife is only using hers on airplay and Bluetooth
 
I’m afraid that’s just the way the cut-down firmware works. You’d need them to create some sort of mesh network, or have a controlling app to allow full multi-room functionality.
Al
 
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