Wren V5PF - Wireless Speaker for Android - Rosewood

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Price: $399.00    

Product Feature

• Stream music and apps with PlayFi App.
• Bamboo wood veneer over rigid MDF body.
• 25 watts of power drives dual 3" woofer & 19mm tweeters.

Product Description

High Performance Drivers The Wren V5 makes beautiful music with two 3-inch throw drivers with 4-layer voice coils to handle big power while dissipating heat. High frequencies are rendered silky and natural by a pair of edge-driven, wide dispersion 19mm soft dome tweeters optimally positioned on the front baffle to create a wide, realistic soundstage that rides high and free above the box. DSP-Controlled Digital Amplifier The Wren V5 is powered by Intersil's D2 Audio DSP-controlled digital amplifier with 50 watts of real power. Our DSP optimization allows you to play louder with more bass and less distortion. We enhance the soundstage, not with psychoacoustic tricks but traditional loudspeaker engineering that produces a big, lifelike image from a small system. Solid Anti-Resonance Enclosure Beneath the beautiful wood veneers, the Wren V5 cabinet is constructed of half-inch thick MDF board constructed by laminating layers together and reinforced with an internal MDF brace to provide a chassis free from resonance and coloration. As speaker designers have known for years, you just can't beat the timbre of timber! Acoustic Damping Silicone Base Pad The underside of the Wren V5 is covered with a 4mm low durometer silicone pad that stabilizes the chassis and absorbs any cabinet vibration, eliminating surface coupling buzz and coloration. Acoustically Transparent Grille Frame Cheap or poorly designed grilles can seriously impair a speaker's acoustical output. The grille on the Wren V5 incorporates such design features as radius ribs that add stiffness without diffraction and a diamond matrix that creates more open space so sound is not restricted. As with so many other small details of the Wren V5's design, our engineers make sound quality their top priority.

Wren V5PF - Wireless Speaker for Android - Rosewood Review

I'm an Android fan so I jumped on the opportunity of having "Airplay-like" music streaming from my numerous Android devices.
This is what I've gathered after using this speaker for a few weeks:

Performance is very good. It connects reliably to my home network and I'm able to stream FLAC files or internet radio.
Sound quality is very good but it's still a portable speaker. Some of the reviews I read before purchasing made it sound like the sound quality would blow me away. It doesn't. The speaker can play loud without distortion but it's not going to replace your home stereo. The sound is pretty centralized to the box and doesn't project as well as I was expecting. Still, it sounds very good and connects reliably.

Looks are good and it feels pretty solid and well built.

Where the speaker suffers the most is in the apps available for streaming. Right now you can only stream Pandora, internet radio and your local content on your network. The last item is "experimental" but it seems to work fine. I wouldn't use this speaker to stream Pandora as the low bit-rate they use defeats the purpose of having a good sounding speaker. I have found a few internet stations that stream at a higher rate and with good content. Those sound pretty good through this speaker.

Missing here are the main streaming options like Spotify, MOG, Google's own All Access service and many others. Ideally, you would be able to stream any sound output to the speaker but that's not possible at the time. I imagine they will be adding some of these streaming services in the future but until they do the usefulness of the speaker will be limited.

The last factor which in my opinion ties everything together is the price.At $400 this is a very expensive speaker. I don't think the way it sounds and looks quite justifies that high price. It's great that it streams from Android devices but the limited streaming options further hinder the value of the speaker.

In conclusion, this is a very good speaker that works well and sounds good. It needs more streaming options and would be a better value at maybe $100 less.

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