Audio Pro Addon C3 Review

A talented multi-room best wireless speaker with excellent sound quality.

SPECIFICATIONS

Dimensions: HxWxD (cm): 11.5 x 21.5 x 13.5|Power: 2x5W + 15W Digital course D|Features: wi-fi, multi-room, Bluetooth V4.0, Spotify Attach, Apple AirPlay|Connections: Ethernet, 3.5 mm stereo

Factors for getting

Impressive timing

Strong develop

Limited, textured bass

Reasons to Prevent

The application could be slicker

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This is primarily the wi-fi-enabled, multi-room variation of Sound Pro's Addon T3. It has the very same minimalist looks that the Scandinavian business is recognized for, full with distinctive surface areas as well as embossed leather lug handle, however, the cordless tech adds an entire brand-new measurement to your listening. It's just a shame that regulating it using the mobile phone app isn't a bit better thought through. Still, this is a belter of an audio speaker, make indisputable, as well as a fine addition to any type of residence set up. A What Hi-Fi? 2019 Honors champion.

Audio Pro's technique for its Addon series of wireless audio speakers has been rather easy. Toenail the layout as well as audio high quality for the conventional Bluetooth designs, after that roll out multi-room versions of the same speakers.

It might be easy, however, it has shown exceptionally reliable, as 3 What Hi-Fi? Honors in 2014 programs.

Develop

We're not stunned by the arrival of the Audio Pro Addon C3. It's generally the multi-room, wi-fi version of the Addon T3.

From the front, it looks virtually the same-- the 9cm woofer splitting a pair of 75mm tweeters in what we've affectionately referred to as Sound Pro's 'koala' arrangement (the Coal Black finish does not show the furry organization fairly as well as Arctic White or Storm Grey).

Like the T3, there's a rear-firing bass response port - although Sound Pro's designers have fine-tuned the C3's port to give it a more conical form, which they claim boosts sound top quality.

The dimensions equal as you leap from T3 to C3, and they likewise share the advanced style touches we've involved value from Sound Pro. The textured surfaces, as well as embossed leather lug handle, are very grown-up for a wireless audio speaker at this type of rate.

The Audio Pro is a neat bundle with attractive proportions. It's correctly portable, but could not actually be referred to as light enough to be carted around in a backpack all the time.

The Addon C3 is possibly extra suited to placing on a patio, mounting in a holiday home or putting on a desktop computer.

If you want something with even more rugged, outdoors qualifications, we would certainly suggest checking out competitors such as the Ultimate Ears Megaboom or JBL Xtreme.

Attributes

While the addition of wi-fi as well as multi-room rate, Audio Pro has actually needed to make a couple of sacrifices to accommodate them.

Contrasted to the T3 on which it's based, the C3 loses the rear USB port and also, in addition to it, the capacity to bill a mobile phone. In its area, you'll discover an ethernet outlet for hardwiring the speaker to your residence network.

Including new wireless attributes has also affected battery life. You navigate 9 hours of playback at 100 percent volume and up to 15 hours at 50 percent, compared to 12 and 30 hours specifically with the T3.

It's not the end of the globe, however, particularly when you consider rival multi-room audio speakers, such as the Sonos Play:3 or LG WK7, need to be completely linked to a mains outlet.

Compared to various other models in its Addon array, the Sound Pro C3 gets a new-look leading panel. It's busier however neatly laid out, with a brand-new resource selector switch and LED indication for Bluetooth, wi-fi and also it's 3.5 mm input.

The volume control in the center has a new vertical design, and the Bluetooth and also matching switches are currently integrated into one.

Being a member of Sound Pro's multi-room family, you also get 4 predetermined switches. These can be appointed to either web radio stations or any kind of playlists you have actually assembled on your music streaming services.

This means you can get tunes playing without also taking your phone out of your pocket.

The Sound Pro Addon C3 supports all the primary streaming solutions, consisting of Tidal, Spotify, Qobuz as well as Apple Music.

Playback is regulated via the Sound Pro Control app for iPhone and Android. It's not quite the smooth experience offered by Sonos' equivalent application, yet neither is it seriously flawed.

Set up is a pain-free procedure, whether you select a Bluetooth or wi-fi connection. When establishing a multi-room system, the application looks for other Sound Pro audio speakers in the vicinity on the very same network.

From here you can drag-and-drop to a group or separate audio speakers, either in stereo pairs or multi-room zones, as well as make hands-on modifications to bass and also treble need to you want.

When you're regulating music through Audio Pro's application, there's a minor hold-up in between touching the speaker as well as a control obeying, but in the grand system of multi-room applications, it's very easy to quadrate.

Subscribers to either Spotify or Apple music will require to keep appearing of the app to search for their music collection. It's not the end of the globe (those pre-programmed buttons can be found in convenient below), but it leaves the entire experience feeling a little bit disjointed.

Although there's no voice aide directly built-into the C3, Sound Pro has actually picked to permit Alexa control through the Alexa application.

Our experience is positive enough, however, the attribute only collaborates with Amazon.com Songs, so customers to Spotify, Tidal as well as others will certainly have to stick with the primary application.

Noise

Audio Pro has established credibility for brilliant-sounding wireless speakers and also the C3 is no various.

The degree of refinement from such a tiny plan is hugely impressive. It provides the lead vocal from Chvrches' Wonder with a magnificently wonderful and pure tone. Negative attributes such as sibilance and also violence do not exist in the C3's sonic vocabulary.

It's focused audio however ventilated and open with it. There's no fancy 360-degree spread of audio right here-- the C3 is more direct in its distribution, but it doesn't have trouble loading a decently sized room with top-quality noise.

At both high and low volumes, the speaker excels, seeming vibrant and punchy when the track needs yet additionally able to slow the speed as well as communicate in a subtler method should the need to develop.

Music seems all-natural and the Addon C3 handles to record the rhythm significance of any type of track tossed at its feet, from the jumbled path trodden by Alt-J's Breezeblocks to the more purposeful, penetrating bassline of SBTRKT's Greater.

The C3 manages to seem substantial, delving deep as well as making each note with detail and texture. By multi-room best blutooth speaker criteria, this is incredibly improved performance.

Decision

The Addon C3 is an exceptional addition to Sound Pro's toolbox of multi-room audio speakers.

It has taken an existing T3 audio speaker and repackaged it into a sensational-sounding multi-room recommendation that gives competitors, including Sonos, a significant run for their cash. As well as you can not actually request more than that.