Audio ProC5 MK II - Compact HiFi Stereo - Bluetooth, WiFi, AirPlay 2, Chromecast, Spotify Connect - Multiroom, Home, Office - White

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.

For over a decade I've streamed music locally within my home (I have LOTS of CDs, all of which I've ripped). My oldest device that I used for locally streamed playback died recently, so I bought the C5A as an intended replacement. This turned out to be much harder than it should have been: some reasons were clearly issues with the C5A and/or the AudioPro app, while some issues were related to my home network hardware/software. In principle, I wanted to rely on the ability of the C5A to act as a UPnP/DLNA client to play music stored on and served from my (old) network attached storage (NAS) unit--something I've more or less been doing for years with other devices. The C5A and/or the AudioPro app would occasionally see one of the three different UPnP/DLNA servers I tried using with it (two on the NAS, one on a Windows computer), but nothing worked consistently. Something might work for 5 minutes or 5 hours--and then disappear, with the connection sometimes never to be seen again in the AudioPro app. I occasionally got the C5A to work with Logitech Media Server (LMS) software running on a Windows computer (but not with the version running on my NAS, for reasons not the fault of the C5A). This particular Windows computer is not supposed to sleep completely, but in the morning it and the C5A could never see each other; resurrecting their ability to find each other was hit-or-miss. My eventual solution was drastic: buy a CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 kit; download and install on it piCorePlayer (a free, pared-down Linux with some free streaming media features--including the ability to run LMS); and use LMS on the Raspberry Pi to pull music from my NAS and play it on the C5A. A software plugin (also free) for LMS needed to accomplish this is a "bridge" for LMS to communicate with UPnP/DLNA devices. This worked, after considerable learning on my part. I then repurposed an otherwise now-useless first-generation iPad (too old to run the AudioPro app) to run an app to control what music LMS (on the Raspberry Pi) sends from the NAS to the C5A. The AudioPro app can do other things, but it can't do that.For the last three days, all of this has been working, with the NAS and the Raspberry Pi on wired Ethernet connections and the C5A on Wi-Fi. Fingers still crossed.My favorite message from tech support at AudioPro: "Our App has NAS compatible issue." I think their app actually has a problem with linking to UPnP/DLNA servers, regardless of whether the server softwar (or the music they are serving) is on a NAS or some other computer. That may have been what tech support meant.For my purposes, I give the C5A four stars (ignoring the fact that my wife hates its "look"), then subtract one for the two weeks I spent getting it to work. Not to mention having to buy and configure a separate (although inexpensive) computer with an operating system about which I know almost nothing.P.S. If you want to use the C5A just to access Spotify or other online services, ignore me.

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.

Había escuchado excelentes opiniones del producto pero se habían quedado cortas. El altavoz está excelentemente bien construido, se siente sólido y de buena calidad en todos sus componentes. El sonido es impresionante, los altos son cristalinos y nítidos sin llegar a ser estridentes, los medios son claros y cálidos, bien definidos y muy agradables. Los bajos son im-pre-sio-nan-tes. La tengo en mi oficina y parece que tengo conectado un subwoofer activo. No es que los bajos sean super potentes, simplemente son lo que deben ser pero la profundidad es realmente sorprendente.Si quieres un sistema de audio de calidad, bien balanceado y con bajos sobresalientes este equipo es para ti.

I have this speaker and it keeps skipping on wifi play. The very reason I bought this thing. Called them to ask for support and they asked what modem I was using, sent specs and photos and no response after multiple follow ups. This started a few months back and still no response.Build quality and sound is pretty good for what it is but all that doesn’t matter when the music keeps skipping.

J'ai esseyé plusieurs marque , même le tout ressament bose 500 et pour vrai je préfère la qualité du son lumineux du audio pro. Côté look j'aurais préféré un look plus futuriste, Mais bon, pour la qualité sonore et les fonctionnalités et s'en oublié la superbe application, j'adore!Je suis deja impatient de voir des nouveau vidéo et de testé la nouvelle série Audio apro "A"Merci

Der Audio Pro Addon C5A klingt ordentlich verglichen mit anderen Geräten, wie z.B. dem B&W Z2 oder dem Cambridge Minx Air. Und er hat Alexa integriert. Leider gibt es einen Haken: Man kann ihn zwar mit der eingebauten Alexa steuern, allerdings nur wenn man nur ihn alleine steuern will oder alle anderen Geräte, niemals alle zusammen: Es ist nicht möglich, den Addon als Teil einer Multi-Room Gruppe einzurichten, da erscheint er nicht einmal in der Geräteübersicht in der Alexa App. Somit wird er nicht angesprochen, wenn man auf anderen Echos "überall" Musik anfordert und er bleibt ebenso stumm, wenn man selbiges vom Addon aus macht. Dazu müsste man einen Echo anschließen (und per Kabel den Ton aus dem Echo auf dem Addon wiedergeben) - was aber keinen Sinn ergibt, weil ja die Alexa Funktion schon enthalten ist und somit beide Geräte reagieren würden. Amazon sagt: Audio Pro's Problem. Audio Pro sagt: Nein, das bieten wir nicht über die Alexa App an, nur über unsere eigene App. Aus meiner Sicht irreführende Vermarktung, denn nirgendwo wird darauf hingewiesen, dass eine so essentielle Funktion nicht geht.Dazu kommt, dass die eingebaute Echo-Funktion leider so gut wie nicht reagiert - teilweise nicht einmal, wenn man direkt davor steht - dann ist man gezwungen, Befehle drei, vier, fünfmal zu wiederholen und fast zu schreien, und bevor sie verstanden und umgesetzt werden hat dann oft ein Echo in einem anderen Raum weit entfernt reagiert. Also Fazit: Klang okay, im Alltag aufgrund der schlechten Ansprechbarkeit von Alexa aus meiner SIcht völlig unbrauchbar. Wir haben den Artikel zurückgesendet.

Prodotto secondo me molto interessante: design molto elegante, qualità del suono davvero buona per il prezzo ed app varie ed alexa integrate piuttosto bene.Purtroppo peccano pesantemente dal punto di vista del controllo qualità: nel primo esemplare ricevuto non funzionava il pulsante Volume+ che istantaneamente riavviava il dispositivo, nel secondo esemplare ricevuto si può alzare il volume ma la ricezione del segnale wifi è pessima al punto da renderlo sostanzialmente inutilizzabile. Ora attendo il terzo...AGGIORNAMENTO: la terza unità funziona senza evidenti difetti. Alexa però è disponibile solo in inglese e non c'è alcun modo di selezionare l'italiano; ho scritto al servizio tecnico del produttore che nega che Amazon abbia mai implementato l'italiano per Alexa.