We’re suckers for wireless speakers, though they have to work. We’re not a least bit meddlesome in streaming technologies that stumble from interference or compress a audio to preserve bandwidth. That’s why Libratone held the courtesy here in Berlin with the brand-new Libratone Beat — the “world’s first high-end active speaker with wireless technology,” or so they claim. The speaker facilities one 5-inch bass, dual 3-inch midrange drivers, as well as dual 1-inch badge formed tweeters. In all we’re looking during 50W of bass outlay as well as 2×25W at a tweeter / midrange. There’s even a 3.5-mm mini jack to fasten devices. The big subject here is will they be worth the MSRP €595 / $655 when they start shipping across Europe and a US in January?

Well, we can’t contend for sure. After all, you could usually attend to the orator on the really crowded (and noisy) floor of a IFA traffic show. But what you heard sounded decent and did conduct to tide audio over its proprietary transmission technology even during the distance of about 50 feet. Very considerable considering a tall concentration of WiFi hotspots and other wireless devices in make use of inside of just a couple of feet of the Libratone counter. Here’s the locate: a dongle is required to communicate with the speaker — a tiny chronicle for the iPod / iPhone / Pad or the incomparable USB stick for your laptop — both enclosed with the squeeze cost. On the plus side, mixed Beats can play during once — only ramble into range of a single or mixed Beats as well as they’ll begin (and later stop) personification automatically. Nice.Libratone Beats wireless speakers proceed playing when you enter the room

Via Engadget