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Best BlueTooth Speaker with balanced sound. Any suggestions?
Best BlueTooth speaker with balanced sound. Did already a deep YT research, but still hard to figure out which bluetooth speaker has a good and balanced sound by which I mean good high, good mid and good low. Looks like most of them have too much bass (low) and cannot find any hints to speakers that have nice mids and highs. So any suggestions are welcome.
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The IK Multimedia iLoud Micros are quite nice and have a reportedly pretty flat response.
They have Bluetooth.
I’ve not compared them to my older bigger monitors as I don’t have the space for the big ones anymore but I’m happy enough with mine.
My only criticism is the cable that connects the two monitors is proprietary and fairly thick and inflexible.
They were the best monitors I could find in my price range for their size. Bluetooth is a bonus I use more than I thought I would for playing back iTunes from my phone.
There are probably better monitors but I think they’re pretty good for the size and price.
These Mackie monitors have Bluetooth.
https://mackie.com/products/cr-multimedia-monitors
Looks like they have been replaced by a new serie.
https://mackie.com/products/cr-x-creative-reference-multimedia-monitors
I have been absolutely blown away by the Vifa Helsinki. I’ve had other speakers with more features but man the sound on the Vifa is incredible. It’s crisp and airy and detailed, and the bass is still so sweet and ‘round’ and musical. Probably more of a listening speaker than a performer... Cannot recommend enough!
Recently we got my father-in-law a Cambridge Audio Yoyo. The thing is wrapped in British wool (from Yorkshire)! It sounded good when he first tried it and he says it’s sounding even better now he’s used it a good few times.
Whatever bluetooth speaker you use, I heartily recommend Equalizer APO for Windows, which allows you set graphic/parametric EQ profiles per Bluetooth device:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/
Many (most) consumer speakers have v-shaped sound and over-hyped bass, so It's been so refreshing for me to roll off some of the lows and increase the upper-mids on my selection of Bluetooth speakers.
There is also a Peace interface you can install alongside the APO app to make it more fun to control.
I'm afraid I don't own a Mac, so I don't know what the options are on that platform.
EDIT: a quick Google search reveals a similar Mac equivalent called EQMac https://bitgapp.com/eqmac/
Bluetooth Audio doesn’t make much sense for music production, because of latency, but if you need it, you can get an Bluetooth Audio Adapter (Logitec, Bluelino, …) which works with every monitor.
https://www.kaliaudio.com/mv-bt
It’s not a speaker but you can connect it to any studio monitor.
Thanks all for your input so far. The portable speaker is just meant to listen to music and not meant for a more or less pro studio setup or pro audio mixing.
How much latency do you guys gene ally get out of Bluetooth monitoring speakers? I've got a pair of Harmon Kardon Onyx Studio 5 speakers (not monitor, just regular speakers) and the lag is too much to actively produce with. Can only use them once I've sequenced and arranged. Do you use your Bluetooth monitors to actually create you music or just to mix your finished product?
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Love my Denon DSB 250bt. Spent months researching and trying different ones, but this one hit the best marriage of compact size, good balanced sound, and it has an 1/8th audio input in addition to BT if I want to use it for DJing little gatherings or working on music rather than listening to it. I'm constantly surprised how full it sounds for the size..
Isn’t Bluetooth audio compressed and bitrate limited?
I could never do anything but final mixing with BT latency. But I don’t think I’d trust the fidelity for mixing. Casual or convenience listening is all it’s good for IMO.
BT isn't always compressed. It depends on the codec.
The BT monitors like the IK Multimedia ones aren't bad. I check mixes on a JBL xtreme usually.
this guy channel have several good comparisons of different popular bluetooth speakers. I opted for sonos move.
There's a lot of useful information in this article: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-bluetooth-audio/
I am pretty sure that BT is always compressed -- but the compression is not always lossy -- just as FLAC and ALAC are compression algorithms but reproduced the original signal precisely. There are a variety of codecs used by BT and varies from device to device. This article has some useful info:
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-bluetooth-audio/
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