WiFi technology is powerful, why Bluetooth speakers are still the mainstream

Smart speakers based on WiFi technology have become the industry outlet for today's speakers. I believe that many families have standard smart speaker products. But speaking of speakers, our most popular HiFi Bluetooth speakers are still the most mainstream listening products. What is the difference between the two? Today we will talk about how to choose between WiFi speakers and Bluetooth speakers.

WiFi technology is currently very mature. Our daily life cannot escape the existence of WiFi. Mobile phones, computers, tablets and even today's smart power strips, smart desk lamps, smart speakers... Whether you are surfing the Internet or home smart devices Connections require the blessing of WiFi technology to operate normally.

The Bluetooth audio connection in the current speaker field can be said to be embarrassing in all aspects: both the bandwidth and the transmission distance are far below the level of WiFi (as shown in the above picture), although the above picture does not substitute Bluetooth aptX HD, Although these high-quality transmission protocols such as LDAC have greatly reduced the distance between the two, Bluetooth cannot match the transmission speed of WiFi at present. So why do you say that Bluetooth speakers are still the mainstream? We then look down.

I believe that many friends who have experienced WiFi speakers on site will call the sound of WiFi speakers well, because WiFi speakers have excellent wall penetration capabilities. In the same WiFi coverage area, as long as the mobile phone is connected to WiFi, the speakers can be controlled. Therefore, problems such as the transmission distance of Bluetooth speakers and signal blocking problems can directly affect the sense of hearing, and WiFi speakers are completely fearless.

But despite this, WiFi speakers still have a very serious problem: most WiFi speaker experience stores will provide mobile phones instead of letting you use your own mobile phone to connect to the WiFi speakers. Because almost all WiFi speakers can be connected through an exclusive APP, and the process of pairing from the mobile phone to the speaker, and then connected to the same WiFi is very complicated. In addition, the delay of WiFi speakers is extremely high, so basically it can only be used for music playback, and some products have the problem of out-of-sync sound and picture in movies and games. This directly leads to the WiFi speaker in your home that can only be used by your own mobile phone. When a friend comes to the house, it takes more than ten minutes to download the software and pair the speakers to realize the sharing of the speakers. However, when there are more people, I want everyone to try it. That's impossible~ and most of the current WiFi speakers only support online playback of their own programs and music software such as AirPlay, Q Play, or internal baseband platform playback through voice recognition. If you usually use other music platforms or some other playback software, music playback will also become a big problem. For example, Sonos Beam, although its mobile phone software can be compatible with music search/play on major platforms at home and abroad, if you use some other incompatible programs to listen on your mobile phone, then you have to adapt.

In contrast, the controllability of Bluetooth speakers will be much better. Although Bluetooth speakers cannot achieve perfect lossless sound quality transmission, high-quality Bluetooth transmission protocols such as aptX and LDAC can still bring us an almost lossless sound quality experience, which is very small for ordinary music lovers. Almost negligible.

Finally, let’s take the high-end Bluetooth speaker Audioengine HD3 as a chestnut: Audioengine HD3 has no WiFi and is not smart, but this speaker is equipped with a built-in decoder, Bluetooth 5.0+aptX HD, and a unique external antenna. Make Bluetooth wireless transmission more secure. At the same time, this speaker is equipped with a high and low two-unit crossover design in a small volume of 18cm x 10.5cm x 14cm, which can return all the money you spend to you with sound quality.

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In the future, there are still many areas where WiFi speaker products need to be improved, and we are also looking forward to high-end speaker products that can transmit higher-quality sound through the high bandwidth of WiFi. But for now, the high-quality Bluetooth protocol is completely sufficient for consumer HiFi products. In addition to bandwidth and intelligence, Bluetooth speakers are more controllable and scalable. When Bluetooth audio can develop to true lossless transmission in the future, I am afraid that WiFi speakers will only be used in the field of intelligent control.
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