WiFi technology is of course healthy, why Bluetooth speakers are still the mainstream

Smart speakers based on WiFi technology have become the operating outlet of today's speakers. It is believed that many families now have standard smart speaker products. But when it comes to speakers, our most prosperous 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 very old now, our daily life cannot escape the existence of WiFi, mobile phones, computers, tablets and even the current smart power strips, smart lamps, smart speakers...regardless of whether you are online or The connection of smart devices at home requires the blessing of WiFi technology to be able to operate normally.

The Bluetooth audio connection in the speaker category at that time can be said to be more difficult 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 These high-quality transmission protocols such as HD and LDAC, although these protocols have largely reduced the distance between the two, Bluetooth is not comparable to the transmission speed of WiFi. So why is it that Bluetooth speakers are still the mainstream? Let's continue to look down.

I believe that many friends who have gone to the scene to understand the WiFi speakers will shout good at the dynamics of the WiFi speakers. Because the WiFi speakers have excellent wall-to-wall adjustments, in the same WiFi covered area, only the mobile phone needs to connect to the WiFi to end the speakers. Control, so problems like 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 apprentice shops will supply mobile phones, instead of letting you use your own mobile phone to connect to the WiFi speakers. Since almost all WiFi speakers can be connected through an exclusive APP, the process of pairing from mobile phones to speakers and then connected to the same WiFi is very complicated. And the delay of WiFi speakers is extremely high, so basically it can only be used for music playback, and some products have problems with audio and video synchronization 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 before adjusting the sharing of the speakers. But when there are more people, we will think about it later. It's impossible to try that root. 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 playback through voice recognition. Assuming that you usually use other music channels 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 all major channels of music search/play at home and abroad, if you use some other incompatible programs to listen on your mobile phone, then you still need to get used to it.

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 almost lossless sound quality understanding. This is very small for ordinary music lovers. Almost negligible.

After all, 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 guaranteed. At the same time, this speaker is equipped with a concave-convex two-unit frequency division plan in a small volume of 18cm x 10.5cm x 14cm, which can repay you all the money you spend with sound quality.

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In the future, there are still many places where the demand for WiFi speaker products will improve. We are also looking forward to high-end speaker products that can transmit higher-quality dynamics through the high bandwidth of WiFi. But for now, the high-quality Bluetooth protocol is fully satisfactory for consumer HiFi products. In addition to bandwidth and intelligence, Bluetooth speakers are more controllable and upgradeable. When Bluetooth audio can be turned to true lossless transmission in the future, I am afraid that WiFi speakers only need to be used in the field of intelligent control.

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