How to Choose a Best Wireless Speaker for You?

This post was last updated on October 29th, 2021

Tips to Choose the Best Wireless Speaker

Present days most of the people love to listen to music, watch a movie on TV or like to play TV game and they also love the good quality sound, but to choose a best wireless speaker, most buyers don’t have technical knowledge depth of sound quality, design & its feature.

Despite the fact that there’s an ocean of available choices and different categories of wireless speakers in the market, each with their own capabilities. However, all wireless speakers are not produced the same, and choosing the perfect one for your style can be hard. Hopefully, after reading through this article, you will have a better idea about which type of speaker, or which features would be considerable for you.

Tips to Choose the Best Wireless Speaker

Nowadays, speakers come in all shapes and sizes – from small to large, influential home systems to compact battery-powered Bluetooth speakers. Some are even capable to control by voice alone.  Whether the speaker connects via Bluetooth or over Wi-Fi, are to take as the companion on holiday outing or are for the home audio system, there are many things to consider before you buy beyond simply price. You can budget as little as US$ 20 or as much as US$ 1000 or more, but whatever your budget, this expert buying guide will tell you everything you need to look for.

To choose a best wireless speaker for you, at first, you have to decide the purpose of your use. It is a most vital issue to choose a perfect wireless speaker for you. You can look for a speaker for outdoor use such as companion on the road, camping, hiking, Boating, outdoor adventure, outdoor party, you should look for a portable wireless speaker which must be easy to carry with you with long battery life. On the other hand, you can look for the home audio system for the home party, multi-room home audio or home theater system. Whatever your purpose of uses, you should prefer to consider speakers Sound quality, Speaker’s Design, Product’s specification, Battery life, Connectivity, app, Set up, Multi-speaker pairing, Operating System, Warranty & Refund policy and of course Price.

Sound quality

The speaker’s sound quality should be loud, clear, with high bass. Loudness depends on the size of the woofer, driver, tweeter and Headroom number. A small woofer and driver unable to deliver loud sound with high bass. Contrariwise, sound’s clearness depends on the quality of hardware, and the combination of the quality woofer, driver, tweeters, Harmonic Distortion and the impedance of Speaker. If a compact wireless speaker just doesn’t cut it quite for you, then larger tight bass speakers might be better options. There are a plethora of brands on the market today that offers these audio devices. Tune in to MusicCritic’s guide for proper information.

Speaker’s Design

Design is the most significant part of a good wireless speaker. Remember, if two speaker uses the same hardware but the designs are deferent, in that case, sound quality may differ for a speaker’s design. You should carefully look for speaker’s dimension, woofer, driver & tweeter’s size, combination, and its position. You also should know sound output pressure label in WATT/dB, stereo or mono, charging port, headphone port, is there built in Mic. or not. Is the speaker has built-in speakerphone or not, built-in Alexa or able to connects with Alexa-enabled devices or not.  However, the design should look good and easy to carry for you.

Product’s specification

A speaker’s specification shows its operating system, the way of charging, the size of the woofer, driver, tweeters, waterproof & dustproof rating, type of battery and its life, the capability to pair with another speaker or not, built-in speakerphone, connectivity etc. Specifications are most important to choose a speaker. In fact, a good featured speaker is expensive than the low featured speaker.

Battery life

Most portable speakers use rechargeable lithium polymer battery. Battery’s lifetime depends on its size. Normally 12 to 15 hours high volume play time battery life is okay for a portable speaker. Some manufacturer increases their speaker’s battery life up to 45 hours, in this case, the speaker’s battery size or quantity would be bigger/more and hardware such as the woofer, driver, and tweeters would be a smaller compared with the speaker’s size which could be the effect on the loudness of the speaker.

Connectivity

There are many types of wireless Connectivity applied to modern wireless speakers such as Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, Airplay, DLNA, Multi-room connectivity etc. You have to know about these connectivities and decide which one you prefer for your speaker. To learn more details about these connectivities, please click here.

Set up

Some wireless speaker need to set-up connectivity and its app. Before choosing a wireless speaker, you must know its set up option. Is the way of set up user-friendly or little difficult for you?

How to Choose a Best Wireless Speaker for You

Operating System

The operating system is not a big deal for a wireless speaker if there is no manufacturer’s App, NFC/ Wi-Fi/ Airplay/ DLNA connectivity and Equalizer system. Before choosing a speaker, a buyer should have a look its operating manual. If there is a manufacturer’s App for music streaming and operating speaker, you must know details about the App.

App

At present, many Company developing their own app for their speaker especially those who are using Wi-Fi connectivity. You have to know about the app before choosing the speaker. Some apps are user-friendly, some are a little difficult to use.

Warranty & Refund policy

Before buy a wireless speaker, you must read about the speaker’s warranty & refund policy. At the present time, many manufacturers giving importance to their products for warranty & refund policy and this increases their sell.

Price

There are huge price variations on the wireless speaker, especially reputed brand and non-brand and size of the speaker. In my personal understanding, there are the high brand, mid brand and low brand speakers in the market. Speaker’s size is also the reason for the price, of course, big size speaker’s prices are higher than small size speakers. Fact is that the high brand wireless speakers performance is very good and durability is high. So that, high brand wireless speaker’s price also very high. You should mindset for your budget for wireless speaker first.

Conclusion

Before you buy a best wireless speaker, you should know about the above matters carefully. Usually, a manufacturer does not provide all of the above information. For this reason, you should read carefully some quality reviews. High-quality reviews will help you to make your decision.

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