Edifier MS50A

Retro styling meets wireless audio in this loud-sounding multi-room speaker

- Rob Mead-Green

£129.99 

FROM edifier.com 

FEATURES 19mm silk dome tweeter, 102mm mid-bass driver, 40W power output, 52Hz-18kHz frequency response, Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi (2.4GHz/5GHz), AirPlay 2 compatible, Tidal HiFi, Tuneln, Spotify, and Alexa support; 143x143x210mm, 2.26kg

It's easy to connect and use solo, as part of a multi-room system, or as a stereo pair

Edifier’s first ‘smart’ speaker, the MS50A, isn’t as smart as all that – and that’s a good thing. While you can control it using Siri or Amazon Alexa on the devices you connect to it, it doesn’t have a mic of its own. That means it’s not ‘listening’ to you perpetually in the way that voice-controlled speakers like the Sonos One are, so helping keep your interactions just that bit more private.