Edifier MS50A

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

- ROB MEAD-GREEN

There are touch controls or you can use Siri or Amazon Alexa to control the MS50A through your chosen device.

With its fabric front and wooden cabinet, Edifier’s “semi-smart” speaker has the aesthetics sorted.

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 with it just that bit more private.