Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have a seriously love-hate relationship with these speakers after owning them + Formation Bass + Formation Audio for 2 years. On the one hand they are fantastic, sound amazing (especially with Roon), and are hands-down the best speakers I've ever owned. On the other hand they were super finicky and my partner can't use them because there's no volume button/remote and she doesn't want to use the app. We actually use it for both music and movies and it works wonderfully when it does work. It's not designed for movie watching so it's hard to knock it on that but generally when the file sizes/song quality increases, the speakers start to struggle and get less reliable. I believe this is partly due to being 2.4 GHz only and also due to the fact that they're likely just bad at staying connected to one another. They often get out of sync or have a brief pausing when catching up etc. It also strangely has gotten worse over time - that one I can't figure out. I beefed up my WiFi with a ton of extenders etc and it never got better. No other device on my network has issues. Then I plugged them into Ethernet and life was so much better, until literally 2 years and 1 month into ownership one of them just started crackling and appears to be busted. Of course the warranty is only 2 years for such an expensive and "high end" product. I feel that Bowers is not selling a product here that they stand behind or want to keep up to date but I'm also very torn because I'm not sure what speakers would have been better for my application (not wanting a receiver, not wanting a ton of wires, but wanting high end sound). Sigh - cannot recommend.

This speaker is just "OK". At this price, it should really be a 3-way speaker. There is basically NO low bass. I wouldn't recommend this speaker without an external subwoofer in the overall system. Highs and Mid-base are all there is here. Low Bass is essentially nowhere to be found. Unacceptable at this price level. Very difficult to set up for computer use! I have only heard it through the phone App. "barely". But I bought these for wireless use with a computer. Big fail here. I have not been able to connect these speakers to my Apple computer. The price is outrageous. I expected these speakers to simply "just work" with my computer. But, alas, with their lack of low end bass, and poor 'ease of connection' to Apple computers, I would not them.