Bowers & WilkinsZeppelin Wireless Speaker, Iconic Design, 5 Drivers Including Subwoofer, Wireless Streaming via Bluetooth, Alexa Built-in, AirPlay & Spotify Connect, Multiroom Support, Pearl Grey

I can see people being scared off by the reviews here, but I’ve spent a lot of time with this speaker and have nothing close to buyer’s remorse.The connection does annoyingly stop working from time to time, and getting it reconnected can be a pain, but it always eventually comes back to life.The sound quality here is definitely, imho, worth the several hundred extra dollars you spend. I was looking for a medium/high-end wireless speaker, and this is that. It’s not going to sound as good as a good stereo system, obviously, but it fills up even large rooms, is really articulate, warm, balanced, great highs and great lows and great mids, etc. And yes, it looks elegant.

I bought this for myself for Father’s Day, and holy cow, it’s just perfect. I have owned B&W headphones, wired and Bluetooth, and they have lasted decades, and this thing is built so well. It sounds stunning with a high-definition source like Apple Music lossless. Alexa works great, and controls everything in my home. It sits in my bedroom and more than fills the room. It’s so nice for listening as we start the day. It goes silent instantly, and very low power about 20 minutes after you say your last command or stop playing music. In fact, my only request is that the lovely LED light went dark sooner, or that you could tell Alexa to turn off the LED. (You can do it in the app, and it does for off itself after 20 minutes.)All-in-all, it’s one of the nicest pieces of audio kit I’ve ever owned, and I can’t recommend it enough. We got the grey, because I figured it would show less dust, but the black looks a little sexier to my eye. I guess I don’t care too much what it looks like. That’s just an extra benefit that it looks so good. What’s amazing is the sound. No distortion at any level. Just clean, well-balanced sound for any music. Right now it’s playing Tony Bennett, just before was the Beatles, and before that was Rush. It handles all of them.

For the price I expect a lot more. I am comparing this against a Studio 8 Harmon Kardon. That speaker is a fraction of the cost of this one so I expected to seriously out perform it. The BW speaker is louder and the treble more pronounced, but its lacking low end bass extension like the HK speaker.The next glaring issue is connectivity. Its very slow and difficult to connect. If you walk away while it is connected it stutters and clicks loudly then loses connection. In order to reconnect you can try all the things the manual says, but unless you press the reset button on the back and start over you probably wont be able to reconnect. I tried multiple phones to connect to it and it was the same deal.This alone was enough to return it. Between the sound being poor for the price, and the connectivity issues I started a return. Hopefully that goes smoothly.Lastly these were advertised to have the same tweeters as their series 6 towers. I can assure thats not true. I have the series 6 towers. The treble is not even close to the what my towers sound like. I was not expecting this speaker to be as loud as my towers. I was expecting them to be my HK speakers.

The media could not be loaded. Amazing speaker. Great sound quality and attractive appearance. Has good balanced bass, and crystal clear miss to highs. Been looking at this for a long time and glad I finally made the move to get it. I’m sure my video won’t do it justice.. (used royalty free song just so I don’t get into trouble🥴)

I love this speaker, it sounds phenomenal. Gets crazy loud and has bass that can shake walls. My one complaint is that the wifi connection with this is slow and unreliable when streaming to it through airplay. Wish it had an ethernet port to get a good connection. I wasn’t going to use this as an $800 Bluetooth speaker so I returned it. If you can find one around $500 to $650, I’d recommend it, otherwise it’s not worth $800 knowing it’s going to be obsolete in the not so distant future.

The speaker is divine. It’s gorgeous to look at, adding to your decoration. The sound is obviously amazing, filling the room with soul-punching bass even with the default profile. We use it 100% with AurPlay 2 which works seamlessly. Always there in the list of devices. The only ‘thing’, for me personally, is that I find myself trying to talk to it as though it was a HomePod. Obviously it doesn’t respond, but despite the sound quality being - for my ear - better than a single HomePod, and marginally better than two paired HomePods (original big ones) I find it frustrating not being able to control it with my voice. For me this device is easily worth the money, but the key is to find its place in your abode. Somewhere the design can shine, the sound can impress, and you won’t find yourself needing it to respond to your voice. Not sure if it has microphones which would enable a software update to implement third-party Siri, but that would make it the ultimate showpiece speaker. Overall, 5 stars and very happy with my purchase.

Not too impressed by the sound quality as I have many other good speakers, but overall a good one.The airplay connection was good and it wakes up easily whenever you airplay.Good looking, like an art in the room

I’m really torn on this. When it works it sounds GREAT (I am a fan of B&W speakers). However, it kept dropping from Alexa and my WiFi. A call with B&W support suggested it was my WiFi, however multiple other devices (desktop, printer, laptop, iPad, iPhone, Echo, Echo Studio) work flawlessly. A replacement did exactly the same thing so it was not just a one off bad speaker. Since it does not have any line input then connection to the network is vital for its operation, and having to reset it every couple of days (or sometimes hours) was not good. If the connectivity issues are resolved this would be a great speaker. For now, I’m looking elsewhere.