Audio Pro Addon C5A Multiroom Smart Speaker with Built In Amazon Alexa - White

Im very pleased with this speaker! The build quality is very apparent - very solid, weighty item and good quality buttons. The sound quality is great (as expected, having done plenty of homework before the investment!). Control of the system via the app is simple and i love the fact i can easily preset spotify playlists to the 4 physical chanels on the speaker itself (so i dont need to go find my phone or if the kids want to listen when im not around). Alexa works well and even detects my commands when the music is playing and background noise - impressed. The only thing i would down mark was the initial setup with the WIFI - even reading the instructions it took a few attempts and i moved closer to the router which wasnt too practical BUT, since initial setup, ive positioned at least 7meters from the router and through a solid brick wall and the signal has never dropped! Overall the 30min effort to set up is by far worth the overall experience. The volume is plenty to fill my 3m/4m conservatory on around 3/4 max volume playing Spotify/DAB stations.

I invested in a Dot a little while back to try out the whole Alexa thing and had been impressed by how useful it is. However, the Dot is a little quiet for my open plan living-room, so I decided to upgrade.Saw great things about Audio Pro in the What Hi-Fi? buying guide, with the original Addon C5 having a set of good reviews and awards, so I decided the C5A would be a good choice. I wasn't disappointed. Amazing sound - quite a step up from my Dot! Clear, loud and fills the entire living room quite easily. I installed the app on my iPhone 6S and find it extremely easy to navigate through my music. It's very responsive to voice commands. I'm tempted to buy another speaker now to set up in the kitchen and link to it. The thing looks pretty cool too - a bit of Scandi-style can never go a miss.

I've had this for a month now and I have to say it's a nice piece of hardware completely let down by the app. As of the latest update on 25 October, the app will not work at all and keeps crashing. The reviews for the app on Google Play are mostly 1 stars. Avoid.

It has a beautiful sound which doesn’t distort even if you turn it up, good bit of bass with crisp trebles, it has a good selection of inputs for most devices, Alexa is brilliant, add Amazon music and you can play any song you like even new releases (monthly subscription required check prices, with Prime it’s a little cheaper) overall it’s brilliant even if you just have basic Alexa you can play quite a lot of radio stations or just use your own devices 👍👍👍

This speaker sounds great and looks great. General functionality is pretty good, but there is one major flaw in the execution of the Alexa functionality. When you connect a device to play music via Bluetooth, Alexa stops listening. To make 'her' listen again you have to either choose the 'Wifi' source from the front panel, or play either a Spotify track or a song from your NAS. This makes the unit go back in to 'Wifi' mode and Alexa then starts listening/responding again. Hardly convenient - the idea behind Alexa (and other voice assistants) is that they are meant to be always listening in the background for your commands!! It seems Audio Pro didn't really think hard enough about this when they added Alexa to the C5 to create the C5A.

First of all the sound from this little speaker is nothing short of amazing. It did win the gadget show shoot out so option of realy people defo correct . I havnt used sonos but the app to me works as I hoped ( some people don't like) so no issues there. The only issue is with the alexa as is It doesn't give full alexa usage so I can turn on / offlights, ask questions etc but you carnt use it to drop in to/from other speakers in the house .Last but not least I think it looks quality with the black leather handle

The alexa function worked well. But the sound was lacking any warmth and I, therefore, returned this unit and ordered a Denon (which sucks at alexa damnit)

Received a speaker with a reversed volume button. Dissapointed