Edifier R1280DB Powered Bluetooth Bookshelf Speakers – Optical Input – Wireless Studio Monitors – 4 Inch Near Field Speaker – 42w RMS – White

Sound value
Mr Edifier’s little bookshelf active speakers are just brilliant. Bought them for use in kitchen – a 7m long room – and they will fill the space if asked. Quality improves the closer you get as you would expect from a bookshelf device. The sound quality is surprisingly good. Particularly so for human singing voice which, for me, is a paramount indicator of what a speaker can do. They are nearly as good as my Quad AS9 set in lounge. Given that the Edifiers cost £120 (“cheap” white ones) and the Quads were £600, this is just unbelievable value.They will handle just about every kind of music, from simple voice, through rock bands to full orchestra. The bass can be a bit heavy at times but is easily adjusted on the bass/treble dials. My stuff goes through digital equalisers on my PC and phone and they handle that well too.Useful set of input ports for just about every combination of line and digital. Only thing missing here is a USB input port which I would use when needing quality a bit better than Bluetooth. That said, the Bluetooth itself delivers pretty good sound quality. I have a CD player connected through the optical port and it works marvellously.Okay, they lack a lot of the digital stuff you get from “dedicated” Bluetooth speakers like Sonos and the like. But I don’t want to be able to talk to them, I don’t want them to play in other rooms or choose what they think I should listen to. Wouldn’t mind if they could make me a coffee but we don’t seem to have come that far yet!So, if you want really good quality sound for a budget price, buy the Edifiers. Great quality for absurdly low price.

Good Active Speakers with flexible connection options
Bought these to work alongside a turntable I bought (turntable reviewed separately), and selected these as they had a number of connection options including Phono and Bluetooth.They came well packaged and on time, connecting to the turntable was simple either through phono and bluetooth.In terms of built they are certainly solid enough and look good with and without the front covers. Sound wise they are OK – if a little heavy on the bass, but you have bass and treble adjustment on there so you can tone this down. They have plenty of power as well!Remote control is very basic, think of the remote you get with LED strips, and to be fair hardly gets used but was not my primary purpose for buying these.

Excellent quality and Value for Money
Was very sceptical about giving these a go given the price range. Bought to use with a Teac Bluetooth turntable where some reviews suggest sound quality suffers when using Bluetooth with a turntable – this is not the case with these speakers. Excellent quality build, they feel solid and substantial and sound quality does not disappoint at all. At the price range it’s hard to see where these can be beaten.

Do it. Buy them.
Love them, I used them inside a cinema room and they were suuuper loud.They look amazing too, and the sound is exactly what should be expected of edifier speakers (clean and crisp).They were easy to set up even though I’m new to the whole speaker world.