John Lewis couldn't help, can ph? Simple wifi speaker.

[Lefty]

I'm looking for a wifi speaker, spent 45 minutes in the audio department of JL and ended up walking out with 3x salespeople arguing amongst themselves about which would be best.

Basically, I want to stream Apple Music content from my phone to a stereo speaker. Simple as that. However, it's a big room (open plan house, 17m x 5m x 5m high so it needs to be decent sized and needs decent range.

Previous experience of Bluetooth hasn't been great for range - and I don't want phone calls or text alerts coming through on the speaker so wifi seems the way to go.

I don't need multi room functionality.
I don't want to download everything I listen to.
I don't want to lose any functionality of the Apple Music app
I want to easily and simply play from 3 or 4 different devices
Sound quality is gong to be limited by the quality of what I'm streaming from Apple Music sk no need for high end amps or anything like that

Budget is reasonably flexible, no more than £500 though, preferably more like £300-ish

Cheers
Lefty

[Lefty]

FlossyThePig said:

We got our grandson one of these

http://www.johnlewis.com/store/john-lewis-spectrum...

He uses it with his iPhone 6 and is very pleased with it.

Perhaps it's too downmarket for you.

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Did you read my OP? That's got 10m range. And it's tiny. It's nothing to do with downmarket or upmarket, it's simple functionality.


Thanks to everyone else for the input - the JL guys couldnt agree on what products would give full Apple Music functionality and what ones wouldn't. Nor could they demonstrate. I'm going to a small independent place during the week, hoping for better service!

[Lefty]

Yep, was looking at Bose Soundtouch but they couldnt get the Bluetooth to work!

Very surprised to be honest, usually the staff in there are excellent