Audioengine B1 Premium Bluetooth Music Receiver


Anyone has tried this? It sells at $189.
Is it significantly better in audio quality than many cheap Bluetooth audio receivers starting from $20?
I have an HRT iStreamer, and I feel its audio quality is inferior to CD when played with Spotify.
I wonder whether B1 is at least as good as iStreamer.
Any thought?
thx
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Showing 1 response by mahler123

I have the Audioengine and it definitely takes Bluetooth to another level.  The same system has a Bluesound Node2 that offers Bluetooth and the Audioengine blows it away.
  Having said that, it’s Bluetooth, and won’t sound as good as a CD.  Spotify also won’t sound as good as a CD due to their compression algorithm.  So Spotify via Bluetooth ( that is actually why I added the Audioengine, so that I could stream Spotify) can sound decent, but you won’t mistake it for CD quality