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Dynaudio Music

An “intelligent” wireless music system, so Dynaudio declares its four-strong ‘Music’ collection of wireless speakers. They rise in size, power and abilities from the smaller Music 1 and 3, both with internal batteries allowing them to go walkabout, to the two larger domesticated models in the Music 5 and 7.

In this they seem quite similar to several other longer-standing offerings in the wireless multiroom speaker market. But Dynaudio does aim to deliver a difference, notably in sheer size with the Music 7, which presents itself an impressively wide 82cm from angled edge to angled edge, or 74cm across its button-laden brushed aluminium top. Even the Music 5 is still quite the presence. And of course Dynaudio’s longevity as a speaker manufacturer of renown gives some further expectation of quality to their build, and their audio performance.

All four models offer multiple paths to music. They all have Bluetooth, with the higher quality aptX codec if your Android phone supports it, whereas iPhone and Mac owners can achieve CD-quality streaming using AirPlay. When connected to your home Wi-Fi they can access internet radio, and they can be made to play music from DLNA-shared music on your network.

Then there are direct inputs, which rise through the range. They all have a USB slot into

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