Audioengine B2 Wireless Bluetooth Music Speaker

"Excellent" Rating, PCMag.com

Streaming Made Easy and Excellent

Wirelessly stream all your music from any Bluetooth-enabled device. Your computer, iDevice, or Android phone already has Bluetooth, so get more out of your music with the Audioengine B2. Experience award-winning Audioengine stereo sound, including a hand-built wood cabinet, Bluetooth aptX, 24-bit upsampling DAC, and extended wireless range.

"Audioengine’s B2 Bluetooth speaker sounds as good as it looks. It’s as simple as that," notes Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes magazine for November 25, 2014. "It plays loud, is simple yet attractive, and has some great touches that make it one of the best BT speakers going."

"Bass is Smooth and Powerful"

PCMag.com gave the B2 an overall rating of "Excellent" on December 4, 2014. "Accurate, mids-focused sound signature. Attractive, simple design. Easy to set up and use."

"Bass is smooth and powerful like you never have heard from such a speaker," reports John Nemerovski, MyMac.com, December 8, 2014.

Easy Setup

Setup and pairing is unbelievably easy. Just turn on the B2's power switch, and the B2 will automatically go into pair mode. On your tablet, computer, or smartphone, turn on Bluetooth and select "Audioengine B2" to pair and connect. Play your music and adjust the volume. That's all there is to it.

Bluetooth Can Sound Bodacious

Upgrade your Bluetooth with the Audioengine B2. You already have Bluetooth on your tablet, computer, or iDevice, so get more out of it and experience stunning audio with the Audioengine B2.

The audio quality of most Bluetooth products isn't usually very inspiring and their limited range can be frustrating. The B2 solves these problems by implementing the aptX codec, which is a high-quality audio converter designed specifically for audio. The B2 also has special circuitry and a precision-tuned antenna to extend the wireless range, providing much more versatility than other Bluetooth speakers.

Filling the Gap

The hand-finished all-wood cabinet of the B2 reflects traditional Audioengine design and the high-quality components and audio fidelity are typical of Audioengine's commitment to great sound at affordable prices. The Audioengine B2 continues to close the gap between your computer music and home hi-fi and even if you're not an audio enthusiast, your music will sound better!

Low-noise, High-fidelity DAC

The B2 Bluetooth speaker system utilizes the TI PCM5102A DAC, widely known for it's low noise and high fidelity. This DAC pads all bit depths internally to 24-bits, thus achieving a higher signal-to-noise ratio. Due to the PCM5102A's high signal-to-noise specs, the fact that digital signal is converted (upsampled) to 24-bits and the added benefit of triple redundancy power source conversion and filtering, the B2 presents impressive low noise and low distortion characteristics with a noticeable improvement over other Bluetooth speakers.

Extended Wireless Range

Most Bluetooth speakers have very limited range, usually within just one room. But with careful signal management circuitry and antenna tuning, Audioengine offers a superior solution that will reach more than one room with no degradation in audio quality.

Custom-built Components

Audioengine designs and manufactures its own tweeters, woofers, and many other critical components. In other words, these are not "box built" speakers with off-the-shelf parts but entirely custom-designed to exacting specifications. What Audioengine does not fabricate directly in its speaker factory, it has custom-made to its designs (parts such as toroidal transformers, magnets, and wiring harnesses, for example). The cabinets, drivers, bass port designs, amplifiers, and crossovers are all painstakingly tuned together for each Audioengine model. This, in turn, makes for a much more efficient system that requires much less power than traditional AV stereo receivers and passive speakers.

Based on Studio Monitor Designs

Studio monitor speakers are used by producers and engineers in recording and production studios. They are designed with a theoretical flat frequency response which allows the engineer to create a final mix in such a way that the recorded music will sound good on most other speakers. Although Audioengine speakers are not designed to be up-close 'nearfield' studio monitors, they do carry over much of the same higher-end technology, components, and design philosophy.

Super Superior Drivers

Audioengine uses audiophile quality, ferro fluid cooled, silk dome tweeters with neodymium magnets. Silk tweeters hold up well under high power and the edge-driven design gives very smooth response. The custom woofers are Kevlar woven glass aramid composite with rubber surrounds. Kevlar is obviously very strong, which means that the woofer retains its shape when being driven at high levels. Because the speaker materials and construction are very robust, speaker grills aren’t needed. Audioengine did its homework on the speaker drivers so that they will sound and look great after many years of use.

Extensively Braced Cabinet

To minimize unwanted resonances and distortion, Audioengine cabinets have thick high-resin MDF walls with extensive internal bracing. Heavy internal sound-damping material reduces unwanted sound reflections inside the cabinet. Cabinet edges are rounded to look great and reduce high-frequency diffraction effects on the front baffles. The B2 cabinet has dual sub-enclosures to prevent cross-interference, each side with its own tuned, front-port bass slot.

Analog Power Amplifiers

The analog amplifiers in Audioengine speakers are a very conservatively rated analog design. Each subsystem is tuned together for all models, which provides a much more efficient system requiring less power than passive speakers and separate amplifiers.

Magnetically Shielded

Both drivers are magnetically shielded and allow the user to place the speakers within a few inches of a video monitor. This shielding also offers protection for hard-drive digital music players.

• Easy setup, connects in seconds
• No network setup, no hassle
• Superior sound and extended range up to 100ft
• Low-frequency drivers: 2 x 2.75” Kevlar woofers
• High-frequency drivers: 3/4“ silk dome tweeters
• Inputs: Bluetooth, 3.5mm stereo mini-jack
• Hand-built wood cabinet
• Dual front port slots for extended bass
• Acoustically isolated cabinet design with detachable magnetic grill
• Aux audio input
• Integrated power supply

• Power output: 60W peak total (15W RMS, 30W peak/ch), AES
• Amplifier type: Dual class AB monolithic
• Input voltages: 100-240V 50/60Hz auto-switching
• SNR: >90db (typical A-weighted)
• THD+N: <0.05% at all power settings
• Crosstalk: -50dB
• Frequency response: 65Hz-22kHz (±2.0dB)
• Supported Bluetooth profiles: aptX, A2DP and AVRCP
• Wireless operation range: Up to 100ft (30m) typical

"Excellent" Rating, PCMag.com

"Accurate, mids-focused sound signature. Attractive, simple design. Easy to set up and use."

- PCMag.com, December 4, 2014

"Audioengine’s B2 Bluetooth speaker sounds as good as it looks. It’s as simple as that. It plays loud, is simple yet attractive, and has some great touches that make it one of the best BT speakers going."

- Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes magazine, November 25, 2014

"B2 has excellent sound throughout its massive volume range, which is the test of a high quality speaker system. Lower levels are ideal for casual or background listening. Medium levels are perfect for enjoying fine music. High volume will keep a party dancing for hours, and annoy your neighbors until you invite them to boogie. Audioengine claims this product has 'dual front ports for extended bass,' and they are not kidding. Bass is smooth and powerful like you never have heard from such a speaker."

- John Nemerovski, MyMac.com, December 8, 2014