Definitive Technology - W9 Dual 5-1/4" 180W 2-Way Wireless Speaker (Each) for Streaming Music - Black

I bought a Definitive Technology W9 to try one out. The sound quality alone impressed me enough, I bought a second one the following week. The W9 has a lot of punch in the mid bass frequency, due to the dual 5 1/4" drivers. The soft dome tweeters produce clear, natural highs. Dialog is easy to understand because the mids are well balanced. An unexpected feature is the DTS communication between the W9, the smaller W7, and the W Studio Soundbar. I returned to buy the W Studio Soundbar. The free app allows you to connect all of the W9's, the W7's and the W Studio's you may own, in a whole house music system that is super easy to use. You can connect virtually any online music stream from Sirius XM to Pandora & many others to any W devices, or all W devices at once! Because I use Apple Airport Express' to convey sound to various rooms throughout the house in an existing network, I plugged an Airport Express into the optical digital input of the W9. The attached photo shows one W9 with the Airport Express sitting on top of the wireless speaker. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND the W9! They sound very similar to the discontinued Bowers & Wilkins W7, which I use and also connect via Airport Express because the wireless receiver in the B&W is very weak & constantly drops a signal. I have recently shipped my B&W for service: that cost a lot, and the B&W suffers from software issues, which the Definitive Technology does not. The W9 is the best sounding wireless speaker I have auditioned & purchased to date!

I was contemplating between the W7 and th W9 on my original purchase. I did purchase the W7 and after listening to how good the W7 I had to go back and pickup the W9 since it was on sale. The W9 is even better than the W7 and that was already really good. I wish the W9 came in white like the W7 but I'll make it work in my decor. Easy to setup to the wifi but I found out that to use the Aux input you have to manually select the inputs from the front controls located on the speaker and not from the app. It would of been great if the app had the capability to select the Aux input like selecting the different streaming apps to listen to music. Both the W7 and W9 has this one limitation and no bluetooth capability is one downfall of this speaker, but DTS play-fi works well. Had some intermittent issue streaming from my iPhone 6 but that went away.

I originally went to Best Buy to purchase the Sonos speaker, but after listening to this one, I was sold. I have it placed on a bookcase shelf in my living room and it fills the whole floor with sound. I can hear it upstairs as well. The sound is great, it looks nice and I think it's well worth the money.