Customer Ratings & Reviews

One thing I loved about this speaker was the overall look and feel. It has a classic rock and roll kind of vibe going on, and would look great in your garage, man cave, or just about anywhere really. The solidly built case has a very nice leather (no, it isn’t real leather - the Stanmore is actually made with 70% recycled plastic and only vegan materials if that’s important to you) look and feel to it, with a cloth speaker cover that has a gold Marshall logo front and center. The metal power toggle switch screams power & practicality begs you to turn it on! I think the sound quality is fairly good. My son thought it was a little ‘boomie’, but he’s always been more sensitive to bass frequencies than most people I know, so take that with a grain of salt. The sound stage is a bit directional, but it’s acceptable considering the form factor. Will it “chase you around the room” as the marketing suggests, definitely not, but it does okay. The app is pretty basic, but that kind of goes along with the overall theme of the speaker anyway, so I’d say that’s a good thing. You can control the bass, treble, and volume. The red LED’s on the physical control panel change along with any changes you make in the app, so that’s a nice touch as well. Other than that, it can control (pause, play, etc…) the music you’re streaming, and facilitate firmware updates. The physical control panel lets you change inputs (bluetooth, aux & RCA), bass, treble, rewind/pause/play/forward (if using the bluetooth input), and the previously mentioned massive power toggle. Speaking of the power toggle, it seems backwards in my opinion, as you pull it towards you (down in relation to the text) to turn the unit on. Maybe that’s just me though. I think the biggest miss for the Stanmore is its lack of wifi. For a speaker approaching $400, I’d expect wifi capabilities. The inability to ‘cast’ music from my Spotify or SiriusXM app is a big let down, and coupled with the price, is probably why I couldn’t recommend this speaker to my friends. Seriously, who doesn’t hate it when you’re listening to some tunes with friends, then whoever happens to be connected to the bluetooth speaker walks to another area and the music starts cutting out. Party foul. Overall, if your primary goal is to achieve a retro rock & roll aesthetic, then the Stanmore is the way to go. If you want functionality & performance, there are better options in this price range.

There are some real improvements over the previous generation of this model. For one, it's bigger, which is going to enable better low-end performance. The first thing I test with a new speaker is how well it handles music with a lot of bass. This one handles all but the very lowest frequencies. And for those frequencies, you're not really going to expect any speaker to handle them unless it's a subwoofer. There is an improvement in the controls as well. The old model had a spring-loaded power switch that you would have to hold down for a couple of seconds to turn on or off. You either had to stand there and watch the lights to see when it was on or listen for the little guitar riff it would play when it powered up or down. This one has a simple bat switch. It still looks nice, but it's either on or off, no waiting and listening. The app allows you to adjust bass and treble for rudimentary equalization controls, mimicking the dials on the unit itself, and it also allows for "position compensating," modifying the sound output based on whether it's near the edge of a shelf or a wall. This really is a top of the line bluetooth shelf speaker (with the ability to accommodate line input too) with looks to match.

Excellent sounds and quality. Nostalgic feel and appearance. Very happy about this purchase!

Love my Marshall! Amazing sound, quality and looks great in my living room.

Great speaker cant say enough good things about it

Fantastic blue tooth speaker. Sound quality is excellent, simple solid state speake!

NICE UNIT, COULD HAVE A BIT MORE VOLUME OUTPUT BUT SOUND QUALITY IS GOOD.

Highly recommended! I currently have this in my living room and it sounds amazing

Best speaker on the market. Its just great, I love it

Beautiful design. Works great, definitely recommend it.

This thing looks cool and sounds awesome. Would recommend

The sound is great but the speaker itself is so irritating I wish I had bought something else because of one thing: It shuts off. That's right. If you walk away for 20 minutes and come back, it will be shut off, so you have to CONSTANTLY turn it back on, again and again and again. Terrible design. It has no battery, it has to stay plugged in at all times.