IKEA Eneby: The Best $50 Bluetooth Speaker?
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Bluetooth speakers are nothing new. But could a speaker from IKEA that costs $50 -- and sounds awesome -- be too good to be true?
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You've turned a simple bluetooth speaker review into a work of art. Dang it Colin!
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@Luis Roland flixportal :P
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@Luis Roland You are welcome xD
Although you have to buy the battery it also means you can change the battery (which you can't do with other speakers) especially if you take it camping or an all nighter at the beach.
Coming from another creator here on CZcams, I want to say that II always enjoy your videos. You make your long-form videos seem so effortless which tells me that you likely put a lot of thought into it prior. They say the hardest thing is to make something simple. Thank you again for making these videos! 🙏🙏🙏
I ended up buying one of these yesterday thanks to this review. And honestly, they are INCREDIBLE. I got the small one with the battery too but I’ve never heard anything like it. Sounds at least twice the price.
It really sounds good to me too
Went from Ikea to another electronics store, Eneby made every JBL up to the Charge 4 sound like crap. Didn't bother to check any other JBL's, not planning to spend 200 when I can get this good sound quality for €70.
@@OttosTheName Even now, at least two years later, I still love my Eneby. The sound quality is still unmatched for the price.
@@cleanycloth Nice to hear! I'm from the homeland of Ikea and heard of it first time today and picked one up. It shined up The kitchen! 😊
Probably one of the reasons this thing seems to work so well, despite Audio not exactly being one of Ikea's key strengths, is that it was actually a partnership with Sonos that created this speaker. I imagine Ikea just handled the design. I'd love to demo these at some point or another, but driving to an Ikea for speakers is odd. Maybe if I decide to also get a Swedish Meatball lunch as well one day.
Great review, Colin! Color me impressed with the design of this one!
You should definitely update your review now that the Gen 2 is out and can be paired in stereo mode with another Eneby 20.
I just bought this and I absolutely loooove it! It sounds amazing and it looks great. This review is spot on.
Good review with great camerawork to boot!
Really fascinating to see this as I have been considered getting my own Bluetooth speaker but I didn't want to spend a fortune on one, but also didn't want one that sounded bad. This looks perfect ^_^
Never thought I'd have to use the words craftsmanship and product review in the same sentence. You, dear sir, have earned a new subscriber.
I had to leave a comment. The filming, editing, and commentary were absolutely fantastic here. You outdid yourself, and many others with this review.
Also have to mention, the segment that starts around 2:07 is brilliant. Carrying the mic in, then the pan with the mic in place and the seemless cut from source material to microphone capture is genius (not to mention letting the tune build behind your commentary in the lead-up, then letting it continue past the comparison).
Great look at, and listen of, Eneby. Keep up the terrific work sir.
Love the styling, especially with the grill removed.
What I like is the design invites customization with its simple easy to paint shape and a removable fabric grill that begs to be dyed.
I am tempting one of these. The fact it has a line level in as well juet sweetens the deal.
I had a listen today, and I agree they sound great for such an inexpensive loudspeaker. Whomever designed them are applying active equalization to compensate for flaws in the frequency response of their drivers, sort of like what SonarWorks and Dirac are doing with headphones. The smaller Eneby 20 does sound more neutral in the mid-range than the bigger Eneby 30, though I suspect the latter will play louder.
I'm sure there's some amount of EQ going on, but I suspect it's less than one might expect -- probably just a low-frequency bump due to the relatively small woofer size.
@@ThisDoesNotCompute From factory there is no EQ applied. Just well engineered product with appropriately sized up enclosure and a bass reflex. That is why it sounds more neutral than most DSP over processed Bluetooth speakers. The crossover is handled electronically - yet another benefit to sound clarity. The bass and the treble (effectively an EQ) can be adjusted via main volume control. (check the manual) Cheers!
Outstanding review! Will purchase.
Basedon this in-depth investigation (seriously, you do WAY more than just review,) I finally got a couple of Eneby 20s to use in stereo for my "Retro gaming corner" and they're absolutely brilliant with my Windows XP gaming rig playing music while playing games.
Far better than they have any right to be.
Thank you Colin!
Colin uploads = I hit like before even watching.
I'll check the video out in a second when I'm done work :D
I'm amazed by how much better and more affordable BT got over the years. My first pair of BT headphones were big, awful, ugly, and cost me like 150 bucks. I got a new pair recently that is DRASTICALLY better in every way (the sound is incredible and most people would be hardpressed to tell the difference from wired) and it cost a third of that.
Great video thank you. I'd have loved to see a mention of competing speakers.
Since IKEA partnered with Sonos for speakers, this review give me hope we will see some good low priced Sonos-compatible speakers later that year.
Got one of these in the UK. Looks great, sounds great - for the price I think it's really decent.
Talk more about E3 plz. Love to hear your thoughts on Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.
about that it can pair with another one, well, a lot of smartphones have that feature built in for connecting into several bt speakers and listen to them at the same time or if don't, there are apps, idk if ios can
I have one of these, it's the absolute bomb. Legitimately sounds just as good, if not better than my overpriced BOSE bluetooth speaker. Which was something like $600 new
To me bluetooth speakers are common in many stores, but since I usually use my headphones and our family has different preferences about what to watch or hear, we don't find any meaning in those products, but for those who want them, while mono, the audio quality seems good at least in my current KLM headphones.
Sick channel, thanks for sharing
Sold! Our wireless charger is also an ikea model. Quality at a good price!
Excellent mic quality!
I'm surprised you didn't have to put the whole thing together yourself. Unlike some others have mentioned, the battery being sold separately doesn't really bother me. This would be perfect for my apartment balcony instead of blasting my Klipsch R-15M speakers through the living room (upsetting my neighbors in the process) . How long is the power cord? Nice review BTW
Nice video! Are you going to be doing anything special for when you hit 100K subs? Can't be far off now!
I wonder how the sound quality compares to the symfonisk considering they have the same or similar drivers.
Get some Rit dye and you could easily personalize the cloth grill.
Could you please upload an original vs. Ikea sound comparison, but both in mono. The stereo sound of the original adds a better sound feeling, and the mono a more shallow one because of the lacking dimension feeling, so the comparison is a bit 'unfair'.
I have a bluetooth transmitter on my tv. Could I connect two of these speakers at once to the transmitter?
I love that it has a replaceable battery, unlike most other bluetooth speakers. It has a much longer lifespan.
that speaker could get me into an Ikea store
The problem is that you can't order them from their online store(at least when I checked). You have to go to one of their physical stores, and the nearest Ikea to me is kind of far from me. Not worth it to drive that far for a bluetooth speaker.
the sound is powerful...clean sound
To set up a stereo pair I'm going to use a 3.5mm Stereo Male to Dual 3.5mm Mono Male Audio Cable, and plug into two ENEBY's for a big stereo sound!
It can’t really compete to the larger jbl portable speakers but it does sound really good for that price
What is the music at 0:30 called? Yes I looked atte description, but the song is not there :(
the only thing i wish for is to make it a tiny bit bigger with stereo. If they made the better enby, but with a battery pack option
EXCUSE me but did you for some reason mention, threaded inserts?
You should do a bass test
Designed by ultracool Teenage Engineering. That vouches for a really nice product
I buy one and it’s AMAZING!
This looks great, I have no need for a bluetooth speaker but i did this would be the one i would go with. That said the lack of Stereo seems odd.
There's an updated version now, which does support stereo link.
Question: 2 paired Eneby 20 or 1 Stereo Eneby 30?
I have the larger one, my issue with it is that it automatically shuts down after some time with no audio. Which is a good feature for battery powered devices, but the larger one only supports wall power. It destroyed my plan of using this with a Chromecast audio, as I have to get up and turn on the speaker each time.
Yeah thats my only problem with it
I bought this ENEBY to use it together with a bluetooth turntable AUDIO TECHNICA AT-LXBT-120BT. It doesn´t work. Why ?
I have checked out quickly this speaker in IKEA and the sound was not good, due to totally lack of treble ( Bass level was very good). My small JBL speaker for about 20 EUR is mach better. Does anybody know if it is possible to adjust Bass and treble within this speaker?
You said Bluetooth 4.0 - does anybody know what advantages these different 'versions' of BT have? Like, surely, once you're able to transmit audio from a device to a speaker back in BT 1.0 whenever, that should be it right? What more do we need to innovate/improve by subsequent BT versions? Or, to put it another way, why should I buy a speaker that has 4.0 over, say, a cheaper one that only has 1.0 or 2.0??
Peanut Turner basically newer versions have better audio quality and some extra range and better connectivity. $50 is getting really good for a small Bluetooth speaker, some like this have new features that will last longer than a cheaper Bluetooth 1,2 as they will eventually become obsolete and faster than a Bluetooth 3,4 device
the new bluetooth versions also have support for much lower energy usage modes, allowing them to be used with much smaller devices/batteries
I know that BT4 has features such as media controls like play/pause, next/rewind etc. over BT3. And yeah, better quality, I presume better data transfer rates, etc.
Bluetooth 1.0 was probably never out for real. 1.1 and 1.2 contain important fixes, such as avoiding failure in presence of WiFi. These all support just HFP, hands free profile, which is sufficient to transfer speech to be transmitted over a 4KHz band limited phone channel. You don't do music over HFP.
2.0 added EDR, radically increasing data rate, and further 2.x versions fine tuned that to make it more reliable. This is where A2DP protocol was first implemented, which is suitable to transfer music, and it comes with simple lossy compressor SBC, which isn't too bad but has audible issues. AVRCP has also been added then, using this protocol the host can convey to the remote the name of song/artist/video and receive volume, pause, skip and fast-forward/reverse commands from the remote.
3.0 added lots of things not used for audio, but also stream priorities, which can be relevant for audio.
4.0 and newer versions add and fine-tune a completely new and incompatible with prior Bluetooth versions Bluetooth Low Energy mode which cannot be used for audio. So when audio manufacturers claim compliance with that, they still exclude BLE and it's of zero relevance in this specific instance.
Mandated quality has stayed the same ever since 2.0, but some manufacturers made use of enhanced reliability of the link to provide somewhat better quality, though they usually didn't. BT3 devices often include additional proprietary additions not related to BT3 per se like MP3 over A2DP and AAC over A2DP to avoid lossy audio recompression, with very limited host support, and BT4 devices often include AptX which was supposed to take off as a quasi standard for really high quality audio but didn't.
If I'm not mistaken Bluetooth 4.0 was the first one to support battery level indication of paired devices (e.g., your phone would be able to show that a connected device is at 80% battery level).
“..from a company not known for electronics”
Well I never thought I’d associate IKEA with napkins or snake plants either but here we are
I'm so frustrated that they didn't just sell a stereo pair of these without bluetooth. I want these as PC speakers.
Just get an aux in 2way splitter and you'll be able to connect 2 of them. That's what I did.
I saw these in the store today and was taken aback by the sound. The larger version is more impressive and the lamp version even more so as it's physically smaller.
It's amazing how far speaker technology has advanced.
too bad it doesn't seem like its available in Canada yet...
Now i'm really freakin' *PISSED* ... I just bought myself the Frekvens without the subwoofer and as always i don't research the others stuff well enough. Luckily it was on sale so i didn't pay full price for it. My issue that pisses me off is the latency... it's bearable but just barely. I haven't found a way to connect it to my PC without bluetooth since the Line-in and out doesn't seem to do anything.
u can plug a chromecast into it and multiroom them!
que? please explain lol
Hi, I hope you or anyone here can answer my question. On multiple occasions and on multiple devices, I seem to experience loss of audio when playing music via Bluetooth from my phone. Sometimes it's a guitar solo that's either very faint or even absent, sometimes a vocal track etc. Internet doesn't seem to know anything about it. Maybe you or anyone here recognises this and maybe someone even knows what causes it.
@dandanthetaximan that is what one would think, however, I've experienced this in several cars with stereo systems too.
Could you use the AUX ports on two speakers to have a stereo set from a A/V receiver?
No you can't.. 😕 It would be really cool because it's mono
Just use something like this: www.amazon.com/Hosa-YMM-261-Stereo-Breakout-Cable/dp/B000068O5H
Exact volume matching could become an issue, tough.
Now they need a speaker inside of a couch.
There's an Eneby for that lol. The builtin :)
Regards from Bavaria
IKEA has been bushing towards making quality audio content and furniture that accomodate them.
I tried it in the store and either my mobile equelizer settings weren't on par or the speaker was just okay-ish.
Though I completely agree with you with the 50$ price - it's a good choice.
Another thing that annoyed me is the mono sound. If you walk around it you can clearly hear its weakspots.
*Needs assembling*
Alternatively, if you are on an even tighter budget you can place most any cheap-o Bluetooth speaker that you may already have inside a Homer’s All-Purpose Bucket and call it a day. I take it that if you are in the market for an inexpensive compact Bluetooth device than true high fidelity and audio transparency is not your paramount priority anyway. It is a cute product though and would make a nice gift for a friend or relative.
Or we can say 500 Swedish kronor + 200 Swedish kronor for a battery 😂😂😂😂
Damn.. 70€ over here
That design took my breath away. Can they pair to give stereo output?
Unfortunately not :( That would have made an amazing stereo set.
I'd like us to discuss something : is bluetooth a good choice for audio, period? I know it's practical. But is the sound quality satisfying to audiophile ears? I personally don't have much experience with BT sound transmition, hence why I'm asking for opinions. but I've seen many articles by supposed experts, that say this technology is a bit subpar for sound transmission. If the case, shouldn't we go with Airplay instead?
FinalBaton i'm no audiophile but i'm pretty sure a real one would say no wireless headphone or speaker beats a wired device + airplay is owned by apple so i bet the licensing cost would be immense.
Yea bluetooth sounds pretty bad, but this thing has a 3.5 mm input so it's not really a problem
Honestly I think Bluetooth sounds just fine. I can’t tell a difference between wired and wireless, in fact wireless was better on my MDRs since it had bass boost that would only work over Bluetooth.
If you want to send sound over bluetooth you have to heavily compress it while if you use a physical cable you can easily use lossless/uncompressed files if you wanted to. Yes I know that this speaker isn't exactly audiophile quality and that difference may not be as obvious as it would be on a higher end one but as a general rule with bluetooth you loose a lot of sound fidelity.
@@Laurabeck329 but Bluetooth versions are better every update
it is 70$ :) you need to buy the battery also
The battery is only necessary if you want to use the speaker without plugging into AC power.
@@ThisDoesNotCompute thanks for the info.
So its 70$, not 50. Or else its just not a complete product xD
If it doesn't come with an Allen key.. it's not from you IKEA
Now it's more like 99$
There's only one thing wrong with the Eneby speaker... It's not possible to pair two to stereo(!)
So that means in order to have stereo your transmitting device has to support two and split signals to them. It exists but it's quite rare. I believe all that's needed is a firmware update. So much a bummer. Not only would many more buy Enebys - most people would also not just buy one but two(!)
Now you can
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I believe you should say the speaker is 70 if it doesn't include the battery.
Not everyone necessarily wants the battery, and the speaker works fine without it...that’s likely how IKEA got the price down to $50. It’s not as portable as other Bluetooth speakers with built-in batteries, and they’re not really advertising it as such. (The bigger model doesn’t even support batteries at all, interestingly.)
Its made by b&o Im sure lol
I doubt it sounds better than the Anker SoundCore 2
Is it the speaker designed by Teenage Engineering ?
no
Its not 50$ its 70 $ you want the battery too.
or 80 without battery in eu 🤔
@@kidzblck Not in Sweden or Denmark. Maybe you looked at the larger model, it is like 80€.
@@aaba112 In Poland bigger one is ~105$ and a smaller one is ~79$, sad - 50$ is a perfect pricetag
kidzblack sorry for that. I checked and in Germany it is 50€ aswell so something is special in Poland. At least your restaurants and beer have low prices. Was in Krakow last year 😊
Hunger floorence
Actually this speaker is made by Teenage Engineering
,a company that does Synthetizers and other stuff related with Sound design!They did the OP-1 and the Pocket Operators and many more!!
To play in Stereo theres another different model,you can buy one speacker with one sub woofer (FREKVENS)for 150 and for 60 you can buy the other speaker that way having a 2.1 system ;)
There's no device that connects multiple devices at the same time.
It's odd that IKEA makes you buy the battery separately. Not a very consumer-friendly strategy.
Or it is. If you just want to use it at home then you wont need a battery.
Well.. for 50$ you got the 2.1 Logitech X-230 back in the days.. all these speakers are a ripp of..
It’s not 50, it’s 70...
i find it upsetting to look at
bit of a ripoff having to pay extra for the battery, looks stylish and understated though.
Same factory as Sonos = Rubbish
First
No. Just, no.
Can we all just agree here that none of this technology is possible without the snapdragon master race😎 I phone? More like gay phone I'm I right 😄
How to basic Wow, what a dumb thing to say😂
this ain’t it g