No idea how these sound (hopefully better than they look) but having recently purchased a set of Bluetooth speakers, I am a fan of the concept.
Obviously at this price point one must keep their expectations in check. Still, in these trying economic times, a set of $165 speakers might be all one can swing--there's no shame in that.
Certainly one of the benefits of a set of Bluetooth speakers is convenience; it's damn handy to be able to shoot tunes directly from your computer, phone, or tablet to a set of speakers across the room. True, these speakers only speak common Bluetooth 4.0 rather than that new, snooty 5.0 version, but they do employ that aptX codec/mojo so, for average-ish quality files, you'll still hear what's to be heard.
One of the short comings at this price is speaker to speaker connectivity. Yes, they are Bluetooth speakers, but they are not "wireless" speakers. Both speakers must to be connected to one another with good old fashioned speaker wire. One assumes (because it isn't specifically made clear the description or specs), that only the main C5BT speaker requires a power connection.
I mention the above because that's NOT the way all Bluetooth speakers work. The Edifiers I have are not connected to one another by wire (they use some kind of proprietary black magic to sink the two speakers together without wire). Once you ditch that wired connection requirement, you can get pretty creative with placement (no need to worry about stringing wire up and around furniture or under carpet). On the other hand, the Edifiers use (2) powered amplifiers in each speaker, and therefore, each speaker requires a power cord (and socket to plug into).
In other words, no matter how much you pay for Bluetooth speakers (the Edifiers are a boat-load more), one way or another, we're you're never quite as done with wire and cable as you'd like to be. Perhaps one day Nikola Tesla will return from the grave and show us how to transmit 110 volt current wirelessly, along with our sound waves? Maybe in Bluetooth 6.0 or 7.0?
Anyway, whether you go cheap or higher-end, Bluetooth speakers aren't the worst way to go--I'm certainly dig'n mine.
Rowdy2026
That would add two more things to my already annoyingly long list of stuff I have to worry about keeping charged.
And they wouldn’t sound like a good set of Edifiers, either.