Bowers & WilkinsZeppelin Wireless Speaker, Iconic Design, 5 Drivers Including Subwoofer, Wireless Streaming via Bluetooth, Alexa Built-in, AirPlay & Spotify Connect, Multiroom Support, Pearl Grey

I can see people being scared off by the reviews here, but I’ve spent a lot of time with this speaker and have nothing close to buyer’s remorse.The connection does annoyingly stop working from time to time, and getting it reconnected can be a pain, but it always eventually comes back to life.The sound quality here is definitely, imho, worth the several hundred extra dollars you spend. I was looking for a medium/high-end wireless speaker, and this is that. It’s not going to sound as good as a good stereo system, obviously, but it fills up even large rooms, is really articulate, warm, balanced, great highs and great lows and great mids, etc. And yes, it looks elegant.

The media could not be loaded. Amazing speaker. Great sound quality and attractive appearance. Has good balanced bass, and crystal clear miss to highs. Been looking at this for a long time and glad I finally made the move to get it. I’m sure my video won’t do it justice.. (used royalty free song just so I don’t get into trouble🥴)

For the price I expect a lot more. I am comparing this against a Studio 8 Harmon Kardon. That speaker is a fraction of the cost of this one so I expected to seriously out perform it. The BW speaker is louder and the treble more pronounced, but its lacking low end bass extension like the HK speaker.The next glaring issue is connectivity. Its very slow and difficult to connect. If you walk away while it is connected it stutters and clicks loudly then loses connection. In order to reconnect you can try all the things the manual says, but unless you press the reset button on the back and start over you probably wont be able to reconnect. I tried multiple phones to connect to it and it was the same deal.This alone was enough to return it. Between the sound being poor for the price, and the connectivity issues I started a return. Hopefully that goes smoothly.Lastly these were advertised to have the same tweeters as their series 6 towers. I can assure thats not true. I have the series 6 towers. The treble is not even close to the what my towers sound like. I was not expecting this speaker to be as loud as my towers. I was expecting them to be my HK speakers.

I bought this for myself for Father’s Day, and holy cow, it’s just perfect. I have owned B&W headphones, wired and Bluetooth, and they have lasted decades, and this thing is built so well. It sounds stunning with a high-definition source like Apple Music lossless. Alexa works great, and controls everything in my home. It sits in my bedroom and more than fills the room. It’s so nice for listening as we start the day. It goes silent instantly, and very low power about 20 minutes after you say your last command or stop playing music. In fact, my only request is that the lovely LED light went dark sooner, or that you could tell Alexa to turn off the LED. (You can do it in the app, and it does for off itself after 20 minutes.)All-in-all, it’s one of the nicest pieces of audio kit I’ve ever owned, and I can’t recommend it enough. We got the grey, because I figured it would show less dust, but the black looks a little sexier to my eye. I guess I don’t care too much what it looks like. That’s just an extra benefit that it looks so good. What’s amazing is the sound. No distortion at any level. Just clean, well-balanced sound for any music. Right now it’s playing Tony Bennett, just before was the Beatles, and before that was Rush. It handles all of them.

I live in an Amazon Prime and iPhone household so was looking for a smart speaker which could move beyond spotty Bluetooth and allow me connect by Airplay and use Alexa voice control to play music. Currently the options satisfying both requirements include this speaker along with multiple offerings from Sonos and Bose. Out of that bunch I chose the Zeppelin based on aesthetics, brand preference, and generally positive reviews. I would be happy with my choice if it were not for one key issue. Alexa will not play music I have purchased digitally from Amazon even if it is also available to stream free via Prime. Sadly when I had posted a question about this up above B&W’s suggestion was that at the current time my best bet was to connect via Bluetooth from another Echo device. I decided to return the Zeppelin for the time being as there are a plethora of other airplay speakers that I can connect an echo dot if I decide to go the Bluetooth route. Until B&W fixes the issue, it may be worth exploring Bose and Sonos options if you just have Alexa built in. We also have a Bose Portable Home Speaker which doesn’t have any problem playing Amazon purchased music by Alexa command.

The speaker is divine. It’s gorgeous to look at, adding to your decoration. The sound is obviously amazing, filling the room with soul-punching bass even with the default profile. We use it 100% with AurPlay 2 which works seamlessly. Always there in the list of devices. The only ‘thing’, for me personally, is that I find myself trying to talk to it as though it was a HomePod. Obviously it doesn’t respond, but despite the sound quality being - for my ear - better than a single HomePod, and marginally better than two paired HomePods (original big ones) I find it frustrating not being able to control it with my voice. For me this device is easily worth the money, but the key is to find its place in your abode. Somewhere the design can shine, the sound can impress, and you won’t find yourself needing it to respond to your voice. Not sure if it has microphones which would enable a software update to implement third-party Siri, but that would make it the ultimate showpiece speaker. Overall, 5 stars and very happy with my purchase.