Dynaudio Music 1 Wireless Music System
£475/$495
Dynaudio’s Music 1 Intelligent
Wireless Music System is a portable Wi-fi or Bluetooth speaker that can sense where it has been placed and optimise its sound performance accordingly. It will even adjust itself on the fly if you decide to reposition it mid-track, ensuring that it delivers the best sound quality at all times. This was a feature that we were very keen to test as soon as we unboxed and powered up the device.
Range of Music
Before we get to the sound quality though, let us examine what features the Music 1 brings to the audio banquet. Danish company, Dynaudio is synonymous for creating high-end loud speakers for living rooms, pro recording studios and cars and its ‘Music’ range is its first foray into multiroom speakers that come in different shapes and sizes to slot into the rooms of your home and provide a continuous swirl of sound as you walk through it. Other models include the Music 3, 5 and 7 (no even numbers here) that increase in size and output depending on the size of the space you are placing them in and they are all available in four different colours (dark grey, light grey, blue and red) to complement the decor in your home.
What’s instantly noticeable about the whole range of Dynaudio’s Music range of speakers is that the shape of them is very unconventional compared to other multiroom speakers. Angular, yet a lot more diminutive than the size of the box suggests, the Music 1 won’t exactly pale into the background of your room, yet it won’t be too imposing either.
Inside the shell is a one-inch soft-dome tweeter, a four-inch woofer and 80W of amplification with a built-in rechargeable battery that provides up to eight hours of continuous listening. It also comes with a power cable should you prefer to keep it based in one permanent location in your home, but it is fully portable, should you want to use it externally. The build is sturdy and of good quality. The unit features playback controls on the top, USB, AUX and power ports on the back, volume controls on one edge and a signal meter on the other. And it sits on a rubber base meaning it won’t mark whatever surface you place it on.
Music at your fingertips
The full range of Music speakers come with a free nine-month Tidal membership, and this plays a huge part in the appeal of the speaker. This streaming service works alongside Dynaudio’s own Music Now app to learn your musical tastes and play songs and automatically generate radio stations based on the music you love at the touch of a button – ideal if you don’t want to select what you listen to manually. It works phenomenally well too and we certainly didn’t experience any duff selections based on our listening history.
As we mentioned earlier, the Music 1 features Roomadapt, a system that uses its advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and autonomous sensors to deliver the best possible sound regardless of where you place it in the room.
And this, coupled with Noiseadapt, sensors that continually monitor and analyse the noise levels in the room (and make adjustments to the sound levels it pumps out accordingly), ensures that your music always sounds great. Putting this to the test we got great results when placing the Music 1 on a raised surface in the corners of a room or even centrally – although it didn’t sound as great when placed on a work surface in the kitchen next to the gin bottles!
Although we’re not massively sold on the design, as a portable speaker the Music 1 more than holds its own against the other Bluetooth speakers at the top of their game.
Verdict
The design won’t be to everyone’s taste but this portable speaker utilises the latest technology to deliver stunning, carefully curated sound anywhere.