Audio Pro Drumfire
Large, loud and lots of fun, Audio Pro’s 300-Watt Drumfire speaker duo is a multiroom lion among the hyenas
A whole stack of hi-fi oomph
Uptown top spanking That top unit is a solid speaker in its own right. It’s called the D-1 and costs £350. It does feel a bit flat on its own – but that’s just as well, because buying it without the subwoofer would be like buying cannoli without the filling.
I’ve seen the sources Bluetooth, Airplay, Works with Alexa, Spotify Connect, major streaming services, NAS drives, turntables, CD players, DJ controllers, Wi-fi presets: the Drumfire can cope with it all… but forget Chromecast built-in. £650 / stuff.tv/drumfire
■ The Audio Pro Drumfire is a disastrous proposition in a national lockdown, because to get anywhere close to its 300W limit you really need the neighbours to be out, or better still residing in the next postcode. You can even stereo-pair two, although we’re too frightened.
■ Looking like a luxury guitar amp stack, it’s actually two devices in one, wrapped in faux leather with hand-stitched threads, topped off by an aluminium control panel and accents. It’s beautifully conceived and a sophisticated statement piece when placed in a corner.
■ The lower half is home to an 8in long-throw 200W subwoofer with phase and crossover controls. The top half is a class-d amplifier with two 1in textile-domed tweeters and two more long-throw woofers, this time 4.5 inches each. That’s a lot of woof.
■ It’s hugely versatile in terms of connectivity, but there are a couple of caveats. With Bluetooth 4 and Apple Airplay you can only enable multiroom via the Audio Pro app, and so can’t mix and match with other speaker brands.
■ All is forgiven once you fire it up and run it in, because hand on heart this is the loudest, most belly-rumbling but also sophisticated and subtle speaker stack we’ve clapped ears on outside of a gig venue. Combine two and you’d create a truly colossal PA system.
Tech specs
Audio 300W, 2x 1in tweeters, 2x 4.5in woofers, 1x 8in sub Connectivity Bluetooth 4, Wi-fi, Apple Airplay, RCA, 3.5mm aux, Ethernet Dimensions 650x520x190mm, 16.6kg