How much do you know about the difference between a WiFi speaker and a bluetooth speaker?

Bluetooth speaker is a very familiar consumer electronics, so how much do you know about WiFi speaker? Let's take a look！

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Since the beginning of this year, WiFi speakers have entered a era of opening in the first year, but for many consumers, why pay for a WiFi speaker, since it is a wireless speaker, why not choose a more familiar Bluetooth speaker? Through our previous survey, we found that the main reason why many people do not choose WiFi speakers is the lack of understanding of WiFi speakers. To put it bluntly, they don’t know the difference between WiFi speakers and Bluetooth speakers, and today we are Let's introduce to friends, although it is a wireless music listening solution, but there is a difference between Bluetooth speakers and WiFi speakers.

working principle:

First of all, let's talk about the difference between them, then we must first know how they work differently. The working principle of Bluetooth speakers is to connect with Bluetooth playback devices such as mobile phones, tablets and notebooks through the built-in Bluetooth chip, and then play them on the device. With or with resources on the network that is collected on the device for playback, the power consumption is low, and the one-to-one transmission method is used to ensure good privacy. 

The WiFi speaker is connected to the external network through a wireless router, and then connected to the speaker through a mobile phone, a tablet, etc., and the music is pushed to the speaker for playback through a multimedia protocol such as Air Play, DLNA, and Q Play. The transmission capacity is strong, multiple devices can be connected, and the sound source is diverse.

Of course, this is just a small aspect of the difference between the two wireless speakers introduced from the working principle. Let's take a look at the specific difference between WiFi speakers and Bluetooth speakers, so that we can better understand WiFi speakers, learn more about wireless audio playback devices.

Point 2: Transmission quality and cost are different

Transmission quality:

The sound quality of wireless speakers has always been the place where many people criticize the most. The main reason is that the wireless Bluetooth speaker transmission rate is not high enough to meet the requirements for lossless music playback. So, between Bluetooth speakers and WiFi speakers, There is a big difference. 

First of all, let's look at the traditional Bluetooth speakers. The bandwidth is generally below 24Mbps (Bluetooth 4.0), which simply does not meet the demand of transmitting high-quality music. This is also an important reason why many people have said that the sound quality of wireless speakers is not good. 

Nowadays, the basic bandwidth of WiFi speakers can be guaranteed above 150Mbps. The transmission effect of lossless music and video has been greatly improved. Many people have also experienced the true meaning of HiFi from WiFi speakers.

Different costs:

In addition to the different transmission quality, the difference in cost is also the reason why Bluetooth speakers and WiFi speakers are the most difficult for users to accept. The price of an ordinary Bluetooth speaker can be controlled at around 50 yuan, and most of the WiFi on the market. The price of the speakers is basically more than a thousand dollars. What is this?
In fact, the most important reason for this is because the WiFi speaker needs to be plugged in a CPU, so as to check the IP password address, even if there is no CPU, it needs an MCU to ensure the work, and the Bluetooth speaker does not need to consider this completely. The price of a CPU used by a WiFi speaker is basically more than 10 dollars. In addition to the technical cost, it is not so surprising to sell a thousand yuan. The overall technology of the bluetooth speaker is relatively mature, and the cost control is relatively Better, so we can find Bluetooth speakers with a price of tens of dollars in the market.

Point 3: Point to point and one to many

Point to point and one to many:

Here we talk about one of the biggest differences between WiFi speakers and Bluetooth speakers, that is, the interconnection of multiple speakers, different from the one-to-one or one-on-two of Bluetooth speakers, WiFi speakers can achieve the multi-speaker interconnection for individual playback or overall playback needs . In other words, if you are using a WiFi speaker, you can think of your phone as a control terminal, and use the app to control different rooms' WiFi speakers to play different music. 

The main reason for this function is that the WiFi speakers are basically under one network. The mobile phone can see the playback tracks of each room through the APP, and can also add different track lists to other rooms for centralized control. Using WiFi speakers, you can compose them into a pair of 2.0 systems for playback. Different channels use different WiFi speakers for playback, and the playability is very high. 

Different from the traditional point-to-point playback of Bluetooth speakers, WiFi speakers can achieve one-to-many playback, which is more suitable for playing in the home environment, meeting the different playback and listening needs of users.

Point 4: The push method is different

Bluetooth speaker push mode:

First of all, let's take a look at the push mode of the bluetooth speaker. We can break it down into several instructions. First we need to download the data to the client of the mobile phone, then decode the audio through the mobile phone, and then convert the MP3 into Bluetooth. The encoded audio streaming media finally transmits the decoded sound file to the speaker and passively plays through the speaker. This way is relatively rigid for listening to music. Before listening, it requires complicated and complicated pairing steps and needs complete dependence. The phone plays.

WiFi speaker push method:

In comparison, the playback of WiFi speakers is more liberalized. First, it transmits the link of the sound file to the WiFi speaker through the WiFi transmission protocol. The WiFi speaker will actively download it and decode it directly on the speaker. Play, this transmission method has a faster transmission speed, and the higher bandwidth WiFi speaker transmits more high-quality audio files, and now many mainstream online music servers support the WiFi transmission protocol, which leads users to listen online. Massive music, the effect of listening is that there is no way to compare Bluetooth speakers.

Point 5: Listening to music does not delay watching the video

Multitasking

For many friends who use Bluetooth speakers, they have encountered such a problem, that is, when they listen to music, they suddenly want to watch a video. At this time, the music can only be turned off first, then the music in the video is played, that is to say When you listen to music on your mobile phone, you can only listen to music. Many other things related to sound can't be done. The audio of the mobile phone is all output. 

But for the WiFi speaker, this is completely no problem, because the WiFi speaker works completely independently and does not occupy the audio channel of the mobile phone. Even if you listen to music with the WiFi speaker, you can use the mobile phone to watch the video. It doesn't affect each other, which means you can play your favorite background music while watching the video, and listen to it more comfortable. 

In addition, the transmission distance and wall penetration capability of the WiFi speaker is better. It has been introduced by friends in the front. In fact, the mobile phone is more like a remote control terminal in the WiFi speaker. After the speaker starts playing, it can be used separately from the mobile phone. The speakers can be played according to the preset playlists, no matter where you go, it will not affect the work of the WiFi speakers, so that you can truly feel free to listen.

to sum up:

In fact, when you look at it, the WiFi speaker can be used to listen to it without the Bluetooth speaker. You can enjoy a lot of music resources, play higher quality music, and enjoy multi-room listening. Happiness and so on, is one of the audio products that will bloom in 2016.