Phorus PS5 Speaker - 24 bit / 192 kHz Hi-Res Music Streamer with Spotify, AirPlay, Windows Streaming, Bluetooth AptX, and Play-Fi

Great for streaming mp3 music thru out your home via Wifi. Once you get past the setup IP your homefree.The setup IP on one phone didn't stay connected long enough to finish setup. Had to switch to another phone which kept the setup IP connected long enough to finish the setup. So if you have trouble with setup try a different phone. After setup is complete you can use any smart phone with the app to send music to your speakers. Glad to have found these great sounding wifi enabled speakers at a reasonable price. The Audacy music option is great for free music streaming of any genre. I use an old phone with wifi to control mp3 music sent to the speakers. If battery is weak/dead keep old phone plugged in. Works for me.FYi, After some trouble shooting, speakers work great with Play-fi PC App available for download:1 On Win 11, this app must run in windows compatibility mode.2 Once active, speaker control is made easy3 PC becomes an excellent streaming source/server4 Stream music using Win Media Player or any other active music source5 Once Amazon Music or other source is active/loaded, sound is automatically streamed to selected speakers with excellent quality.6 For ultimate ease and satisfaction, Play-fi PC App is a must and worth the 20 dollar premium. This is now my go to App for streaming audio to multiple play-fi speakers.7 Note, the support website wasn't much help. Hope the above tips help.

This speaker originally retailed for $229 when it came out in like 2016 so I thought I was getting a good deal.It runs on DTS Play-Fi which is a wifi protocol similar to Sonos... In theroy allowing multi room audio, zones etc.I got two of these and when I set them up I was happy to see there was a firmware update. So I downloaded that and it took quite a while for the speakers to reboot several times.Once that was done I started playing music. The Play-Fi site says that "transfer to speaker" for all apps was added in the latest release of Plag-Fi but it's ***device dependent" so these speakers do not support that. That's the whole point. To have the music steaming directly over the wifi to the speaker. But it does not work this way for these speakers. The little research I did indicates these speakers do not have the horsepower to handle as streaming directly - they need your phone always open with the Play-Fi app streaming to them. So in this case, you might as well just use Bluetooth. There's no point in having these speakers connected to your wifi.I believe these are failed old new stock speakers they are trying to offload on Amazon. The manuals mention windows 7. The design is also quite dated.It's actually a good sounding speaker for the price but I'm really disappointed it doesn't have full Play-Fi functionality. I can do what I want to do easier with a couple of Google Home speakers. Sigh

Update: There have been many firmware updates, all with laughably useless "Release Notes" - "Improves Airplay on supported devices". WHICH freaking devices are supported? Impossible to tellEverything reported below remains broken as of June 2023AirPlay is unusable - to advertise support for it is borderline fraudBluetooth suffers from the ridiculous volume bugI have the pathetic thing on a timer, rebooting every 24 hours so that at least Bluetooth sort of worksAvoid this PoSPreviously on Battlestar Broken Firmware:The value proposition is impressive - just under 30 bucks for a plug-in speaker which supports internet radio, AirPlay and Bluetooth, along with the proprietary Play-Fi streaming system.If only it actually worked - this is a product which has been value engineered into non-functionality.First off, fundamental limitations: all of the "Music Choices" here (Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, Deezer, Tidal, Internet Radio, etc) do _not_ function on the speaker itself, it relies on actually doing the playing with a mobile app and streaming to the device --- bogus.The "Transfer to Speaker" functionality supported by some Play-Fi devices - NOT SUPPORTED on this unit, "it doesn't have enough hardware resources" according to support. So you can't play anything without using a mobile device connected at all times - app not running, no sound. What is extra annoying here is that even though the custom app is doing the internet radio, not the device, one still can't enter custom internet radio stations -- which would be extra helpful since the custom app parses shoutcast streams incorrectly and will "find" streams which it can't play, because it screws up the stream extraction.Second, it takes forever to boot - not like a normal bluetooth speaker where you poke the power button, it bleep-bloops, and you are ready to go --- NO. You must wait for minutes while the damn thing boots, like some janky old computer. This will become important later.And now for the bugs.AirPlay only works for some random amount of time, before playback becomes interrupted with multi-second bursts of dead air. Bluetooth resets the volume to some random low volume whenever playback is stopped or paused, and mobile device volume doesn't work properly - you need to walk over to the damn thing and poke the volume buttons, or use the special app to adjust the volume .And then (even with most current firmware) Bluetooth will just decide not to work - it will stay connected but stop playing audio, then either refuse to connect or cycle through connect/disconnect loop.This thing's firmware is such crap, that it will get in "broken" modes (no audio, AirPlay fail to connect, no bluetooth) which can't be fixed with rebooting. Hit the power button, wait some time for shutdown, hit it again, wait minutes for it to boot. LOL! Joke's on you, still broken.Sometimes the power button will simply not work at all, because terrible firmware.One has to _unplug the damn thing_ then plug it back in, to restore functionality.How long has this product been on the market? FCC approval end of 2014, so almost _eight years_ and it still doesn't work. Retail price was approx $230 on launch, so perhaps they're just dumping remaining stock.On paper the hardware looks impressive for a wee speaker (there's a 4-voice FM synth on the amplifier chip!), but the firmware is simply not fit for purpose.If the firmware is ever properly fixed, this could be a fantastic product at this price point.