B&W Zeppelin Air Review

£500Sep 2011

Stuff says 5 Hot Buy

A thumping party-starter with a new wireless dimension for Apple devotees.

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Stuff magazine Fri, Sep 23 2011, 3:59PM

AirPlay and iTunes

The weighty, well-built Zeppelin has had a slight rejig, but it remains unmistakable. The original premium iPod dock is now one of the first AirPlay docks; you can stream music to it from an iThing, Mac or PC via iTunes, using your Wi-Fi network. Its USB input lets you sync your iOS device to iTunes from the dock, a video output will pipe its videos to a screen and a 3.5mm input hooks up other music players. The speaker is supplied with a fairly basic remote, but you can also your iDevice’s more detailed interface for full control of your music.

Review continues after the break...

Sound quality

Switching between a docked iPhone and an AirPlay device isn’t as slick as we’d like, but it works. There is a slight drop in audio quality with AirPlay compared to a docked portable, but either way you can expect a big, powerful sound with lashings of bass and voices that are natural and detailed. It goes loud without any hint of trouble.

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  13. GSARider

    1 year ago

    Sound quality is indistinguishable over airplay...however there is currently a bug in iOS5 which is causing music streamed to drop the signal and the Zeppelin has to be restarted after a few mins of playing.

    It's affecting all airplay units at the moment. However having had a play around with my Zeppelin Air, you can use the Apple Remote app to control iTunes on your main computer and stream directly - this is working fine.

    Overall a great unit despite Apple's messing it up - if you're on iOS4 it's fine.

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