Panasonic ALL3 Wireless Speaker System - Black

This speaker is so easy to set up, as long as you have a modern smart phone. The sound is great, this is especially true at high volumes. I have tried many types of music from modern pop, rock to jazz and classical. Spotify premium is the perfect partner to these and in my opinion they look better than the LG, Samsung and even the Sonos options. I now have two ALL8's and two ALL3's setup around the house and recently bought a new VDSL modem/router to replace my talktalk/bt setup and it was just as easy to reconfigure all the speakers to work on my new 5GHz wireless network.

As a speaker I would like to have given it 5star, I like to look of them sounds is great for me, I have two and wall mount them. You still have to run power to them so not completely wire free. Have had them for 2 years now and they still work fine. However.. I just cant get on with the Allplay app, use mainly spotify and allplay radio, Sometime they unpair for some reason and sometimes thought the spotify app songs wont play and i have to restart phone seams only way to solve problem.But as these speakers as so good and have a aux in i have decided to use them with chromcast audio and a home mini... so not all lost. Well done for including a aux in and wall mount fixings not well done for buggy software.

Like so many others I bought a few of these speakers to connect together, two ALL-3s and an ALL-8 to be exact.The sounds quality was pretty good and setup was straightforward.The issue was that just outside the one year warranty period, one by one, they stopped working. They powered up okay and could be seen on the network but wouldn't output any sound either through the app or via the aux input. So they sat and collected dust for a year. Just when I was about to throw them out I googled the problem again and eventually stumbled upon a post that said that Panasonic was aware of the issue with these speakers and had extended the warranty for them to three years. So I contacted them and they confirmed this. The next day I sent them off for repair and got them back a week later fully working. The problem with these is a failing motherboard.So if you're despairing as I was then don't. As long as you have your proof of purchase and you're inside the three year window then these can be repaired free of charge under warranty. Just contact Panasonic directly.

We originally purchased a couple of these, with a view to being able to listen to Radio 4 first thing in the morning without that annoying echo you get when two radios are out of sync in two rooms. We have now expanded the system so that we have a speaker in virtually every room, however there were challenges.The speakers themselves are excellent quality and very good sound for such a small but heavy unit. The Panasonic and Qualcomm Allplay apps are getting better with each update, and personally I did not find the Panasonic app as challenging as other reviews suggest.The issues we had were:1. It isn't possible to schedule radio using the current apps, so a clock-radio experience was not possible with just two speakers. However, it is possible to use Allplay Radio to play Radio 4 (and many more stations as well) through the speakers in perfect sync.2. The speakers go to sleep to save energy, and when they do that, they drop off the apps. This is very frustrating as you have to switch the speaker off and on again before they are recognised. In theory, there is a network standby setting, but I cannot get that to work. This is where I feel that a dropped star is appropriate, as the apps should be able to recover better than that or it should be possible to disable the energy-saving setting.3. Despite having an FTTC internet connection, streaming radio often stops for a few seconds in the middle of programs. This may well be due to interference on wifi from surrounding networks.4. Out of the five speakers purchased (all as Warehouse Deals), one speaker would not play music at all. It would connect to the app and appear to be playing, but no sound came out. That is being returned for a refund.I resolved the above issues by:1. Purchasing this:  Panasonic SC-ALL2EB-K Wireless Multi Room Speaker System  . This is an excellent Clock Radio in its own right, and you can setup several alarms on it and use either a buzzer or one of the presets as the alarm. The alarms are setup through the Panasonic Music Streaming app. Because this is part of the Panasonic Allplay family you can setup a stream to play BBC Radio 4, and add that to a preset on the Clock Radio. You can then wake to that preset, and any speakers that are in the same group, will also play the same stream. The All 2 also has the ability to restream Bluetooth connections, but I haven't needed that.2. We used these to connect the speakers to the router:  TP-LINK AV500 Powerline Adapter with AC Pass Through - Starter Kit . This makes the connection rock solid at the cost of having to have two cables to each speaker - one power and one network. It solves both the sleep issue and the interrupted streaming issue. It does help if you use fixed ip addresses and be aware that if you disconnect the network cable (or restart the powerline unit or anything that interrupts the network connection), you will have to restart the speaker by disconnecting/reconnecting the mains plug and switching the speaker on.A major benefit of installing the Allplay speakers is that we now have the ability to play our local collection of music through the entire house. This is because all our music is stored on a Zyxel NSA 325 NAS  ZyXEL NSA325 v2 2 Bay Desktop Network Storage Power Plus NAS Enclosure,1.6GHz CPU . This NAS comes with a DLNA server as standard called Twonky, and the Allplay system works very well with Twonky.Having used the Allplay apps for a few days, I would offer this advice to Panasonic and Qualcomm on how to improve the experience:1. Don't have the app search for the speakers unless the user requests a refresh of the speaker list. Store the list of speakers in the app and only change the list on request. Because the apps are constantly searching for the speakers, the list is often incomplete and takes time before all the speakers appear again. I realize that may cause difficulty with a change made on one device not being refreshed to other devices, so that would have to be managed. Otherwise the method by which the apps find the speakers needs to be updated in the speaker firmware so it is more efficient. At the moment, I can open the app on my iphone and only find three devices out of five, I can then go to my ipad and find all five devices. If I then reset the app on my iphone, it finds all five devices. This is despite the fact that all devices are currently playing a stream.

I have to put a very low score on this item. The concept is very good (hence 2 stars) - to control speakers remotely (with an app) independently and in groups and to stream music on the network, internet radio or a music service (Spotify). But, and it's a big but, the speakers seem flawed. I bought three ALL3 speakers, two from Amazon and one from John Lewis. Two of them are now useless. One I took back to John Lewis and changed it for a different type of speaker and now a second one has broken. The fault is that they suddenly start to play a very loud rumbling noise when connected to a music source, either through the app or by an auxiliary lead. This rumbling noise, very low pitched, is far louder than the music being played (which can be heard in the background) - hence the speaker is unusable. This happened in the same way, but at different times, to the two speakers (2 out of the 3). I also had an ALL8 suffer the same fate - meaning 50% or 3 out of 6 of my ALL3/8 speakers went the same way. Prior to this happening they seemed to be quite good speakers. Therefore I advise potential purchasers not to buy these speakers.

Excellent sound quality for it's size.The app is not the best but it hasn't impacted on my enjoyment of it. You only use the app to set up the speaker on your wifi network and browse to your music on your device / nas / pc as appropriate.There is built in linkage to Spotify premium, napster and two other services. It's a shame you can't stream from Apple music, amazon music or Google play but it isn't the end of the world if you have an mp3 collection