Ruark Audio MR1 Bluetooth speaker system review: Wired or wireless, these little speakers will rock your world<article>
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Ruark is the latest high-end speaker manufacturer to apply its advanced design prowess to the mass market. The company is targeting the high end of the market to be sure, but $500 is a reasonable price to pay for speakers of this quality. They managed to outshine the similarly priced
MM-1 speakers that Bowers & Wilkins introduced five years ago, even though they lack USB audio support, and they offer one feature those speakers don’t: Bluetooth.</p><p>
USB audio support gives you the opportunity to bypass your computer’s noisy circuitry and keep the audio signal in the digital domain, by sending it over a USB cable to a DAC inside the speaker. The Ruark has only a 3.5mm analog audio input and relies on your computer to perform the conversion. You can overcome that shortcoming by using an outboard DAC, or you can use Bluetooth to send audio from your source to the speaker. Both alternatives impinge on the MR1’s price/performance ratio—on the price side of that equation if you don’t already have an outboard DAC, and on the performance side if you resort to the convenience of Bluetooth.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2969839/home-audio/ruark-audio-mr1-bluetooth-speaker-system-review-wired-or-wireless-these-little-speakers-will-rock-y.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Ruark Audio MR1 Bluetooth speaker system review: Wired or wireless, these little speakers will rock your world
