WIRELESS MULTIROOM SPEAKERS DEFINITIVE TECHNOLOGY W9/W7
Definitive Technology’s ‘W’ series is a set of products forming a complete wireless multiroom system aiming to challenge (and outperform) the market dominance of Sonos.
The family currently includes two sizes of wireless speakers — the long rectangular W9 (pictured above) and the smaller cubic W7 (above right). Also in the W collection are two electronics units, the ‘W Adapt’ as a source added streaming services into an existing hi-fi system, and the ‘W Amp’ as a just-add-speakers solution. And there is the W Studio (see panel), a soundbar solution which — like the HEOS Home Cinema in this issue but unlike the Sonos Playbar — has a subwoofer that is not optional; here it is integral to the presentation of the W Studio.
HOW IT WORKS
Each element of the Definitive Technology system connects through your home network either by a wired Ethernet connection or via Wi-Fi (the W Studio is Wi-Fi only). Set-up is nicely simple — when plugged in, the first ‘W’ unit creates its own Wi-Fi hotspot,
