De Ikea Eneby speakers hebben een ingetogen uiterlijk dat veel mensen aan zal spreken. De kleine speaker klinkt matig en is daarom geen aanrader. Binnenkort worden de testresultaten in onze productvergelijker gepubliceerd en vind je op deze pagina een directe link naar ons testoordeel. Met losse accu (prijs €20, niet meegeleverd) ook onderweg te gebruiken
Vervolgens kun je muziek afspelen vanuit Spotify of een andere app. Sommige muziek- en radiofragmenten hebben een erg doffe klank.
Bij een klassiek muziekstuk klinken de instrumenten redelijk, maar het geluid sprankelt niet echt. Net als bij de kleine speaker is het geluid wat gericht, waardoor je hoge tonen mist als je niet recht voor de speaker staat.
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De producten van Ikea staan bekend om hun minimalistische ontwerp en relatief lage prijzen. Beide speakers werken alleen met de stekker in het stopcontact, al kun je voor het kleinere model een accu kopen (20 euro) zodat je hem een paar uur draadloos kunt gebruiken.
Handig is dat beide speakers aan de achterkant een handvat hebben om ze eenvoudig te verplaatsen. Het belangrijkste onderdeel van een speaker is natuurlijk zijn geluidskwaliteit, maar daar weten de Eneby-modellen niet mee te overtuigen. De kleinere uitvoering kan flink hard, maar het geluid heeft weinig detail en klinkt veel van hetzelfde.
Ikea Eneby Review
Our favourite supplier of meatballs and flat-pack furniture has on the odd occasion taken curious steps into tech. There’s been no attempt to create the rounded, cylinder-like shapes that have become prevalent in the Bluetooth speaker market. My DT teacher from the early 2000s hated boxy design, but I’m of the opinion that it’s about the right time and place. The fabric grille helps to blur the lines between machine and furniture, but it is removable if you prefer a more industrial vibe.
Each has a 1-inch soft dome tweeter for high frequencies, plus a reflex port at the rear for more efficient bass. Control is via a single multi-function knob, which handles power, pairing, volume and EQ adjustment.
It takes a little fiddling to figure out exactly how to do those different things, but the instruction booklet is clear and there’s a little LED to help identify what you’re doing. For example, holding down the knob for three seconds lets you go into bass level control, as indicated by a slowly blinking LED.
Don’t worry about leaving the speaker on and draining the power – an auto-standby feature kicks in after 20 minutes. The Eneby 30’s reflex port doubles up as a handle, although the unit itself is big enough that you’re unlikely to move it much anyway.
The Eneby 20 comes with an optional handle, plus a tiny hex key for attaching it, which makes setting it up a more typical Ikea experience. Even with the handle, the Eneby 20’s size and shape suggests you’ll probably be moving this to and from the garden, as opposed to taking it out and about to the park.
These are mono speakers, which means there’s no stereo effect; you don’t get separate left and right channels of audio. That’s partly because speakers at this price tend to be smaller, more pocketable – Ikea has opted for larger cabinets, which really help in the low-end department. The overall sound signature is a little bass-forward, and the mid-range feels slightly recessed, but it isn’t a huge problem since vocals still have enough of a presence.
If you’re going to be putting the speakers in a shelving unit or up close to a wall, I’d recommend tweaking the EQ to avoid overwhelming the rest of the frequency range.
A company with no prior experience in the audio market has come up with a surprisingly compelling product that can easily take the fight to similarly priced rivals.
Ikea Eneby (8-Inch) Review
In true Ikea style, some assembly is required with the small speaker, which measures 8.0 by 8.0 by 3.0 inches (HWD) and weighs about 3.3 pounds (minus the battery pack). With the battery pack installed, the Eneby becomes portable and gets up to 10 hours per full charge, though your results will vary with your volume levels.
On tracks with intense sub-bass content, like The Knife’s “Silent Shout,” the small Eneby produces a hefty amount of bass response for its size and price. Bill Callahan’s “Drover,” a track with far less deep bass in the mix, gives us a better sense of the Eneby’s sound signature.
The acoustic guitar strumming gets a bright attack through the drivers, and the higher register percussive hits are delivered with an ideal high frequency presence. On Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild,” the kick drum loop gets a solid high-mid presence, allowing its attack to retain its sharp edge and slice through the mix. The vocals on this track are delivered with ideal high-mid and high frequency clarity, without a hint of added sibilance. On orchestral tracks, like the opening scene from John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary, the lower register instrumentation receives a slightly boosted presence. If you don’t care about fielding calls through your speaker or having to buy a separate battery, the 8-inch Eneby is a solid portable option. The Bottom Line Ikea’s 8-inch Eneby Bluetooth speaker sounds great for the price, but it isn’t portable unless you buy an optional battery pack.
Ikea Eneby (12-Inch) Review
You probably wouldn’t be surprised if we told you that Ikea designed a stylish, affordable Bluetooth speaker—pretty much everything the company makes is relatively inexpensive and visually pleasing. When we think of sub-$100 Bluetooth speakers, most of them are small, portable, and don’t get terribly loud or offer real bass depth. So the price and size of the 12-inch Eneby made us skeptical, but this was erased within ten seconds of playing the first track through its very capable drivers. An included (but optional) handle on top makes for easy carrying or hanging, and also acts as the bass port for air moved by the drivers to escape through. At top volumes on both the speaker and our sound source (in this case, an iPhone 6s), the Eneby got quite loud, and never succumbed to distortion, even on tracks with intense sub-bass content, like The Knife’s “Silent Shout.” Bill Callahan’s “Drover,” a track with far less deep bass in the mix, gives us a better sense of the Eneby’s overall sound signature. The drums on this track sound full and round, with some added bass depth, but nothing so over the top that it upsets the balance of the mix. We’ve tested plenty of speakers in this price range that can’t really muster the bass response required to give these drums a naturally round, rich depth, but the Eneby does it quite well. Callahan’s baritone vocals also receive the ideal mix of rich low-mid presence and crisp high-mids edge. The acoustic guitar strums are crisp enough, too, and the higher register percussive hits have a nice high frequency presence to them.
Overall, the is a bass-forward sound signature that will probably turn off purists seeking a flat response, but the lows aren’t obscenely boosted. On Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild,” the kick drum loop receives an ideal high-mid presence, allowing its attack to remain punchy and push through the layers of the mix.
We did see the drivers push so hard on “No Church in the Wild” that the grille was visibly vibrating, but the dynamics didn’t sound flattened like they often do on speakers that employ DSP to avoid distortion. If the look of the Ikea Eneby appeals to you, you’ll also probably be interested in the Urbanears Baggen and the Tivoli Audio ART Speaker, both of which cost more than twice as much. The Eneby obviously isn’t as powerful as the $449 Baggen, but it offers a pretty good fight for its far lower price, and it actually surpasses the sound quality of the $249 Tivoli ART.
ENEBY Draagbare Bluetooth®-speaker, zwart 15×7.5 cm
De automatische uitschakelfunctie helpt energie te besparen wanneer het product niet in gebruik is. Je kan de speaker door middel van een 3,5 mm Aux-kabel verbinden met apparaten die geen Bluetooth® hebben. Nieuwe, volledig opgeladen LADDA AAA 750 mAh oplaadbare batterijen bieden tot 15 uur audioweergave op 50% volume. Met nieuwe, volledig opgeladen oplaadbare LADDA AAA 900 mAh-batterijen kan je 15 uur geluid afspelen op 50% volume.
Ikea’s Eneby Bluetooth speaker never listens, and I love that
A few months ago, as my winter-pandemic cabin fever hit staggering new heights, I became somewhat paranoid about my Amazon Echo speaker. So I began searching for an anti-Alexa — a speaker that, in my imagining of it, would be so perfect in its simplicity that I wouldn’t miss my ex-assistant even a little.
I knew Ikea had ventured into the realm of Bluetooth speakers (Input editor Evan Rodgers’ review of the pocket-sized Frekvens stuck out in my mind) but still didn’t think to look for a speaker there until my partner, browsing the aisles of the store aimlessly as one does, saw the ombre pink-red-orange swappable Eneby front. The Eneby speaker was on sale, at the time, and it met the precise criteria I’d set in my mind for this search, so we gave it a shot.
Unlike its competition, the Eneby is not rechargeable out of the box, instead operating on AC power at all times. It’s more dynamic than the listening experience I had with the Echo and fuller, too, with rich bass and far-reaching treble.
I’m entirely comfortable with how large the Eneby is (compared to my Echo, at least) because it delivers the kind of sound you can only get by making your speaker that size. Since it’s 2021, it’s apparently a lot to ask for a not-smart speaker that isn’t made for audiophiles with huge wallets — the Eneby is pretty remarkable in that respect.
Ikea Eneby 30 Speaker Review : audiophile
Both speakers come in white and black with a dust cover which can be easily detached. Eneby 30 (my pick) has a reported range of 48 – 20 kHz and plays in a mixed mono configuration. I’m not even going to add a “for this price” clause because the sound is very consistent even at higher volume.
It tries to make up for this fact by effectively separating the highs, but I’d really like to try this speaker in a two-unit configuration. However, it does fit into the same market segment because it sits somewhere in between a classic portable (think Bose SoundLink / JBL Charge / …) and the new smart speakers like Alexa, HomePod, and others. We might have to wait for another year or two in order to get that Ikea-Sonos product on our tables but for now, if this speaker is an insight into what we might be getting, it sure looks like a step in the right direction.
Ikea ENEBY 20 and 30 Review
[Disclosure: We reached out to Ikea and Archetype and they were kind enough to loan us the ENEBY 20 and 30 unit. Model Name ENEBY 20 ENEBY30 Audio In 3.5mm jack Woofer 1 x 3.2″ 2 x 4″ Soft dome tweeter 1 x 1″ Dimensions (mm) 199x199x80 (without handle) 299x299x106 Weight 1.5kg (without battery) 3.8kg Bluetooth Version V 4.2 The ENEBY 20 comes with a handle (for portability), power cord and an instruction manual. I was prepared for generic sound quality but instead I was greeted with a speaker that was worth more than its salt.
ORAS by SARO is an upbeat tune that’s characterised by highs and lows throughout. The song was dominated by mids and lows and the ENEBY 20 handled it with grace.
Lianne La Havas’ voice did feel slightly muffled but other than that it was good. The first thing that will strike you is how it manages to fill the room with ease – granted the volume be turned up just a bit past the midway point.
The first thing you’ll notice with SARO – ORAS is the bass – it is smoother.
Next, the overall ‘sound field’ (unsure of correct term) is wider; you kind of feel that you’re listening in stereo. Here, Lianne La Havas’ vocals had more reverb and provided a closer representation of what a live concert would feel like compared to the ENEBY 20. Included in the box is a detachable handle – useful if you plan to take it out-and-about.
The handle felt sturdy when screwed in and i don’t foresee any problems carrying it around. With the ENEBY 20, the stand was a little flimsy – you could sway it left and right with much ease. For me personally, I didn’t really fancy how it looked with the stand, so I left it bare-bones. Common Questions – How to pair the ENEBY speakers to your mobile device?
Common Questions – Can I adjust the bass and treble of the ENEBY 20/30 ? The ENEBY 20 can easily fill a living room with no problem at all.
While the ENEBY 30 takes it up a notch with a stronger projection and a smoother bass. No fancy functions like voice assistants, creating your own sound profile or even pairing with the same speaker (ala Sonos).
The ENEBY 20 is a recommended option if you are searching for a bluetooth speaker on a budget,. If you are willing to spend abit more, the ENEBY 30 is also a good choice if you want a larger presence.
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