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hi i'm ty pendlebury from cnet com and today I'm looking at the ax period eres wireless speaker years ago you needed to spend tens of thousands of dollars to get a multi-room system but now thanks to standards such as bluetooth and apple airplay streaming music between rooms is easy and cheap appearance new era speaker is designed along airplay lines but works with DLNA to stream music from your Windows device or smartphone the eris is fairly striking from a design standpoint with this red metal stand and two matching pairs of woofers one of which is a set of passive bass radiators the speaker uses a 100 watt amplifier and while it's designed to be used wirelessly via Wi-Fi there is also an ethnic connector and a 3.5 millimeter auxiliary input to play you can either use the play to feature in windows media player that's windows 7 or 8 or use a DLNA app of your choice or aperion zone eres app for smartphone when it works as it should the eris has a very intimate sound which is suited to folk music or instrumentals and is much more detailed than the similarly priced bowers & wilkins zeppelin air the only problem is that it sometimes doesn't work windows media players streaming capability is very flaky and the eris app is finicky and so i ended up using the audio input back most of the time anyway while an apple airplay module is rumored at the moment the wireless capability is a little unreliable and a pair of audio engine 5 plusses for example is not only cheaper but will give you better sound this has been ty pendlebury for senate local