Both Audioengine Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-based solutions are capable of delivering very high quality audio! Bluetooth is an extremely convenient way to quickly pair to a speaker for easy wireless playback. Wi-Fi solutions are great for multi-room setups with custom groupings with different music or simultaneous playback to all which can be easily controlled with the A1-MR app.

The A1-MR doesn’t include a YouTube Music integration into the Audioengine Control App, but YouTube Music will work via Airplay on an Apple Device. So you’d be able to stream YouTube Music to the A1-MR from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer, no problem.

The A1-MR doesn’t include any MQA specific hardware, but you can still enjoy the benefits of MQA through software decoding with services like TIDAL, where you’ll have access to up to 16-bit 44.1kHz high resolution audio.

Does the A1-MR support gapless playback?

Gapless playback works great when streaming to the A1-MR as long as the music app you are using supports gapless playback as well, such as Spotify. You would not need to adjust anything with the A1-MR or within the Audioengine A1-MR app.

Windows 10 supports sharing the media on your computer via DLNA. To set this up, you’ll need to:

1. Click start and search for "media streaming options".
2. Turn on media streaming.
3. Name your media library whatever you’d like after turning it on.
4. From the Audioengine Control app on your Smartphone or tablet, go to My Music-> Home Music Share, and look for your media library name.

From here you can play audio stored on your computer to any A1-MR(s) on your network.  Just keep in mind that your computer will need to be powered on.

Qobuz works great with the A1-MR for lossless CD quality streaming! Once you get your A1-MR setup on your network using the Audioengine app, you will be able to send your Qobuz music to the A1-MR through the Qobuz app on your MacBook Pro, the Qobuz app on your devices, or directly through the Audioengine Control app! Qobuz and other lossless capable streaming services are played back at CD quality, with no compression.

If you have grouped the speakers for a multi-room setup in the Audioengine app, only the A1-MR that you grouped the speakers into will show as the available destination. If you wish to send to your other speakers independently, ungroup the A1-MRs in the app by pressing and holding on the speaker in the grouping and dragging down and away from the group.

Press and hold the status button on the front panel until the LED begins flashing (about 4 seconds), and you hear a voice prompt letting you know that the A1-MR has entered setup mode. If you don't hear the voice prompt, double check your audio systems volume, and that the A1-MR is connected to an active input.

Open the Audioengine Control app on your smartphone or tablet, and follow the instructions to complete setup. If you have other A1-MR units that are already configured, you will need to press the + in the top right corner of the screen to continue setup.

Yes. You must be connected to your network for your music to play.

Yes.

Try playing music directly on your phone, tablet or from your local library using the same network to check your internet connection.  

If your internet connection is OK:

• Check the connections between A1-MR and your stereo system.
• Use the Audioengine Control app to test signal strength.
• Restart your source music device and power cycle your A1-MR and stereo.

One of the great benefits to the A1-MR is that you’re no longer stuck using one product app. Any music player will work for iOS and MacOS via Airplay, as well as DLNA or UPnP streaming options for Android and Windows.

We considered Airplay 2, and will continue to keep an eye on it for future products or updates. At present though, the A1-MR includes support for only Airplay.

While Airplay 2 allows grouping of Airplay 2 devices in the Apple Home app, to allow streaming audio to multiple rooms at once, we've already built out advanced multi-room grouping features through the Audioengine Connect App. And in our implementation, these features extend not only to Airplay on iOS and MacOS, but can even be used for non-Apple devices which don't support Airplay or Airplay 2.

For Android Devices

For Apple Devices

Step 1: Download the free Audioengine app from the Apple App Store for iOS or from Google Play for Android. A1-MR setup as well as multiroom and stereo configurations are done via the Audioengine app from an iOS or Android device.

Step 2:  Connect the included speaker wire from the A1-MR left (powered) speaker to the right (passive) speaker, observing proper polarity to each speaker connector.

Step 3: Connect the Ac power cord to the A1-MR left speaker rear panel and plug the other end of the cable into a functioning power outlet.

Step 4:  Turn on power via the rear panel volume/power knob and set the volume to around 50% so you can hear the audio prompts during setup.

Step 5: The A1-MR Status button will blink rapidly for 15 seconds, then a piano tone will play.

Step 6:   The A1-MR Status button will now blink more slowly and a voice will say: "Entering setup mode. Follow the instructions in the app to finish the setup."If no piano tone or voice is heard after 15 seconds, increase A1-MR volume level.