Marshall Stanmore II with Amazon Alexa - Voice Activated Bluetooth Speaker - Black

This speaker is brilliant!! The sound quality is crisp even at high volumes without any clipping or distortion. The sub booms and having the easy adjusting knobs for volume, treble and bass allows you to tailor the sound profile for what you’re listening to. The built in Alexa works brilliantly although can be a bit of a pain to set up and get working properly. This speaker isn’t the loudest speaker at the price range (not to say it isn’t loud enough) but it makes up for any lack of noise by being a great looking, quality sounding speaker.

Fantastic build those that grew up with jcm800/900s will feel at home. Really nice build and beautiful to look at. Sound generally very good nice bass response and pretty loud for size. Arguably built for rock and metal but my kids would probably disagree. Only odd thing is radio stations via alexa sound odd. Maybe just the station but it seemed to be picking up all the microphone sounds that were annoying. But not enough to mark it down. Beautiful device thats hard to fault. Expensive but worth it.

Great sound, but I wouldn't bother paying the extra £50 for built in Alexa. She (?) obstinately refuses to play Jazz FM for example, claiming she can't find a station of that name. Then, suddenly she finds it. Aha, you think, we're OK now. Next time -"I can't find a station called Jazz FM". Ask for some jazz or classical or whatever music and all you get is the Amazon Music stations - OK as they go, but time after time gets very dull. Great sound from the speaker though and looks very cool.

Received promptly, plugged it in and worked immediately with Bluetooth. Can play my library and radio stations. Need to try WiFi and Alexa next step. Love the retro shape. In my opinion the best upgrade to my ex Sonos.

Looks good, sound quality is good, but operation with Alexa is flawed. If you ask the built-in Alexa to play music from Spotify, it mutes the first few seconds of every track. This happens on two recent examples of the speaker. The remedies suggested do not help. For a unit which costs this much, missing the first few seconds of every track ruins the enjoyment of the product and is totally unacceptable.

DNA is a unique thing: Cher, Johnny Cash, Madonna, Ray Charles, David Bowie, Joe Cocker, Freddie Mercury, Bjork, Michael Jackson ... when you hear any of them sing you know who it is that's singing, and that is exactly the same for the Marshall Stanmore II Voice: The sound from the Stanmore II is full with clarity, punch, and fizz. The rich, enveloping notes that emanate from Marshall amps (I own a Marshall Valvestate 2000 AVT) and speakers is part of their DNA, and that is what you get when you buy Marshall: Uniqueness - it is there, you just have to listen.Oh yeah, it also comes with an app that replicates the functions of those controls built-in to the Stamore II plus a host of other functions, such as EQ settings for those that like to fine-tune their sound. Follow the instructions for connecting to WiFi and youll have the Stanmore II Voice up and running in no time.

This is a lovely looking and sounding speaker.HOWEVER.3 days of ownership and I am yet to connect to wifi / Alexa.The Marshall customer support is TERRIBLE. And based in Sweden with no contact number.After emailing 2 days ago I am yet to receive any reply or technical support to solve the issue.My advice would be to avoid purchase from this company as they clearly don’t care about their customers.Shame as it’s a beautiful bit of kit.

Good speaker, but glitchy, disappointing Alexa software. Ended up plugging in an Echo dot instead.