The HD6 Wireless Speakers are Bluetooth speakers with sound that fills any room and connects to any device. No network setup, passwords to enter, or buttons to push.
HD6 Wireless Speakers are not just another great-sounding Audioengine speaker but a complete, full sized Bluetooth music system that works with all your apps, music, and devices. Blending the best of the past and present, HD6 combines stunning good looks with truly-useful features.
Tidal, Spotify, Pandora…all your favourite streaming apps play instantly.
No matter how you listen, HD6 Wireless Speakers have you covered.
The HD6 Wireless Speakers are versatile Bluetooth speakers packing a big sound that fills any room. Turntable? TV? No problem, we have you covered.
No network setup, passwords to enter, or buttons to push. Setting them up is so easy you’ll be rocking in no time.
Keep your music fun, easy, and sounding great.
Clear, full and powerful sound that fills any room.
The HD6 Wireless Speakers are constructed with custom Audioengine components: aramid fibre woofers, silk tweeters, high-fidelity Bluetooth aptX-HD, and built-in power amps wrapped in precision tuned, hand-crafted cabinets. These speakers are designed as a main TV room system but are versatile enough to fit into any space.
Audioengine wireless speakers are special. Their traditional analogue amplifiers sound incredible compared to lower-cost digital amps found in other mass-produced brands.
A whole new audio experience, guaranteed.
Audioengine designs and manufactures their own speaker drivers and other critical components. In other words, HD6 is not a box-built system with off-the-shelf parts, but includes custom-designed components constructed to their specifications. What they do not fabricate directly inside their factories are made to their specific designs. Parts such as circuit boards, transformers, magnets, and wiring harnesses, for example.
The speaker cabinets, drivers, innovative bass port designs, amplifiers, and passive crossovers are all critically tuned together for each Audioengine model. This, in turn, makes for a much more efficient system that requires less power than passive speakers and a separate integrated amplifier or similar A/V components. We build all this goodness into the left speaker cabinet to make it super-easy to connect your smartphone, tablet, computer, TV, network player or any other audio product.
Audioengine have taken features from two of their best-selling products, the B1 aptX HD Bluetooth Receiver and the D1 24-bit DAC, and combined some of this circuitry with advanced speaker components to achieve a complete high-end analogue and digital audio system.
The Bluetooth built into the HD6 powered speakers features aptX HD coding which is an advanced Bluetooth audio codec with very impressive sound. And even if your phone or tablet does not have aptX HD, the HD6 Bluetooth solution is backwards-compatible with SBC and AAC codecs, as well as standard aptX, so you can wirelessly stream music from any Bluetooth-enabled device and still enjoy all your music. High-fidelity Bluetooth aptX HD that really works and sounds great. Here is why:
Most Bluetooth implementations have very limited range, typically within just one room. But with careful signal management circuitry and antenna tuning, we offer a superior solution that has up to 3 times the range of standard Bluetooth for multi-room use, with no degradation in audio quality.
The HD6 include an AKM AK4396A DAC, widely known for its low-noise and high-fidelity. The optical input configures the AK4396A as a bit-perfect 24-bit DAC, which will process sample rates up to 192kHz natively. But for Bluetooth the AK4396A is used as an upsampling DAC and will pad all bit depths to 24-bits, achieving a higher signal-to-noise ratio and lower noise floor. Due to the high signal-to-noise specs of the AK4396A, the fact that digital signal is upsampled to 24-bits as well as the added benefit of onboard triple redundancy power source conversion and filtering, the HD6 Bluetooth implementation presents impressive low noise and low distortion characteristics with a noticeable improvement over other Bluetooth devices.
HD6 cabinets are available in several handsome finishes, including walnut and cherry veneers as well as satin black and high-gloss white paint, offering a myriad of options for complementing room furnishings. Also included are detachable grills that add further aesthetic advantages as they are firmly held in place with hidden neodymium magnets for a clean look.
The amplifiers in powered Audioengine speakers are located in the left speaker and are a conservatively-rated class A/B analogue monoblock design. This is a more traditional speaker/amplifier marriage which provides excellent quality audio and greater flexibility. All circuit boards for the power and preamp sections are vertically mounted for maximum mechanical shock protection.
Audioengine uses audiophile-quality, ferrofluid-cooled silk dome tweeters with neodymium magnets. Silk tweeters hold up well under high power and the edge-driven design gives very smooth response. The woofers are aramid fibre woven glass composite with rubber surrounds. Aramid fibre is obviously very strong, which means the woofer retains its shape when being driven at high levels. The HD6 woofers are housed in cast aluminium frames which provide high rigidity and increased heat dispersion.
Power transformers are critical to to high-quality audio performance, especially in the low-end and again, no off-the-shelf parts. Audioengine uses gapless core toroidal transformers which have a tighter radiated magnetic field, translating to lower noise. They are lighter than standard, lower-cost transformers and also generate less heat.
Each of the HD6’s speaker drivers are directly magnetically-shielded.
| General Specifications | |
| Type | 2.0 powered bookshelf-style speaker system featuring wireless and digital optical inputs |
| Power output | 150 W peak power total (50 W RMS, 75 W peak per channel) |
| Inputs | 3.5 mm mini-jack, RCA L/R, digital optical (SPDIF) Bluetooth aptX |
| Outputs | Variable line-out w/2.0 V RMS max output, 47 ohm output impedance |
| Input voltages | 115/240 V, 50/60 Hz manually-switchable |
| Amplifier type | Analogue dual-class A/B monolithic |
| Drivers | 5.5" aramid fiber woofers, 1" silk dome tweeters |
| SNR | >95 dB (typical A-weighted) |
| THD+N | <0.05% at all power settings |
| Crosstalk | -50 dB |
| Frequency response | 20 Hz - 22 kHz +/-1.5 dB |
| Analog input impedance | 48K ohms unbalanced (mini-jack and RCA inputs) |
| Protection | Output current limiting, thermal over-temperature, power on/off transient protection, replaceable external main fuse |
| Power consumption | Idle: 10 W / Mute: 6 W / Sleep: 4 W |
| Bluetooth Specifications | |
| Internal D/A converter | AKM AK4396 |
| Input bit depth | 24-bits upsampled |
| Bluetooth receiver type | Bluetooth 5.0 audio |
| Supported codecs | aptX HD, aptX low latency, aptX, AAC, SBC |
| Wireless operation range | Up to 100 ft (30 m) typical |
| Input data rate | Determined by Bluetooth |
| Wireless latency | ~30 milliseconds (ms) |
| Optical Specifications | |
| Internal D/A converter | AKM AK4396 |
| Input bit depth | Up to 24-bits native |
| Input data rate | Up to 192 kS/s native |
| Weight & Measurements | |
| Dimensions (each) - H x W x D | 30 cm x 18.5 cm x 25 cm / 11.75" x 7.25" x 10" |
| Weight (left speaker - active) | 8 kg / 17.5 lbs |
| Weight (right speaker) | 5.5 kg / 12.5 lbs |
| Shipping weight | 15 kg / 33.5 lbs |
| Shipping box dimensions - L x W x H | 51 cm x 38 cm x 43 cm/ 20" x 15" x 17" |
| Materials & Construction | |
| Cabinet | 18 mm thick MDF cabinets with real wood veneer |
| Tweeters | 1" (25 mm) silk dome tweeters with neodymium magnets |
| Woofers | 5.5" aramid fibre woofers with advanced voice coils |
| Finish options | Satin black, cherry and walnut |
| Environmental Requirements | |
| Operating temperature | 32 degrees F to 95 degrees F |
| Non-operating temperature | -4 degrees F to 113 degrees F |
| Relative humidity | 5% to 95% non-condensing |
Colour: Cherry.
These speakers arrived safely in Adelaide within a week of ordering. They look gorgeous and sound superb. Setting up Bluetooth was as easy as claimed and has worked flawlessly since.
The remote didn't work when first tried so I called Space Hi-Fi and after a quick test they decided it was faulty. A few days later a new one arrived. I couldn't ask for better service and I will look at them first for future purchases.
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