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product_id: 187227132
title: "R1280DB Powered Bluetooth Bookshelf Speakers, Optical Input, Wireless Studio Monitors, 4 Inch Near Field Speaker, 42W RMS, White Silver"
brand: "edifier"
price: "€ 463.56"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 8
category: "Edifier"
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# Bluetooth wireless range 10m 42W RMS power punch Bass & treble adjustable knobs R1280DB Powered Bluetooth Bookshelf Speakers, Optical Input, Wireless Studio Monitors, 4 Inch Near Field Speaker, 42W RMS, White Silver

**Brand:** edifier
**Price:** € 463.56
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎧 Elevate your sound game — because your playlist deserves premium vibes.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** R1280DB Powered Bluetooth Bookshelf Speakers, Optical Input, Wireless Studio Monitors, 4 Inch Near Field Speaker, 42W RMS, White Silver by edifier
- **How much does it cost?** € 463.56 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ie](https://www.desertcart.ie/products/187227132-r1280db-powered-bluetooth-bookshelf-speakers-optical-input-wireless-studio-monitors)

## Best For

- edifier enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted edifier brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Sleek, Timeless Design:** White silver finish with removable grills blends perfectly into any modern workspace or living room.
- • **Versatile Input Options:** Optical, coaxial, and dual RCA inputs cover all your digital and analog sources.
- • **Tailor Your Audio Experience:** Manual bass and treble controls let you customize sound to your exact vibe.
- • **Seamless Wireless Connectivity:** Bluetooth 5.0 lets you stream effortlessly from any device within 10 meters.
- • **Studio-Quality Sound in Your Space:** 42W RMS delivers rich, room-filling audio without overpowering your neighbors.

## Overview

The Edifier R1280DB powered bookshelf speakers combine 42W RMS power with Bluetooth wireless streaming and versatile input options including optical and coaxial ports. Featuring 4-inch near-field drivers and manual bass/treble controls, these speakers deliver studio-quality sound tailored to your space. Their sleek white silver design and remote control make them a stylish, functional upgrade for any desktop or living room setup.

## Description

Edifier R1280DB haut-parleur Argent, Blanc Avec fil &sans fil 42 W

Review: Sound Packs A Punch!!!! More Than The Price Suggests!!! - I decided to go Back2Black after a 25+ years seperation, I picked up a Dual 506 (1981) Turntable in mint condition and needed some active speakers, reading a few reviews and watching a few YT videos I went for these speakers, hooking them up via a pre-amp, so for £120 what do you get, well firstly they are really well made and look great i have removed the grills, the sound? i was quite suprised at how good it was, tweaking the bass and trebble nobs to suit the music and they pack a little punch you could feel the air pumping out the air vent, at full volume they hold out very well indeed, not overpowering, perfect volume for a terraced house living room, and not to loud for the neighbours lol, I have started collecting vinyl again and wow it really is the best way for music to be played, pumping out U2 Joshua Tree Live @ Madison Square Garden, Depeche Mode Live @ The Rose Bowl, really did turn back the years for me to my Vinyl collecting teenager days, then with these speakers there is the added bonus of hooking up all your devices via the bluetooth, there is an optical port, 2 x line inputs, coaxil port, the remote works great, so if you are looking for real value for money, and better than price sound from a well made speaker then look no further than a pair of these they wont dissapoint
Review: Sound value - Mr Edifier's little bookshelf active speakers are just brilliant. Bought them for use in kitchen - a 7m long room - and they will fill the space if asked. Quality improves the closer you get as you would expect from a bookshelf device. The sound quality is surprisingly good. Particularly so for human singing voice which, for me, is a paramount indicator of what a speaker can do. They are nearly as good as my Quad AS9 set in lounge. Given that the Edifiers cost £120 ("cheap" white ones) and the Quads were £600, this is just unbelievable value. They will handle just about every kind of music, from simple voice, through rock bands to full orchestra. The bass can be a bit heavy at times but is easily adjusted on the bass/treble dials. My stuff goes through digital equalisers on my PC and phone and they handle that well too. Useful set of input ports for just about every combination of line and digital. Only thing missing here is a USB input port which I would use when needing quality a bit better than Bluetooth. That said, the Bluetooth itself delivers pretty good sound quality. I have a CD player connected through the optical port and it works marvellously. Okay, they lack a lot of the digital stuff you get from "dedicated" Bluetooth speakers like Sonos and the like. But I don't want to be able to talk to them, I don't want them to play in other rooms or choose what they think I should listen to. Wouldn't mind if they could make me a coffee but we don't seem to have come that far yet! So, if you want really good quality sound for a budget price, buy the Edifiers. Great quality for absurdly low price.

## Features

- R1280DB-WS

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B082DHWSRD |
| Best Sellers Rank | 29,951 in Electronics & Photo ( See Top 100 in Electronics & Photo ) 100 in Bookshelf Hi-Fi Speakers |
| Colour | White |
| Compatible devices | Desktop, Smartphone, Tablet |
| Control method | Remote |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
| Impedance | 4 Ohms |
| Included components | Power cables, RCA cables |
| Is waterproof | false |
| Item model number | R1280DB-WS |
| Item weight | 4.9 Kilograms |
| Manufacturer | Edifier |
| Maximum range | 10 Metres |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Power source | Battery Powered |
| Product dimensions | 44D x 30W x 19H centimetres |
| Recommended uses for product | For computers |
| Speaker size | 10 Feet |
| Special feature | Bluetooth |
| Subwoofer diameter | 4 Inches |
| Surround-sound channel configuration | 2.0 |
| Unit count | 1.0 Count |
| Warranty type | full warranty |
| Wireless communication technology | Bluetooth |

## Product Details

- **Audio output mode:** Stereo
- **Brand:** Edifier
- **Connectivity technology:** Auxiliary, Bluetooth, RCA
- **Frequency response:** 20 KHz
- **Input voltage:** 220 Volts
- **Material:** Wood
- **Model name:** R1280DB-WS
- **Mounting type:** Tabletop Mount
- **Speaker maximum output power:** 42 Watts
- **Speaker type:** Shelf Speakers

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Do these come with an optical cable?**
A: The reply below is incorrect...if you were to look in the description at the pictures...5 & 6....on the backplate is an 'OPT' socket...and in 6, there is a toslink cable...hmmm

**Q: Can i connect a sub ?**
A: No

**Q: Can these speakers work without an Amp, and play through turntables! Thanks**
A: As long as your turntables have a built in Pre-amp, yes, these will work with them without any other equipment.

**Q: Are these speakers active? i have a rega planar 1 turntable. if i bought eg a project phono box preamp, would this set up work?**
A: Think they've got a built in preamp. Got mine plugged straight into my audio technica LP60x

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sound Packs A Punch!!!! More Than The Price Suggests!!!
*by C***E on 29 October 2018*

I decided to go Back2Black after a 25+ years seperation, I picked up a Dual 506 (1981) Turntable in mint condition and needed some active speakers, reading a few reviews and watching a few YT videos I went for these speakers, hooking them up via a pre-amp, so for £120 what do you get, well firstly they are really well made and look great i have removed the grills, the sound? i was quite suprised at how good it was, tweaking the bass and trebble nobs to suit the music and they pack a little punch you could feel the air pumping out the air vent, at full volume they hold out very well indeed, not overpowering, perfect volume for a terraced house living room, and not to loud for the neighbours lol, I have started collecting vinyl again and wow it really is the best way for music to be played, pumping out U2 Joshua Tree Live @ Madison Square Garden, Depeche Mode Live @ The Rose Bowl, really did turn back the years for me to my Vinyl collecting teenager days, then with these speakers there is the added bonus of hooking up all your devices via the bluetooth, there is an optical port, 2 x line inputs, coaxil port, the remote works great, so if you are looking for real value for money, and better than price sound from a well made speaker then look no further than a pair of these they wont dissapoint

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sound value
*by K***L on 26 November 2022*

Mr Edifier's little bookshelf active speakers are just brilliant. Bought them for use in kitchen - a 7m long room - and they will fill the space if asked. Quality improves the closer you get as you would expect from a bookshelf device. The sound quality is surprisingly good. Particularly so for human singing voice which, for me, is a paramount indicator of what a speaker can do. They are nearly as good as my Quad AS9 set in lounge. Given that the Edifiers cost £120 ("cheap" white ones) and the Quads were £600, this is just unbelievable value. They will handle just about every kind of music, from simple voice, through rock bands to full orchestra. The bass can be a bit heavy at times but is easily adjusted on the bass/treble dials. My stuff goes through digital equalisers on my PC and phone and they handle that well too. Useful set of input ports for just about every combination of line and digital. Only thing missing here is a USB input port which I would use when needing quality a bit better than Bluetooth. That said, the Bluetooth itself delivers pretty good sound quality. I have a CD player connected through the optical port and it works marvellously. Okay, they lack a lot of the digital stuff you get from "dedicated" Bluetooth speakers like Sonos and the like. But I don't want to be able to talk to them, I don't want them to play in other rooms or choose what they think I should listen to. Wouldn't mind if they could make me a coffee but we don't seem to have come that far yet! So, if you want really good quality sound for a budget price, buy the Edifiers. Great quality for absurdly low price.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Edifier speaker comparison: R1280DB v R1850DB v S1000DB
*by D***S on 10 March 2019*

First of all, I have no professional connection to either Edifier or Amazon – I'm just a customer. This review necessarily involves a comparison of three of Edifier's models (R1280DB, R1850DB and the S1000DB) so I have placed the review in each model's Amazon page. I hope you like reading – this review is a bit long, but I'm so impressed by the Edifier brand (and Amazon!) that I wanted to do it justice. I hope you will find it useful. I'm not an industry professional, just someone who is passionate about hi-fi. I'm also a physicist and so I'm fairly technical but I certainly don't claim to be any kind of expert so what you are getting here is simply a layman's opinion - although I'm fussy in the extreme about my music and home cinema! Part 1: The bedroom - Once upon a time… I got fed up being awoken by what sounded like a nuclear attack alarm from my phone every morning – I was certainly awake but I wanted to be gently brought into consciousness – not start the day with my heart pounding, thinking that I might cardiac arrest at any second! So, I bought a top of the range radio alarm at £170. It had three speakers, one of which claimed to be a "subwoofer". I wasn't overly impressed. I like my hi-fi and music, and mistakenly thought this might come close to a hi-fi sound – it did not. I had an Ocean Digital internet radio (no built-in speaker) lying around and discovered that it had dual alarms built in. I had the idea of being awoken by true hi fi sound in the morning – a bit indulgent, I know, but life is short so why not? I didn't really want an amplifier, cables and large speakers cluttering up the bedroom, so I thought of active speakers. I had never really considered them before as I thought they produced lower quality sound than passive speakers driven by a separate amplifier. I spent the best part of a day looking at reviews (from articles all over the world) and finally decided to give the Edifier R1280DB active speakers a try, even though I had never even heard of the company before. Given Amazon's outstanding customer service, I knew that I could return them with no fuss if they weren't up to standard. I bought the wooden finish type and was immediately impressed. They looked good in the bedroom and the sound was excellent, especially considering the price and the size of the speaker (small). My view is that this setup would be very difficult to beat by any of the (even high-end) one piece music systems available. OK, it's a bit indulgent for what is essentially an alarm clock (£120 for the speakers and around £40 for an internet radio) but the sound was superb. It kicked the radio alarm which I had purchased initially completely out of the park!!! Part 2: The kitchen Having been so impressed by the R1280DB, I talked myself into getting some speakers to sit beside the TV / satellite in the kitchen. I thought I'd go a bit further up the Edifier range and settled on the R1850DB at £160. This is where things got a bit more serious – this speaker delivers a true hi-fi quality sound, in my opinion. Obviously, we need to remember two things, namely the price and the size, so it's not going to match a £1,000 set of speakers and separate amplifier – but it's not far off that kind of quality, at least at moderate volumes. My main system is around that price, so I'm judging it against that. I think Edifier may be victims of their own excellent products here; at a price increase of only £40 (£160 versus £120), in my view there is a substantial jump in sound quality over the R1280DB, so much so that if you can stretch to it, the R1850DB is definitely the one to go for. Considering that you will hopefully be listening to these speakers for years to come, that additional £40 becomes even less significant. Part 3: Back to the bedroom… Having been totally blown away by the sound quality of the R1850DB speakers, how easy they were to set up and how tidy and unobtrusive they were, I returned the R1280DB speakers and moved the R1850DBs into the bedroom – I now actually look forward to the "alarm clock" going off in the morning – that's a first! Incidentally, if you are using these as an alarm clock, they need to be left on. I measured their power consumption when there is no input and it is just under 6 watts. By my calculation that is approximately one kWh per week (6 watts x 168 hours) so, if you leave them on 24/7, that should equate to less than 20p per week in additional electricity. Or you could, of course, just turn them on at night and off again in the morning. I have also linked them to a blu-ray player and the TV in the bedroom – they have transformed everything sound-wise! The additional digital connectors are a huge advantage here – see the note further on. Part 4: Back to the kitchen… For those of you who haven't gotten tired of me babbling on, you may have worked out that the kitchen is now missing a set of speakers… I was so impressed by Edifier's R1850DB that I started to look even further up the range. After ANOTHER day looking at reviews, the Edifier S1000DB model appeared to be receiving huge praise from every reviewer. However, at £280 (for Amazon Prime members, otherwise £300) these are not exactly budget speakers, so it took a few days before I talked myself into taking the plunge. Bottom line, I am hugely impressed with the S1000DB! Again, it is a step up from the R1850DB. However, it doesn't make the R1850DB sound bad in any way by comparison – I can wholeheartedly recommend both of these models. The S1000DB is a gorgeous speaker in terms of its looks, real wood (I believe) finish, and top-notch sound quality. Crystal clear treble, massive and controlled bass, this active speaker is on a par with a much more expensive setup of separate amp and speakers – and much tidier and unobtrusive for smaller spaces. I have it plugged into the TV and a satellite receiver in the kitchen where I can also listen to satellite radio, which is amazing quality sound. My opinion is that the R1850DB is the optimum price / performance compromise here, but you would not go wrong with whichever of this trio you went for. A brief summary of 'for' and 'against' each model would be: Model FOR AGAINST R1280DB Compact, looks, price Sound is good, but not hi-fi. R1850DB Optimum price / performance Maybe a bit plain looking S1000DB Top quality sound, bass, looks Nothing if you have £280 Additionally, with the exception of the S1000DB, the remotes are a bit on the cheap side. Edifier would do well to address this point as it would enhance the perceived quality of the system – after all, it is the only bit of the system that we regularly touch, and that tactile interface is important – to me, at least. I don't know if a universal remote could work here – comments are welcome. A few final thoughts: 1. Edifier make models with and without digital inputs. The …DB at the end of the model name stands for Digital plus Bluetooth. My recommendation is definitely to go for these additional digital inputs. They add slightly to the cost, but they massively increase the flexibility of the speakers. I have used all of the digital and analogue inputs and they all work flawlessly. 2. I briefly considered the S2000DB, which again won massive praise from all reviewers. Unfortunately, the price difference in the UK between those and the S1000DB was just too much for me. I would dearly love to hear the S2000DB and I will be watching the price carefully, just in case I need speakers for the bathroom…! Watch this space!!! 3. A final mention to Amazon. There were a few very minor snags during this buying spree but Amazon customer service, as always, fixed the problems instantly and without question. Thank you, Amazon! Being able to purchase equipment, which isn't exactly cheap, with total confidence in the seller is a huge plus point for the consumer. Thanks for "listening"… and good luck if you decide to purchase. I am certain you would not be disappointed with any of these models.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Edifier R1280DB Active Bookshelf Speakers 2.0, Bluetooth v5.1, Optical/Coaxial/RCA Input, 42W RMS, 55Hz–20kHz, 4" Drivers, 0.5" Tweeters, Bass Reflect Port, with Remote, Wood Enclosure, White
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