Phorus PR5 Receiver with Play-Fi Multi-Room Dual Band Wireless Audio Streaming

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Phorus PR5 Receiver with Play-Fi Multi-Room Dual Band Wireless Audio Streaming

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The pr-5 can play inside on zone 1 and/or be piped out to the patio on zone 2 through a vintage stereo receiver. I set my system up so the volume sweet spot was around 80% on thepr-5, giving the amp a little head room. This special receiver makes it p... Read More

The ps5 receiver works through both bluetooth and wifi networks. The phorus app is way better than the onkyo or integra apps. No problems either using any of the compatible music streaming services like pandora. The app is great too and it has a surpr... Read More

Cons

When an album or folder finishes playing, the app immediately disconnects from the pr5. Selecting a second speaker disabled volume controls. Lots of rebooting all of the speakers and rebooting the application to try to fix things.

Using wifi / play-fi seems to sound much better, but the app situation is *horrible*. The phorus app itself (a slightly worse version then the dts playfi app) is extremely inconsistent. Unfortunately, wifi is not a great option as it can change and de... Read More

This is not a process that a novice computer user could undertake. If the goal was to design a product that would enrage the user then hats off to you phorus.

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Quality

Conclusionsi have been incredibly impressed with the quality of products from phorus and i hope that we can continue to bring y... Read More

The sound quality is about as good you can expect from streamed mp3s and it is so easy to use my wife uses it daily

The sound quality on the othercheaper one was horrible with a lot of interference

After reading reviews of several bluetooth speakers and how sound quality wasn’t the best i decided to invest in a phorus recei... Read More

Price

Phorus is a very good alternative for a fraction of the price

At a fraction of the cost od onos

Competitiveness

Have one of these hooked up to each set of house speakers with a 75w per channel amp

I am about to buy one more pr5 for my soundbar in the family room

Dont buy it just for bluetooth as its not any better than the competition here

I plan to replace with a new av reciever with playfi built in

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This product had a total of 145 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 10 2022.