Solis SO-7000 Wireless Speaker Review – Time for a Sing-Along!

When I look at the design of Solis’s SO-7000 wireless speaker, it comes across as strikingly traditional compared to lots of other wireless speakers out there. It’s a simple box with a simple design – no trapezoids, batteries, or weatherproofing complicating things. It’s also speaker-sized. So it should – with it’s big, classic design, offer big, classic sound, right? At $299, it’d sure better. Let’s dive into the 7000 and see whether it lives up to that promise.

Design Setup

A lot of speakers we look at these days are beefy weatherized things. They’re meant to be dropped into a backpack and set out by the pool. Definitely don’t set this one by the pool.

The look and feel of the SO-7000 is very traditional. It’s a beast of a black cube, measuring 7.9-inches in every direction. It features black fabric screens over the speakers and glossy black surfaces everywhere else. It looks more like a speaker than most speakers, with a spartan look that won’t be confused for anything but a speaker.

The button and input loadout is similarly straight forward. Along the top are volume, power, play/pause, and Bluetooth connection buttons, and the back features an aux-in jack if wireless connectivity just isn’t cutting it.

You can connect it via Bluetooth 2.0, Chromecast, or that auxiliary input on the back, and connecting in any case is as simple as you’d hope for with a wireless speaker.

The only wire the speaker requires is the power cable, as all pairing is done wirelessly (a change from Denon’s HEOS 1 speaker). There isn’t a battery to plug in or charge, either. This is a home-bound wireless speaker. The power cable, though, is a clunky one. Right in the middle of the cable is a bulky power brick with a bright green LED on the side. If you have a particularly persnickety cable config, the SO-7000 could prove tough to integrate. That’s a pretty minor gripe, and it does show that the company is trying to put audio quality over simplicity of design.

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