At CES 2025, Anker has a pair of recent audio system beneath its Soundcore brand. The primary, the Soundcore Rave 3S, is a $349 occasion speaker with AI-powered karaoke tips and built-in gentle exhibits. Becoming a member of it’s the SoundCore Increase 2 Professional, a extra highly effective follow-up to its non-Professional namesake, which provides boomier bass and higher safety from water and dirt.
The appropriately named Rave 3S is described as an “AI occasion speaker” with 200W output and 108dB quantity. Anker says it might probably fill areas of as much as 1,076 sq. toes. Like another Soundcore fashions, its RGB LEDs can create a light-weight present that syncs with the beat of your music.
The Rave 3S features a pair of wi-fi microphones for karaoke nights. That’s the place the AI is available in: The speaker has a vocal removing function that may “flip any track right into a karaoke monitor with only one click on.” If it really works as marketed (we haven’t examined it but), it may prevent the difficulty of scouring YouTube or paying for a service like KaraFun to get de-voiced variations of your go-to jams.
It additionally features a vocal enhancement function, which provides readability to your voice, and a reverb impact so you’ll be able to sound like Phil Collins in your air-drum-inducing cowl of “Within the Air Tonight.”
The Rave 3S has an estimated 12 hours of playtime, a bass-boost function, IPX4 water resistance and a Spatial Audio mode. The occasion in a field shall be obtainable on March 10 for $349.
Additionally coming quickly is the Soundcore Increase 2 Professional — the follow-up to final yr’s Increase 2 and Increase 2 Plus. The brand new mannequin has 4 drivers and a 140W output, making it higher than its predecessor for out of doors areas. Its bass can attain as little as 40Hz. The speaker has IP68 mud and water resistance (the Increase 2 and Plus variant had been solely rated IPX7), and Anker says it might probably float on water for pool events.
Just like the occasion speaker, the Increase 2 Professional can produce an RGB gentle present, and it ships with a transportable strap for slinging it over your shoulder. Anker says it has a 20-hour playtime. The Increase 2 Professional will launch in April (no actual date but) for $249.
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