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product_id: 219864350
title: "Edifier R1280DBs Active Bluetooth Bookshelf Speakers - Optical Input - 2.0 Wireless Studio Monitor Speaker - 42W RMS with Subwoofer Line Out - Wood Grain"
brand: "edifier"
price: "C$47436"
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reviews_count: 6
category: "Edifier"
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# Bluetooth 5.0 wireless connectivity 42W RMS distortion-free power Optical & coaxial lossless inputs Edifier R1280DBs Active Bluetooth Bookshelf Speakers - Optical Input - 2.0 Wireless Studio Monitor Speaker - 42W RMS with Subwoofer Line Out - Wood Grain

**Brand:** edifier
**Price:** C$47436
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎶 Elevate your sound game — because your space deserves more than just noise.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Edifier R1280DBs Active Bluetooth Bookshelf Speakers - Optical Input - 2.0 Wireless Studio Monitor Speaker - 42W RMS with Subwoofer Line Out - Wood Grain by edifier
- **How much does it cost?** C$47436 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ni](https://www.desertcart.ni/products/219864350-edifier-r1280dbs-active-bluetooth-bookshelf-speakers-optical-input-2-0)

## 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

- • **Seamless Wireless Streaming:** Bluetooth 5.0 ensures stable, lag-free connection to all your smart devices for effortless music playback.
- • **Immersive Room-Filling Sound:** 42W continuous power with silk dome tweeter & 4-inch subwoofer delivers crisp highs and rich bass without distortion.
- • **Built to Last with Confidence:** Premium wood grain finish and a 2-year warranty from Edifier guarantee style and reliability in your workspace or home.
- • **Versatile Connectivity Options:** Optical, coaxial, and subwoofer outputs let you customize your audio setup with lossless quality.
- • **Effortless Control at Your Fingertips:** Included wireless remote and side panel controls give you instant access to volume, bass, treble, and input modes.

## Overview

The Edifier R1280DBs are premium active bookshelf speakers featuring 42W RMS distortion-free power, Bluetooth 5.0 wireless streaming, and versatile optical/coaxial inputs. Designed with a 13mm silk dome tweeter and 4-inch subwoofer, they deliver crisp highs and deep bass in a stylish wood grain finish. Complete with a wireless remote and backed by a 2-year warranty, these speakers offer professional-grade sound and connectivity for modern living and working environments.

## Description

Free delivery and returns on eligible orders. Buy Edifier R1280DBs Active Bluetooth Bookshelf Speakers - Optical Input - 2.0 Wireless Studio Monitor Speaker - 42W RMS with Subwoofer Line Out - Wood Grain at desertcart UK.

Review: Impressive sound, connectivity and build quality for a reasonable price - Really pleased with these - I have them set-up in our kitchen on top of the fridge connected via optical to an Apple Airport Express and wired to an desertcart Echo Dot. They have replaced an desertcart Echo Plus that I never got on with, the sound quality although loud, was really harsh. They were well packed and come with a decent length cable for between the two speakers, an RCA cable, an optical and a headphone socket to RCA cable. The small remote is also included, along with a battery. The speakers are a good weight, feel well made and I really like the wood finish. We leave them powered on all the time which means that they work well with Alexa and the sound quality from the Alexa dot is good. Streaming iTunes from the Airport with Apple’s higher quality stream the sound quality is really very good, excellent for the price in my opinion. Good stereo separation and sound field and really good dynamic width with decent low level bass without being boomy. I don’t have a subwoofer connected, but to be honest I don’t feel the need for one. Given that the speakers are sitting on top of a huge steel fridge freezer that may well be helping with the solid sound, either way sounds pretty good to me. In terms of volume, our kitchen is medium size, and they are more than loud enough and have not experienced any distortion at the levels we’re listening too. Some reviews have mentioned background hiss, but so far in my experience there is no detectable background hiss, noise or other interference. The remote is small and lightweight but does the job, it’s a bit confusing that the remote has buttons labelled ‘on’ & ‘off’ where these are in fact not power buttons, but instead are for turning on a truly terrible ‘sound field extension mode’; this just surrounds horrendous, is totally unnecessary and my advice is ignore it and never go there! Bluetooth seems to work well, only used it to test pair to my phone which was fine. I like the fact that the power supply is integrated (so no annoying brick), it would be nice if the power lead could be disconnected, but a minor gripe really. Overall, an excellent pair of ‘bookshelf’ speakers, really good sound for the size, well constructed and very flexible in terms of input source options. For what we’re using them for I don’t think I could have found anything better for even a substantially higher price, very pleased and would recommend them.
Review: Perfect upgrade from single box bluetooth speaker - I'm really pleased with these, they look and sound great. I bought them to upgrade a single box bluetooth speaker in our large kitchen/family room (400 sq ft). It had served us very well for many years but had become our main "stereo" and it had both poor bass and treble response. Having researched broadly, these seemed the perfect replacement: A stereo pair, adequate amplification, small enough to get my wife's approval, additional inputs if required in future (e.g. chromecast audio and sub). They have a very crisp and clear sound and bass is good for their size and price (they are not floorstanders). They are definitely loud enough - to get high volime on bluetooth you obviously need to set the speaker volume to max and then control final volume on your source device. Note that compared to the R1280DB model, these don't just add a subwoofer socket: They have a nicer remote, better technical spec and bluetooth 5.0.

## Features

- BLUETOOTH 5.0 - Pair the speaker with your smartphone, tablet, Mac, or laptop to play music wirelessly, no need to deal with messy wires.
- SUB OUT AND OPT/COAX INPUTS - Sub-out output works with external subwoofer. Optical and coaxial inputs to ensure a lossless connection to TVs and computers.
- DISTORTION-FREE SOUND - Fill your room with beautiful sound with its 42W continuous undistorted power, 13mm silk dome tweeter unit, and 4-inch sub-woofer unit.
- REMOTE CONTROL - Wireless remote for easy control of volume, mute/unmute, switch OPT/COAX mode, switch line-in, and Bluetooth mode. Bass, treble, and volume control buttons located on the side panel.
- 2 YEAR WARRANTY - R1280DBs is proudly designed and manufactured by Edifier. The entire system is back with a 2 year warranty.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B087C1HH7Z |
| Best Sellers Rank | 3,194 in Electronics & Photo ( See Top 100 in Electronics & Photo ) 9 in Bookshelf Hi-Fi Speakers |
| Colour | Wood Grain |
| Compatible devices | Laptop, Personal Computer, Smartphone, Tablet, Television |
| Control method | Remote |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
| Included components | Wireless Remote Control, RCA Cables |
| Is waterproof | False |
| Item model number | ed-r1280dbs-wood-uk |
| Manufacturer | Edifier |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Power source | AC |
| Product dimensions | 19.6D x 14.6W x 23.4H centimetres |
| Recommended uses for product | Music |
| Speaker size | 13 Millimetres |
| Subwoofer diameter | 13 Millimetres |
| Surround-sound channel configuration | 2.0 |
| Warranty type | Limited |
| Wireless communication technology | Bluetooth |

## Product Details

- **Audio output mode:** Stereo
- **Brand:** Edifier
- **Connectivity technology:** Bluetooth v5.1, Optical, Coaxial, RCA
- **Frequency response:** 20 KHz
- **Material:** Wood
- **Model name:** R1280DBs
- **Mounting type:** Shelf Mount
- **Speaker maximum output power:** 42 Watts
- **Speaker type:** Bookshelf
- **Special feature:** Hi Res Audio

## Images

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## Available Options

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

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Are these compatible with Dolby digital 5.1?**
A: There’s an optical input so the speakers can receive a 5.1 signal but this is a stereo system with only 2 speakers so only 2 channels of any 5.1 signal would be audible. There is a “sub-out” port where you can connect a sub-bass speaker, so if you did this you’d hear a total of 3 channels of the 5.1 signal. If your source signal is 5.1 then you ideally need a 5.1 speaker system, not stereo + sub (2.1).

**Q: How do you connect a 3rd speaker?**
A: If by 3rd Speaker, you mean a Subwoofer, then yes there is SUB OUT connection on the rear of the RHS speaker. If you search, Edifier do have just the thing.

**Q: Can you listen to two devices at the same time ie. Xbox through optical and pc through aux**
A: You can only have one input play at one time but you can have multiple things connected at the same time just change input so you can have one device connected on optical then another on aux but can only play one at a time

**Q: Can I use these without Bluetooth**
A: Hi yes you can just plug in using the 2 x RCA to 2 x RCA lead or 2 x RCA lead to 3.5mm jack lead which comes with them.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Impressive sound, connectivity and build quality for a reasonable price
*by W***O on 13 February 2021*

Really pleased with these - I have them set-up in our kitchen on top of the fridge connected via optical to an Apple Airport Express and wired to an Amazon Echo Dot. They have replaced an Amazon Echo Plus that I never got on with, the sound quality although loud, was really harsh. They were well packed and come with a decent length cable for between the two speakers, an RCA cable, an optical and a headphone socket to RCA cable. The small remote is also included, along with a battery. The speakers are a good weight, feel well made and I really like the wood finish. We leave them powered on all the time which means that they work well with Alexa and the sound quality from the Alexa dot is good. Streaming iTunes from the Airport with Apple’s higher quality stream the sound quality is really very good, excellent for the price in my opinion. Good stereo separation and sound field and really good dynamic width with decent low level bass without being boomy. I don’t have a subwoofer connected, but to be honest I don’t feel the need for one. Given that the speakers are sitting on top of a huge steel fridge freezer that may well be helping with the solid sound, either way sounds pretty good to me. In terms of volume, our kitchen is medium size, and they are more than loud enough and have not experienced any distortion at the levels we’re listening too. Some reviews have mentioned background hiss, but so far in my experience there is no detectable background hiss, noise or other interference. The remote is small and lightweight but does the job, it’s a bit confusing that the remote has buttons labelled ‘on’ & ‘off’ where these are in fact not power buttons, but instead are for turning on a truly terrible ‘sound field extension mode’; this just surrounds horrendous, is totally unnecessary and my advice is ignore it and never go there! Bluetooth seems to work well, only used it to test pair to my phone which was fine. I like the fact that the power supply is integrated (so no annoying brick), it would be nice if the power lead could be disconnected, but a minor gripe really. Overall, an excellent pair of ‘bookshelf’ speakers, really good sound for the size, well constructed and very flexible in terms of input source options. For what we’re using them for I don’t think I could have found anything better for even a substantially higher price, very pleased and would recommend them.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect upgrade from single box bluetooth speaker
*by T***. on 18 January 2023*

I'm really pleased with these, they look and sound great. I bought them to upgrade a single box bluetooth speaker in our large kitchen/family room (400 sq ft). It had served us very well for many years but had become our main "stereo" and it had both poor bass and treble response. Having researched broadly, these seemed the perfect replacement: A stereo pair, adequate amplification, small enough to get my wife's approval, additional inputs if required in future (e.g. chromecast audio and sub). They have a very crisp and clear sound and bass is good for their size and price (they are not floorstanders). They are definitely loud enough - to get high volime on bluetooth you obviously need to set the speaker volume to max and then control final volume on your source device. Note that compared to the R1280DB model, these don't just add a subwoofer socket: They have a nicer remote, better technical spec and bluetooth 5.0.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Impressive sound and connectivity in a small package
*by D***G on 18 April 2021*

Bought this set to replace an old and mostly broken DAB/CD micro system, realising that streaming etc are far more significant ways of listening in this day and age. Rigged it to an old tablet for streaming (e.g. TuneIn, Spotify, BBC Sounds) and stored mp3 playback via line in, optical digital input from TV and leaving the Bluetooth channel open for ad-hoc casting from phones etc. Having posted a query on here about the dubious sizes quoted in the specs, I am happy to report that the measured dimensions of each speaker are W = 5.75in/14.5cm, H = 9.5in/24cm and D (with grilles) = 7in/18cm. The dimensions quoted "per speaker" were actually for the retail packaging. Width and height turned out to be identical to our old speakers, so a physical drop-in replacement. Note that the "brains" are in the right hand speaker, and the tone controls on the right hand side of it. Power cable (hard wired) is 5ft, and the speaker connection cable (which could do with clearer polarity marking) is 8ft. Power consumption on standby is less than a watt (does not even register on my meter) and idle (powered but no sound) is 2 watts. There is no hum or hiss at idle that I can discern. Initial impression is very positive, though only had a couple of days. The sound is decent enough for the size of the units, with plenty enough bass for an old fogey in training. Everything I wanted to connect worked first time - analogue, digital and Bluetooth, with cables supplied for all wired inputs other than digital coaxial. The tone controls do not have as much effect as one might hope but can compensate for the acoustics of different shelves/cabinets etc these might be accommodated in. Input selection is straightforward especially via the remote, with a second tap on the relevant button for the secondary function (e.g. line-in #2, or coaxial rather than optical digital) acknowledged with an extra flash of the different colour LED behind the grille on the right hand speaker for each input type. The input selection and standby status appears to be memorised between physical powerings. A little surprisingly, the volume control on the side of the right hand speaker duplicates that on the remote; I had imagined it might be a physical limiter, but this is not a problem. In terms of any negatives at this early point: It's a shame the system does not memorise per-input volume settings, which would be easy to do with a fully electronic system such as this. It would be useful to have a left/right switch function, to allow the "brains" unit to be the left-hand speaker if that made the controls more accessible, though to be honest they are not generally needed when the remote covers day to day functionality. There's a reasonable lag on the digital input - thankfully approximately corresponding to the maximum compensation available on our TV (250ms) but not all TVs might allow this level of adjustment, so be aware if buying specifically for soundbar-type duties. I doubt there is any scope for end-user firmware update given the lack of any kind of accessible service port, so any improvements to these issues would have to wait for a later revision. It's a bit excessive taking up two buttons on the remote for the sound enhancement function that most people would probably not use at all. The remote itself is extremely directional and very clicky, though nicely finished and smart looking. Overall though, an amazing product that I can thoroughly recommend. If you think these are the kind of active speakers you're after, you're unlikely to be disappointed.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-05*