I bought the C10 MkII to replace a Sonos and ended up replacing an integrated amplifier instead. That was not the plan. The plan was to have a single speaker in the dining room that played Apple Music when guests came over. What I did not realize when I ordered it is that the back panel has a pair of RCA inputs, which meant my turntable — which had been sitting in a closet because the receiver it used to live with finally died — had somewhere to go.
So now there is a Swedish wooden box on my sideboard, and it is doing the job of a speaker, an AirPlay endpoint, and a phono preamp's destination, and it is doing all three well enough that I have not missed the rack of separates it replaced. The 80 watts is not a marketing number. It fills a real living room, and at half volume it is louder than I usually want.
What Audio Pro got right is the combination of inputs. Most lifestyle speakers in 2026 ship with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and call it a day. The C10 MkII has those — AirPlay 2 for the Apple side of my house, Google Cast for the Android visitor, Bluetooth with AAC for the convenience case — but it also has analog. RCA in for the turntable, RCA sub-out for the day I decide to add a subwoofer, an honest hi-fi component pretending to be a wireless speaker. The Audio Pro app works with Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music, and a handful of internet radio sources, and it doesn't crash, which puts it ahead of about half the apps in this category.
The sound is what I'd call clean and forward rather than warm and lush. Vocals sit out in front. Acoustic guitar has air around it. Hi-res streams genuinely sound better than compressed ones, which is not always true on a single-box speaker. The one place it stops short is the very bottom of the bass range — there's enough thump for jazz and pop, but if you mostly listen to electronic or hip-hop you'll want the sub.
The complaints are the obvious ones at this size and price. It is mains-only, so there is no taking it to the patio without an extension cord. There's no USB-C input, which is an odd 2026 omission. Android users don't get aptX, which means Bluetooth is the lossy option rather than the lossless one. And at four kilograms, this is not a speaker you reposition casually — pick a spot and leave it.
The real comparison is the HomePod at $299. The HomePod is easier to set up, has more sensors, and integrates with Apple stuff in ways the C10 MkII can only approximate. The C10 MkII sounds better and accepts a turntable. Pick the one whose strength you actually use.
Verdict: Buy this if you have analog gear you want to keep, or if you already know AirPlay 2 isn't the only thing you need from a speaker. If a HomePod fits your life, save the $180.