Altec Lansing inAir 5000 Wireless AirPlay Speaker Review

Like most Airplay-certified speakers, the prevailing look of the inAir 5000, which measures 7.5 by 19.0 by 7.8 inches, is black speaker grille cloth paired with brushed metallic accents and minimal controls.

All of the controls are situated on the side panels of the oblong, triangular, 8.5-pound speaker system.

On the right panel, there are three buttons: two for Volume, one for Mute.

On the left panel, there's a button for DIM mode (which basically puts the system to sleep), an Aux input button, as well as the actual 3.5mm Aux input and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The grille cloth hides two three-inch midrange drivers and two tweeters. A rear-firing four-inch subwoofer works in concert with a passive radiator to deliver serious bass response.

The rear panel houses the Power switch to the left of the actually power connection (a 19-volt adapter is included), a USB iPhone/iPod/iPad cable connection (the cable for this is not included so you'll have to use your charging cable when setting up the system or playing directly from a dock), an Ethernet port (cable included), a Wi-Fi connect button to reconnect with AirPlay out of sleep mode, and a recessed system Reset button.