Fender Bluetooth Riff

[jd56hawk]

Looks good but does it sound good?

Fender Riff

Fender RIFF is a portable bluetooth speaker designed by Andrea Ponti. We design high-end speakers, audio equipment, headphones and portable audio.

www.andreaponti.com

 

[ardgedee]

The Riff is 3 years old. You're linking to the designer's portfolio rather than the product announcement.

Fender's 2026 Bluetooth line is ELIE, being debuted at CES 2026 rather than NAMM so I don't know whether they're targeting the pro audio market. They have both 1/4" and XLR ins (I think the RIFF only had 1/4" input) so it could be either or both.

Fender Audio will introduce a new line of Bluetooth speakers and headphones at CES

Fender Audio will be showing off some new consumer products at CES 2026.

tech.yahoo.com

 

[WRM]

I still regularly use it as a BT speaker, but it lacks "oomph" as an Instrument Amplifier (IMO), though I admit that I never tried with a booster in front of it - never got the "clip" light to come on (even on high gain), so never got it to full power?...

Thread 'NEW - Fender RIFF Bluetooth Speaker/Practice Amp'

Apr 12, 2023

I've been looking at portable stuff for a while, and this checks a lot of the boxes on my list.

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Has anyone tried one - thoughts? Any news about it from NAMM?

Thanks,

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