Fender’s new Bluetooth speakers can play audio from four sources simultaneously

Fender, the guitar shaper besides known for its amps and speakers, has a caller user electronics marque called Fender Audio making its debut astatine CES 2026. In summation to a caller brace of wireless headphones, Fender Audio has announced a brace of portable Bluetooth speakers called ELIE, which is short for “Extremely Loud Infinitely Expressive.”

The ELIE speakers will beryllium disposable successful 2 sizes, but some versions tin beryllium connected to a 2nd portion to create a stereo pair, aliases you tin link and sync up to 100 of them to capable a larger abstraction pinch sound. They besides some support a unsocial characteristic letting you perceive to audio from up to 4 different audio inputs simultaneously. These tin see a Bluetooth instrumentality for illustration a smartphone, an instrumentality aliases microphone plugged into the ELIE’s XLR/1/4-inch combo jack pinch a cable, and 2 different accessories connected utilizing Fender’s proprietary wireless system.

The smaller of the 2 is the $299.99, 7.7-inch-tall ELIE 6 featuring a built-in subwoofer paired pinch a full-range driver and a tweeter that outputs up to 60W of sound. Its artillery life is rated astatine up to 18 hours, while a 15-minute speedy complaint should beryllium bully for up to 90 minutes of playback. The larger type is the $399.99 ELIE 12, which stands conscionable nether 7 inches gangly but is overmuch wider astatine 11 inches. It doubles the speakers successful the ELIE 6 pinch 2 subwoofers, 2 full-range drivers, and 2 tweeters outputting up to 120W of sound. Battery life is reduced to up to 15 hours arsenic a result, but a 15-minute speedy complaint will springiness you an other 2 hours of listening.