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At CES 2025, Anker has a pair of recent audio system beneath its Soundcore brand. The primary, the Soundcore Rave 3S, is a $349 social gathering speaker with AI-powered karaoke tips and built-in gentle reveals. Becoming a member of it’s the SoundCore Growth 2 Professional, a extra highly effective follow-up to its non-Professional namesake, which provides boomier bass and higher safety from water and mud.

The appropriately named Rave 3S is described as an “AI social gathering speaker” with 200W output and 108dB quantity. Anker says it might fill areas of as much as 1,076 sq. toes. Like another Soundcore fashions, its RGB LEDs can create a lightweight present that syncs with the beat of your music.

The Rave 3S features a pair of wi-fi microphones for karaoke nights. That’s the place the AI is available in: The speaker has a vocal removing characteristic that may “flip any track right into a karaoke observe with only one click on.” If it really works as marketed (we haven’t examined it but), it might prevent the difficulty of scouring YouTube or paying for a service like KaraFun to get de-voiced variations of your go-to jams.

It additionally features a vocal enhancement characteristic, which provides readability to your voice, and a reverb impact so you’ll be able to sound like Phil Collins in your air-drum-inducing cowl of “Within the Air Tonight.”

The Rave 3S has an estimated 12 hours of playtime, a bass-boost characteristic, IPX4 water resistance and a Spatial Audio mode. The social gathering in a field might be accessible on March 10 for $349.

Additionally coming quickly is the Soundcore Growth 2 Professional — the follow-up to final yr’s Growth 2 and Growth 2 Plus. The brand new mannequin has 4 drivers and a 140W output, making it higher than its predecessor for out of doors areas. Its bass can attain as little as 40Hz. The speaker has IP68 mud and water resistance (the Growth 2 and Plus variant have been solely rated IPX7), and Anker says it might float on water for pool events.

Just like the social gathering speaker, the Growth 2 Professional can produce an RGB gentle present, and it ships with a conveyable strap for slinging it over your shoulder. Anker says it has a 20-hour playtime. The Growth 2 Professional will launch in April (no precise date but) for $249.