Status, October 2026: current. AlphaTheta still lists the WAVE-EIGHT.
What it is
The WAVE-EIGHT is a battery-powered 8-inch DJ speaker from AlphaTheta, announced on 25 January 2024 (AlphaTheta launch news), and AlphaTheta pairs it with the OMNIS-DUO portable all-in-one for cable-free sets.
Its main feature is SonicLink, a 2.4 GHz wireless link that AlphaTheta says is much faster than Bluetooth. A transmitter in the box plugs into the RCA output of a DJ mixer or controller and sends audio about 15 m; it stores and charges in a covered compartment on the side of the speaker. Up to four speakers daisy-chain over SonicLink, each set to left, right or both channels, and one can run as a subwoofer. Bluetooth 5.1 is there for phones, and two speakers pair over Bluetooth as a stereo pair.
It is a two-way bass-reflex design with an 8-inch aramid-fibre woofer, a 1-inch soft dome tweeter and a 110 W amplifier. A switch picks one of six sound modes: Music, Flat, a low-cut version of each for use with a subwoofer, Speech and Subwoofer. Under a rear cover sit two XLR/1/4-inch combo line inputs, a 1/4-inch mic input with level, two-band EQ and echo, a 3.5 mm aux input, an XLR line out and a USB-C port that charges a phone.
The battery runs for about eight hours and recharges in four to six. The speaker is rated IPX4 when upright with its covers closed, and it has casters, a telescopic handle, top and side handles and a 35 mm pole socket. It measures 300 x 554 x 337 mm and weighs 12.7 kg. The box holds the speaker, the transmitter, a power cable, a transmitter cable, an RCA cable and paperwork (instruction manual).