Bang & Olufsen - Beosound Level

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Beosound Level or Beosound A5. Pair for full stereo and better placement. Run all day on battery. Third party cases for Level, like a brief case. A5 has a carry handle like a basket. Wifi casting over uPnP, DLNA and Airplay 2. Not just Bluetooth. £3200 for a pair of speakers is a lot. At the launch price they were good, but the full price now is harder to justify. Level is on discount for the next couple of weeks before a September price hike. See Andrew Robinson's take on the Levels a couple of years back (YouTube). They have changed, software, since and have a low latency input for 3.5 mm to a single speaker, reduced latency over Ethernet and with the Theatre can be used as side, rear and height speakers in a surround sound set up. Using Airplay 2 they can be used with a Mac, iPhone or Apple 4K TV box to watch video/movies. And yes there is a Ferrari edition well an Atelier Limited Edition Beosound Level Frosted Green and was a limited *Beosound Level Lilac Twilight* edition..

Beosound Level or Beosound A5. Pair for full stereo and better placement. Run all day on battery. Third party cases for Level, like a brief case. A5 has a carry handle like a basket. Wifi casting over uPnP, DLNA and Airplay 2. Not just Bluetooth. £3200 for a pair of speakers is a lot. At the launch price they were good, but the full price now is harder to justify. Level is on discount for the next couple of weeks before a September price hike. See Andrew Robinson's take on the Levels a couple of years back (YouTube). They have changed, software, since and have a low latency input for 3.5 mm to a single speaker, reduced latency over Ethernet and with the Theatre can be used as side, rear and height speakers in a surround sound set up. Using Airplay 2 they can be used with a Mac, iPhone or Apple 4K TV box to watch video/movies. And yes there is a Ferrari edition well an Atelier Limited Edition Beosound Level Frosted Green and was a limited *Beosound Level Lilac Twilight* edition..

Beosound Level or Beosound A5. Pair for full stereo and better placement. Run all day on battery. Third party cases for Level, like a brief case. A5 has a carry handle like a basket. Wifi casting over uPnP, DLNA and Airplay 2. Not just Bluetooth. £3200 for a pair of speakers is a lot. At the launch price they were good, but the full price now is harder to justify. Level is on discount for the next couple of weeks before a September price hike. See Andrew Robinson's take on the Levels a couple of years back (YouTube). They have changed, software, since and have a low latency input for 3.5 mm to a single speaker, reduced latency over Ethernet and with the Theatre can be used as side, rear and height speakers in a surround sound set up. Using Airplay 2 they can be used with a Mac, iPhone or Apple 4K TV box to watch video/movies. And yes there is a Ferrari edition well an Atelier Limited Edition Beosound Level Frosted Green and was a limited *Beosound Level Lilac Twilight* edition..

B&O Beosound Level, 16 hours battery, easy to transport. Stereo pair but is a stereo speaker in the box with five drivers. Detailed, more bass than many bookshelf and stand mount speakers. Very over priced at 1600GBP but seen on sale second hand for less. Good enough to replace some high end full size set ups. Beosound A5 has more punch and bass but some prefer the balance of the Levels.

There are stereo portable speakers. But you will not get much of a stereo effect if the speaker has drive units closer together than your body width as near field e.g. behind a laptop screen. There are small speakers e.g. Minirig 2 that when paired give a good stereo field. I use a Beosound Level with a laptop but they sound a great deal better as a pair than on their own. It fits into the laptop sleeve of a backpack but even second hand too expensive to carry around.

B&O Beosound. You will not regret it.

I have to say that, for as much as I love the Bose speakers I own, battery drain is far more noticeable than with other brands I own. My Bang & Olufsen speakers have the absolute least battery drain while idle; JBL is great for power retention, too.

You could use the rca outs to a headphone jack and use wired headphones. No pairing required. The soundburger works great and sounds great overall. It seems to pair ok if you hold the bluetooth speaker super close…I haven’t tried AirPods though. I don’t DJ anymore so I’m not out actively mining for gold, but a soundburger would have been handy for that. I used to see some people 30 years ago with junky suitcase players or fisher price set ups to listen on the fly.