Apple does not make a transportable speaker to go along with its very un-portable HomePod. But when it made one just like the Bang & Olufsen Beosound A5 it’d immediately be the finest transportable Bluetooth speaker but.
That is as a result of the Beosound A5 simply seems to be beautiful with its two colour choices. There is a black anthracite aluminum model with a darkish oak wooden speaker cowl that appears completely gorgeous. Then there’s the pure aluminum model with a woven paper fiber entrance. They each look good, though we all know which our fave is.
The Beosound A5 does not simply look good, although. It has the options to again it up.
Sounds good to us
These options in fact begin with assist for AirPlay 2, which is at all times an excellent jumping-off level. Then there’s additionally assist for Chromecast and Spotify Join. You most likely would not get that if this had an Apple brand on it, although.
When it comes to innards, there is a 5.25-inch woofer and a pair of 2-inch midrange audio system. An extra three-quarter-inch tweeter handles the highs. However actually, we’re solely right here for these seems to be.
“Beosound A5 is our new high-end transportable speaker which mixes Bang & Olufsen’s long-standing strategy to timeless design with our imaginative and prescient on sound for the longer term”, says VP of Product Advertising and marketing, Michael Henriksson by way of press launch. “We’re excited to collaborate with GamFratesi for the primary time, to create two speaker designs which can be rooted in a Scandinavian aesthetic with a definite design signature on their very own”.
That Scandinavian aesthetic does not come low-cost, although. There’s some very Apple-like pricing happening with the darkish wooden model out there for $1,149 and the cheaper Nordic weave setting consumers again $1,049. Neither is what we would name low-cost however oh boy simply take a look at them.
It is certainly solely a matter of time earlier than Apple launches one thing like this beneath the HomePod title. And let’s simply hope it seems to be one thing like this one.
