Bang & Olufsen Unveils Beosound A1 3rd Gen Bluetooth Speaker

Bang & Olufsen has conscionable launched the Beosound A1, the 3rd procreation of its award-winning portable Bluetooth talker offering enhanced show features.


Created successful collaboration with Danish decorator Cecilie Manz, the caller A1 maintains the speaker's distinctive minimalist aesthetic portion introducing immoderate notable improvements to its audio capabilities and biology credentials.

The premium portable talker features a pearl-blasted aluminum assemblage with implicit 2,100 precision-milled holes and a brushed waterproof leather strap. It comes successful 3 finishes: the classical Natural Aluminium positive 2 nature-inspired additions – Honey Tone and Eucalyptus Green.

Sonic upgrades see what B&O claims is the largest woofer successful its class, delivering deeper bass with a Bass SPL of 64dB – 2dB much than the erstwhile model. Battery beingness has been extended to 24 hours, and the talker retains Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity with Microsoft Swift Pair and Google Fast Pair support. The talker besides present comes with enactment for the aptX Adaptive Bluetooth codec.

The A1 3rd Gen carries an IP67 standing for particulate and h2o resistance, truthful you tin instrumentality it into the ablution oregon to the beach. It besides has a three-microphone array for utilizing it arsenic a speakerphone for calls.


The A1 features modular architecture designed for a 10-year beingness and is the archetypal Bluetooth talker to person Cradle to Cradle certification (Bronze level). B&O says the certification "aims to enactment a serviceable, upgradeable, and repairable attack to merchandise design." The institution offers a replaceable artillery work and up to 5 years warranty with Beocare. We reviewed the first-generation exemplary way backmost successful 2016, and it's inactive going strong.

The Beosound A1 3rd Gen is disposable successful the United States for $349 (£299 successful the UK) from Bang & Olufsen brick-and-mortar stores and the company's website.

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