Bang & Olufsen (B&O) has launched a brand new model of its picnic basket-shaped Beosound A5 Bluetooth speaker that’s wrapped totally in aluminum. The corporate calls the brand new look Spaced Aluminium and says that you would be able to swap the speaker’s cowl with two different accessible finishes — Nordic Weave and Darkish Oak. The Spaced Aluminium model is out there for $1,399 beginning October 26 from bang-olufsen.com and choose retailers.
What’s intriguing in regards to the Spaced Aluminium’s design is the way in which it makes use of an array of three,500 particular person aluminum discs to kind the speaker grille.
“We’ve labored with totally different round patterns throughout our speaker grille designs for a few years,” mentioned Michael Henriksson, B&O’s vp of product advertising and marketing. “It has turn out to be a signature, however this can be a brand-new fashion.”
Usually, when B&O creates grilles with round patterns, the circles are the cutouts — the a part of the grille that’s acoustically clear. On the Spaced Aluminium cowl, it’s the other. Two layers of aluminum are used to provide the phantasm that the discs are floating and sound is channeled via the areas between the discs.
B&O isn’t any stranger to aluminum. We noticed what it may do with the fabric after we reviewed the corporate’s Beosound Stage soundbar. “We’ve obtained a wealthy historical past in aluminium,” Henriksson mentioned, “and we’re intrigued by our previous. Aluminium is a timeless materials that ages gracefully and displays our values for creating merchandise that final.”
Apart from the visually and materially totally different cowl, the brand new Beosound A5 variant is similar to the speaker B&O launched earlier in 2023. It has 280 watts of energy, IP65 water and mud safety, a chargeable battery that gives 12 hours of playtime, each Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for wi-fi speaker connectivity, and a helpful wi-fi charger constructed into the highest floor.
Together with the brand new Spaced Aluminium mannequin, B&O says it’s including two new options to the Beosound A5. Beginning in November, you’ll have the ability to robotically stereo-pair two A5s which can be bodily shut to at least one one other — a welcome addition provided that the Beosound A5 is a mono speaker when used alone.
Then, in 2024, the corporate says it can launch a function referred to as Fluid Candy Spot. You probably have an iPhone 11 or newer and a stereo-paired set of Beosound A5s, Fluid Candy Spot can alter the sound output of the 2 audio system such that it’s optimized to your listening place (as decided by your iPhone). The identical function was first introduced in September when B&O debuted its Beolab 8 speaker, although on the time, the corporate hadn’t landed on the Fluid Candy Spot title.
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