B&O Archives • GadgetyNews https://gadgetynews.com/tag/bo/ Low Jargon: High Tech Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:24:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://gadgetynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-icon-32x32.jpg B&O Archives • GadgetyNews https://gadgetynews.com/tag/bo/ 32 32 Berluti x Bang & Olufsen Range of Fashionable AV Announced https://gadgetynews.com/berluti-x-bang-olufsen-range-of-fashionable-av-announced/ https://gadgetynews.com/berluti-x-bang-olufsen-range-of-fashionable-av-announced/#respond Thu, 03 Jun 2021 21:07:32 +0000 https://gadgetynews.com/?p=69907 GadgetyNews - Low Jargon: High Tech

Berluti x Beolab 90Parisian maker of fashionable leather goods, Berluti, and Danish luxury audio brand Bang & Olufsen

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Berluti x Beolab 90

Berluti x Bang & Olufsen Collaborate For Luxury Audio Visual Line

Parisian maker of fashionable leather goods, Berluti, and Danish luxury audio brand Bang & Olufsen have collaborated for a limited-edition collection of products.

Perfect for urban travellers and digital nomads, Beosound A1 2nd Gen Berluti Edition, Beoplay H95 Berluti Edition, and Berluti’s Sound Pouch are ideal for carrying on the go.

Rounding off the collection are a trio of decidedly non-portable special editions in the form of the Beosound Balance Berluti Edition, Beovision Harmony and Beolab 90.

Beosound A1 2nd Gen Berluti Edition

Bang & Olufsen’s second-gen portable Bluetooth speaker is waterproof, dustproof and boasts up to 18 hours of battery play time.

Berluti x Bang & Olufsen A1

The 360-degree omnidirectional speaker sports a three-microphone array and Alexa baked-in.

The minimalist design in Grey Mist features a large Berluti logo on top of the speaker, while a Berluti calf leather cord in shiny dark brown tones aids the A1’s portability. There is also an aluminium tag with the Bang & Olufsen logo laser engraved on one side and the Berluti logo on the other. The aluminium tag is completed with a mirror-polished finish, drawing inspiration from Berluti’s ready to wear accessory trimmings.

Beoplay H95 Berluti Edition

First launched in 2020, the H95 are arguably the Danish brand’s finest wireless headphones. Upgrading these comfortable noise-cancelling headphones is a headband featuring Berluti’s trademark Venezia leather with a TDM Intenso patina and the Maison’s embossed logo.

Berluti x Bang & Olufsen H95

The dark brown soft lambskin ear cushions match the Berluti Venezia leather headband, creating a cohesive expression. The aluminium discs have been engraved with the Berluti logo on the left-hand side and the Bang & Olufsen logo on the right. The headphones are housed in a black aluminium case where you’ll find more laser engraved logos.

Berluti Sound Pouch

Berluti has created a dedicated pouch that can comfortably cosset either the Beosound A1 speaker or the Beoplay H95 headphones.

Berluti x Bang & Olufsen Sound Pouch

Made with Berluti’s Signature Canvas – a motif blending Berluti’s new logo and the undulating strokes of the iconic Scritto – and featuring a patinated Venezia leather tag, it is ideal for safe carrying.

Beosound Balance Berluti Edition

Bang & Olufsen’s home object-inspired speaker features a hidden touch interface that lights up when approached and comes with Google Assistant and supports Apple Airplay2, Spotify Connect and Google Chromecast.

Berluti x Bang & Olufsen Balance

Seven carefully placed speaker drivers with beam-forming technology hands you the option of powerful and room-filling sound for everyday listening and sound directivity for precise and immersive music experiences.

Patinated by hand, Berluti’s Venezia leather is wrapped around the wooden base of Balance, creating a distinct finish and manufactured with Berluti’s artisanal know-how. The fabric has a dark knit with a touch of brown to match the leather base, which has been embossed with both logos and includes fine stitching around the base’s edge to create a touch of elegance. The top plate and grill come in natural aluminium for a high contrast and exclusive highlight to the darker materials.

Beolab 90 Berluti Edition

Featuring 8,200 watts of musical power, Beolab 90 adapts to its surroundings and your preferred listening modes to create an unprecedented level of musical power and precision, says the Danish audio brand.

Berluti x Bang & Olufsen Beolab 90

The base of the aluminium speaker is customised with Berluti’s Venezia leather – with a TDM Intenso patina to create a bold design statement and, funnily enough, is the perfect match for Beovision Harmony Berluti Edition.

Beovision Harmony Berluti Edition

Originally unveiled at Milan Design Week in 2019, the 77-inch TV folds down into a sculptural shape with the panels partially covering the screen. When you want to watch something, these wings fan out and elevate the screen above them to perfect viewing height.

Berluti x Bang & Olufsen Beovision Harmony

Featuring an LG 4k resolution OLED screen and motorised floor stand, infused in Berluti’s DNA through exceptionally fine, perforated and patinated Venezia leather covering the speaker panels, it offers a unique interactive experience, we are reliably informed.

A Berluti representative told GadgetyNews:

Berluti and Bang & Olufsen are a perfect match, bringing together a common passion for excellence. Bang & Olufsen’s cutting-edge philosophy, technological innovation and state-of-the-art design run parallel to the Maison’s focus on craftsmanship and its continually evolving lifestyle collection.

Christoffer Poulsen, SVP of Product Management & Brand Partnering at Bang & Olufsen, added:

For nearly a century, Bang & Olufsen has been pushing the boundaries of audio technology, and the company continues to sit at the forefront of acoustic innovation. Together with Berluti, we are bringing the best of artisanship to the fore with our expertise in sound and design and Berluti’s knowledge in leather craftsmanship to create a truly remarkable collection.

The Berluti edition Beoplay H95 (£1,100), Beosound A1 (£320), Beosound Balance (£3,200) and Sound Pouch (£450) will be available in limited quantities from May 28th 2021 at Bang & Olufsen at Harrods, Berluti at Harrods, Berluti Conduit Street and Mr Porter, as well as online at www.bang-olufsen.com. The made-to-order Beovision Harmony (£32,800) and Beolab 90 (£97,000) will be available to order from May 28th and showcased in select Berluti and Bang & Olufsen stores.

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Apple AirPlay 2 added to Bang & Olufsen speakers https://gadgetynews.com/apple-airplay-2-added-to-bang-olufsen-speakers/ https://gadgetynews.com/apple-airplay-2-added-to-bang-olufsen-speakers/#respond Wed, 30 May 2018 09:30:07 +0000 https://gadgetynews.com/?p=66970 GadgetyNews - Low Jargon: High Tech

bando-beoplay-2In January 2018, Bang & Olufsen announced that Apple AirPlay 2, Apple’s wireless multiroom audio

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b&o essenceIn January 2018, Bang & Olufsen announced that Apple AirPlay 2, Apple’s wireless multiroom audio system, will be integrated into 10 Bang & Olufsen and B&O PLAY multiroom speakers.

AirPlay 2 allows Apple customers to send audio from any app to B&O’s multiroom speakers from their with an iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.

With this latest announcement from Apple on AirPlay 2, it will be available in August and September of this year.

Beosound A9

With AirPlay 2, Bang & Olufsen and B&O PLAY speakers also work with HomePod, so you can use Siri to play music around the house.

Beosound 35
AirPlay 2 will be available to both new and older Bang & Olufsen and B&O PLAY speakers as an over-the-air update during August and September 2018.

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says Petros Belimpasakis, Director and Head of Sound Category and Platform in Bang & Olufsen.

AirPlay 2 is a seamless way to enjoy music from your favourite Apple device and is a natural extension of how people live with music. We are proud to be among the first companies to bring forward the experience of multiroom control in your Apple device and to deliver on the promise that our multiroom speakers connect with all streaming technologies.”

AirPlay 2 enabled speakers

The full list of speakers includes:

  • Beoplay M3
  • Beoplay M5
  • Beoplay A6
  • Beoplay A9 mk2
  • BeoSound 1
  • BeoSound 2
  • BeoSound 35
  • BeoSound Essence mk2
  • BeoSound Core
  • BeoSound Shape (via BeoSound Core)
  • BeoVision Eclipse (audio only)

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Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 1 wireless speaker review https://gadgetynews.com/bang-olufsen-beosound-1-wireless-speaker-review/ https://gadgetynews.com/bang-olufsen-beosound-1-wireless-speaker-review/#respond Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:15:23 +0000 https://gadgetynews.com/?p=66217 GadgetyNews - Low Jargon: High Tech

Lately we have housed a stray BeoSound 1 wireless speaker. It is a rather stylish

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beosound1Lately we have housed a stray BeoSound 1 wireless speaker. It is a rather stylish thing, as you would expect from Bang and Olufsen. Did we find it friendly though?

We do get a variety of wireless speakers here. Today’s offering may well be one of the most expensive (if you ignore the £18k Goldmund Metis Mk 2). B&O are renowned for their design-lead audio offerings.

Whenever I mention Bang and Olufsen, my friends split themselves in to two quite definite camps. There’s the ones that find B&O an aspirational brand who have loved the look of their kit since the days of wall-mounted vertical CD players. However, there’s the other lot. These tend to be more ‘serious’ about their two-channel Hi-Fi. This band of beings will cock a snook and mutter something about “lifestyle”, and possibly “architects”.

The strange thing is, I can see both arguments. Yes, they tend to be great to look at. They are also generally designed to be fuss free to set up and use. I don’t see anything wrong with this. Furthermore, a lot of the naysayers also happen to be iPhone owners. Now, isn’t ‘great looking’ and ‘it just works’ straight out of the Steve Jobs’ cook book? As for sound quality, we’ll cover that later.

BeoSound 1 design

bando beosound 1Yup, it is certainly striking. You would also be hard placed to assume it was from any other brand, even though there is only a hint of a logo tastefully engraved near the base.

I do love its brushed finish that would suit any room you placed it in. It’s such a lean and minimalist piece of audio furniture.

It manages to look hyper-modern yet, if you placed it in a wood-paneled study (I am assuming B&O owners will probably have a library or similar too), it would still look perfectly at home.

beosound 1 acoustic lensAnother cool design touch is the way the top portion of this audio Shard almost appears to float. This neat tick also lends it further wrappings of modernity.

It measures 16.2 x 32.7 cm (W x H) and weighs in at a reassuringly substantial 3.5kg.

However, just because it appears to be minimalist in design that doesn’t mean that it is short on features.

beosound 1 topFirstly, on that pseudo-floating top is a circular touchpad. This is used to pause, skip and play your music. Then, surrounding that pad and forming part of the outer metal casing, is a heavily damped volume-control ring. Finally, inside the “futuristic vase”, as one friend dismissed it, there is support for myriad streaming services and standards.

beosound 1 baseMusic is produced by way of a 1.5-inch full-range driver in the top part of the speaker firing down at a 360-degree acoustic lens, and a 4-inch bass driver in the… errr… base. This also hits a curved plate for dispersion.

Lastly, there is an integrated rechargeable battery that B&O says will see it through 16 hours of untethered playback at moderate volume (four hours at maximum).

BeoSound 1 performance

beosound 1 wooferThe pair of drivers together deliver a frequency response of 35Hz to 24.3kHz, according to the bumf. These are powered by a 40 watt class D amp for the full-range and a 20 watt class D for woofer.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the 360-degree cleverness works well and fills a room. Furthermore, it manages to do this without any real sense that the sound is coming from one particular point.

You are spoiled for ways to send music to the BeoSound 1, too. Firstly, there’s Apple AirPlay, Spotify Connect and Google Cast support. Additionally, you can just squirt tunes via Bluetooth.

The speaker can be added to Bang & Olufsen’s multiroom speaker system, and you can control it via the firm’s app as well. Within that app there’s integrated control over Spotify, Deezer QPlay and TuneIn, and the ability to stream from DLNA-networked music sources.

 

Setup

B&O appI downloaded the Bang & Olufsen app from the Google Play Store, and simply followed the wizard.

First, switch on Bluetooth and ensure you’re hooked up to your WiFi.

B&O appTap ‘Add Product’ and it will locate the speaker.

B&O appNow just add the speaker to your network. Done. It took me about a minute.

B&O appInside the app you can adjust the EQ using the Wall, Free, Corner presets and/or use the Treble and Bass sliders. Here you can also set alarms.

B&O appTapping on the Music icon at the foot of the app gives you the available roots to music. I went the way of DNLA in order to slurp up audio from my NAS.

Sound quality

The BeoSound 1 really is a joy to listen to. I can feel numerous ‘audiophiles’ pulling that face, but I don’t care.

To say that this is just a single unit with a couple small drivers, the output is tremendous. There is plenty of detail, but there is also expression, atmosphere, separation and an impressive soundstage. I can honestly say that I have not heard anything this good from a single wireless speaker yet. The Dali Katch is still my favourite go anywhere portable, but the BeoSound 1 is the one for home.

B&O appIt also handles a variety of music very well.

B&O appBauhaus’s haunting acoustic offering ‘All We Ever Wanted Was Everything’, practically has Pete Murphy and the gang sat with you around the table. ‘Frankenstein’ by Clutch is as dirty as you want it. The crunchy distorted guitar lays over the sludgy overdriven bass without muddying things.

Depeche Mode’s ‘Dream On’ also proved that the BeoSound can handle electronica too. Bass has good weight and authority, but also control and a rich warmth.

Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 1 review conclusion

Beosound 1Is the BeoSound 1 cheap and cheerful? Well, if you are familiar with Bang and Olufsen you would not ask. True, it is not what you’d call a budget speaker. But, the build quality, style, and finish is also what you would expect from this price bracket.

Furthermore, there is the sound quality. Additionally, the fact that it can go wireless so, once it has woken you up using the alarm you set, you can then take it with you to the breakfast room – I am assuming that is a thing that the monied will have.

It is an exquisite piece of audio jewelry and I would definitely buy one for each of the guest suites in the west wing of my imaginary mansion.

BeoSound 1 price and availability

You can purchase the BeoSound 1 right now. The official website states a price of £1085 but I have seen them new online for under £900.

It is available in Brass Tone, Natural (steel) and Infantry Green.

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