Beoplay A1 Review: This Bluetooth Speaker Sounds Even Better Than It Looks

[Gasu E.]

Thanks. I am simply saying that any comments that are supposed to make somebody else look silly or have nothing to do in the discussion are left out. Wether or not somebody would belong on Apple's board is off topic and to imply a person would be a bad influence on that company is guessing, at best.
Also, Beats are not topic of this discussion, neither is the purchase of that company. We have learned that you like streaming radio though, thanks for that.
Now back to this speaker please.

In fairness, he was not the one who introduced corporate M&A strategy into a product review thread. That was, in fact, brought in by the guy he was responding to.

 

[ericwn]

In fairness, he was not the one who introduced corporate M&A strategy into a product review thread. That was, in fact, brought in by the guy he was responding to.

Fair point, thanks for pointing this out!
Cheers,
E.

 

[MH01]

Thankfully, you don't sit in Apple's board.

B&O from a design perspective makes more sense than Beats, but Apple did not buy Beats for the hardware . Well the jury is out if the board got it right with Beats, Apple Music is skill kinda a mess for many Apple users, which hopefully will be fixed in the near future

 

[M. Gustave]

Apple Music is skill kinda a mess for many Apple users, which hopefully will be fixed in the near future

It's getting there. Vastly improved since launch.

 

[MH01]

It's getting there. Vastly improved since launch.

It will get there. Disappointing they launched it before it was ready, though they did offer a generous three months trial.

 

[MXBY]

I was considering getting one of these B&O A1's, but I learned that it doesn't have support for the aptX codec, but uses some older compression to transfer audio over Bluetooth.

What do you think people, does it matter? Should we hope for a firmware upgrade?

Also, I'm mainly looking to use my speaker at home (in different rooms), so maybe this "ultraportable" isn't the right choice.

 

[gimikinc]

It looks nice, but $249 is steep for a BT speaker. My boombotix from kickstarter is not 1.3lbs and sounds great for less than 1/3 of the cost.