Beosound 1 vs Level

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eswa86
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Posted June 14, 2023 at 21:26 GMT
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I see, I do get that the BS1 doesn't run this Mozart platform, but on the other hand, neither of my other M3's or Core do (and will ever do?), so I'm f'ckd anyway when Google decides to upgrade their standards to a higher version, or? I am a frequent Chromecast user so that feature is quite important to me (it was actually one of the features that made me buy into the B&O system).

But good to hear that sound-wise the differences are negligible between the two (and the A5).
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tph
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Posted June 14, 2023 at 21:53 GMT
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There’s a huge leap in sound from Beosound 1 to the A5 – it’s much more capable in terms of bass and creating space around it (especially when placed closed to a wall and set to “front” directivity).

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eswa86
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Posted April 7, 2025 at 19:28 GMT
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Revisiting this discussion again 2 years later. I went for the Level in the end, found a good deal for one. On the one hand it is all nice, sound quality is fairly good, and the fact you can take it around is nice, but on the other hand it is very buggy for me. Often the app doesn't find it, or it does but I can't sync 2 speakers together. This happens both wireless and wired. Spotify connect clicks and pops like vinyl every now and then, and sometimes even Bluetooth seems buggy that my phone says it's playing with volume, both in the Spotify and B&O app, yet I don't hear anything even though the Levels volume is not null. Googling for solutions I find a lot of people complaining about the Levels reliability. So I was wondering how the A5 is in that regard?
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