Thanks for sharing your experience. Is there any delay/lag when connected through wires? Is that through the 3.5mm jack, or via usb?

Is there autosense functionality, or do you have to switch them on and off manually (twice)?

crossbytje wrote:

Thanks for sharing your experience. Is there any delay/lag when connected through wires? Is that through the 3.5mm jack, or via usb?

No delay when wired.  I've used 3.5mm for testing purposes.  Have never tried usb; I should.  My standard configuration is BT.  Makes no difference when playing music, of course, and I just tested BT with a movie on the Mac to check the latency.  To my surprise, latency is just about non-existent.  I remember that BT latency was very much apparent when I was fiddling around with a MIDI keyboard.

Note: I've never been able to stereo-pair the two speakers when cabled, only wireless.  When daisy-chained together, the second speaker duplicates the first.

HEY BEOWORLD:  Does anyone know how to make a stereo pair of two Beoplay S3s, when using 3.5mm jack from computer to 1st speaker, and 3.5 daisy-chain to the second?

crossbytje wrote:

Is there autosense functionality, or do you have to switch them on and off manually (twice)?

IIRC, there's a stand-by mode, which implies autosense.  That said, I leave them on all the time.  It's a minimal power draw, iirc.

I still have a splitting cable from my BeoLab 4s, it takes a stereo 3.5mm connection and splits it into L and R channels. So I guess both can be set to act as daisy chained this way.

Not a fan of leaving them on all the time. Isn't there always a silent noise even if nothing is playing?

crossbytje wrote:

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Not a fan of leaving them on all the time. Isn't there always a silent noise even if nothing is playing?

No hiss, no hum.

As a follow-up, I dug up this information emailed to me by B&O Play support:

” You can switch between the two standby power modes by double pressing Image (the multibutton). In high power standby, BeoPlay S3 will have sense on all inputs and can wake up, and the product indicator will signal an action. This is also the default setting. In low power standby, the speaker will not have Bluetooth or input sense and there will be no product indicator signals.”

Hope this helps.

Interesting. 

I'm not the biggest fan of their design though. 

Is the M3 actually the successor of the S3? Or is it inferior?

I decided on getting a set of M3 speakers. Should be as good as the S3 I guess. + has airplay so I can use them on other occasions too for playing music in sync with my other speakers.