This must be quite impressive according to the size! I already find that my BeoPlay A2 has more bass and better fills the room than my old BeoLab 4!
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Id agree with thatThe bass will be more powerful.
This must be quite impressive according to the size! I already find that my BeoPlay A2 has more bass and better fills the room than my old BeoLab 4!
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And what about the BeoPlay A2? Is the BL15 much better?
Gotten 2 BeoPlay A2s one in black and one in green, they are good for portability and for the bathroom. But the cabinet resonance contributes greatly to the muffling of the sound. Not the clearest speakers.
B&O should introduce portable speakers to the core Bang & Olufsen line. They fact that they are not doing it is actually a little silly. Small expensive things sell better than large expensive things. Great publicity too... But you need to have the goods to back it up Core range should go up and up to inform the cheerful BeoPlay range. I think people who can afford $5000 bags can afford $1000 portables to go into them.
This must be quite impressive according to the size! I already find that my BeoPlay A2 has more bass and better fills the room than my old BeoLab 4!
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Of course the BL4 have a much clearer sound but I still think that they miss a lot of bass. Maybe that's why I like the 'boomy' impression that the BeoPlay A2 gives. I'm curious to listen to the Beloit 15...
My experience with these "bass-radiators" are that they give the impression of deeper bass, but they bass sounds the same all the time. There are no nyances in the bass.
But there has to be a limit to what to expect from portable speakers.
This test brings some first impressions. Beolit 15 vs 12 and A2.
Seems like the new version has shaken off B&O's signature crisp sound a little and a lot meatier in the bass. No passive radiators are not suppose to make bass boomy. It's in the voicing. I guess B&O had deliberately voiced speakers that way. The thing is the cabinet is too flimsy for such low bass voicing so and it's the cabinet that is blurring the sound. But who cares at this price? Beoplay competes favorably to Bose.
Seems like the new version has shaken off B&O's signature crisp sound a little and a lot meatier in the bass. No passive radiators are not suppose to make bass boomy. It's in the voicing. I guess B&O had deliberately voiced speakers that way. The thing is the cabinet is too flimsy for such low bass voicing so and it's the cabinet that is blurring the sound. But who cares at this price? Beoplay competes favorably to Bose. B&O has such an untapped potential in its branding strategy you have no idea..
@Simonbeo, What year is your Century please? Mine is December 1999. I wonder if cheaper Philips laser assembly were fitted in 1999? Maybe, it's better wall mounted but mine is simply terrible. Turn past volume 42 and the CD skipping is all over the place. I have treble on +4 and bass on +3. There's no way i could ever of used the thing for even the smallest of house parties due to that skipping. I happy for you that you like your Century, but for me, it was a complete disappointment, I was very young when I bought it and it took me a full year to save money to buy the thing. :(
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