Merry Christmas to you and yours, or should that be Feliz Navidad?

I have both the A1 (natural, royal blue) and the A2 (natural, blue). The A2’s bass goes noticeably deeper than the A1, so if space allows, that would be my preferred option. But remember two things:

- The A2 has speakers on both of its flat sides. If you’re positioning it against a wall, it sounds best with at least an inch gap between it and the wall. This may be problematic if you choose to hang it from a hook directly against a wall.

- An A2 standing on edge is less stable than an A1 sitting on its rubberised base, and so may be more at risk of being knocked off its perch.

Lawrence

I own both and agree with the comments Lawrence makes. I find the bass from the A2 particularly strong/impressive when placed on a wooden floor although that might not suit your requirements.

But ultimately I think both are great devices for what they coast.

Good Morning and Merry Christmas to you alls. Thank you for your replies.

lawrencejmcook wrote:

Merry Christmas to you and yours, or should that be Feliz Navidad?

Yes, you should not, but you can! Feliz Navidad para ti tambien if it's relevant 👍

Duels wrote:

I find the bass from the A2 particularly strong/impressive when placed on a wooden floor although that might not suit your requirements.

Are you saying that because it will hang against the wall, it will end sounding worst or just that deeper bass may not be good in that "room"?

Anyway, thank you for your both answers as they help me to get more comfortable in my choice.

If anyone interested here is the plan:

The restrooms are quite large for restrooms only but the only power socket is very badly located (just under the light switch) and anything which could use that socket can't be placed around. So the idea is to make a sort of socket with a hook on it to hang the A2. That thing has to be long enough to push the A2 maybe 3 or 4 cm away from the wall.Just enough to hide an airport express behind somewhere against the grill where there's not a speaker. The AE will be powered with the socket/hook and connected to the A2 via Aux-In to join the house music network. Guests should have power on/off and volume control from the device. And I'll need to charge the speaker from time to time unless i found a way to hide a power supply also behind the speaker. This why the form factor is important. I was able to hide the AE for the A1 in the bathroom but here, it's not possible.

All the best.

Merry Christmas to you too.

Just wondering why you are so keen on having the AE’s in the mix?

As a guest (probably just for short amount of time) I’d be happy with using Bluetooth directly to the A1/2.

Do you need these for access to your home network or is it just to provide the internet connection (....which could be done in another way)?

MM

Thank you Millemissen,

Thank you for asking as it will help me ton confront my choices!

The main reason is the home music network is Airplay based. I think that when people need to go there, they will not always take their phone with them and go into the pairing routine etc… But they maybe will like to being "covered" by the ambiant music? Comments welcome about that!

Maybe I should be more clear on two things:
- First, by guests, i mean diner guests, not people staying couple of days.
- The restrooms are far enough from the living space to people have enough privacy during a dinner. But, as it make sense theoretically and i love to see that long list of airplay speakers, then… 👍 

matador43 wrote:

And I'll need to charge the speaker from time to time unless i found a way to hide a power supply also behind the speaker.

If you get an A2 Active then the charger connection is USB C.  I am not sure where you live, but perhaps you could replace the restroom power socket with something like this: 

Matador43,

Instead of having to carefully position 2 devices in each room, why not try a single M3 in each room instead? You may even be able to build a combined power plug / wall bracket to hold it beneath the power socket. And it will be fully Airplay and Multiroom compatible.

Unfortunately, I can’t advise on the sound quality vs A1 or A2 as I’ve never heard the M3.

Lawrence

matador43 wrote:

Thank you Millemissen,

Thank you for asking as it will help me ton confront my choices!

The main reason is the home music network is Airplay based. I think that when people need to go there, they will not always take their phone with them and go into the pairing routine etc… But they maybe will like to being "covered" by the ambiant music? Comments welcome about that!

Maybe I should be more clear on two things:
- First, by guests, i mean diner guests, not people staying couple of days.
- The restrooms are far enough from the living space to people have enough privacy during a dinner. But, as it make sense theoretically and i love to see that long list of airplay speakers, then… 👍 

Of course that is your choice, but I would not grant my guest access to my home network (mine have access to a guest network for internet connection).

Given that these are ‘rest’rooms, it might also be that your guests just want to ‘rest’ ;-)

 

Another idea/possibility could be some Beoplay S3’s. Since you plan to have the device/s connected to power that would be no problem - they are designed to be mains connected.

They are really powerfull and will surely give your guests a blast, when they are through with ‘resting’.....and the freedom to choose whatever they want to listen to (using BT)

And you can still get the wall brackets from STBBrackets!

 

Ok - that would not give you the good feeling of having the ‘long list of AirPlay speakers....I know.

But it would be much easier to manage....BT is straightforward and surely sufficientvforca smallish speaker.

 

Just an idea and maybe a help for finding the right solution.

MM

matador43 wrote:

The main reason is the home music network is Airplay based. I think that when people need to go there, they will not always take their phone with them and go into the pairing routine etc… But they maybe will like to being "covered" by the ambiant music? Comments welcome about that!

The process of hooking ones mobilephone up to a BT speaker is straight forward.....and the guests can choose to do it or leave it for the ‘resting’ time.

I imagine, that it would be more troublesome for them to connect to your music network.

And what if they just want to listen to a podcast or the news.....?

 

If they rather should be covered by ‘ambient music’, you would have to organize that......play to these speakers from a central point without the guests being involved - is that maybe what you want to?

Lots of options - all depending on what you think should happen.

 

MM