Severed_Hand_of_Skywalker wrote:

I keep hearing the Sonos Play:5 is a better choice. Especially since you can get TWO of them for the same price as the B&O.

Plus it doesn't look like the back of an office chair.

The Sonos 5 looks like a block, at least the A6 has some style and is diiferent to the majority of speakers out there. But if you just want cheap, no style and mass market then sonos is most probably the way to go, luckily now a days we have a range of choice of speakers which suit all our needs!

Hiort wrote:

benoit wrote:

Does anyone know when the floor stand will be available as I would like to use it as a table stand to put the A6 on a small Knoll tulip side table?

I´m not sure what the floor stand really add. Think its only a slight tilt upwards. The A6 still has a rubber surface on each end underneath to stand on, so to put in on e.g a cabinet is no problem.

I have in mind to place the A6 on a small Knoll tulip side table which is only 40cm diameter. I guess that the floor stand will be more convenient according to the size of the table and that it will look better.

badgersurf wrote:

The Sonos 5 looks like a block, at least the A6 has some style and is diiferent to the majority of speakers out there. But if you just want cheap, no style and mass market then sonos is most probably the way to go, luckily now a days we have a range of choice of speakers which suit all our needs!

I guess it depends if you want to look at your speakers or listen to them. Im all about design as a designer myself but for the cost of the A6 you will undoubtedly get better SOUND from the 2 Sonos 5 speakers for the same cost of 1 A6.

Severed_Hand_of_Skywalker wrote:

... but for the cost of the A6 you will undoubtedly get better SOUND from the 2 Sonos 5 speakers for the same cost of 1 A6.

So - you have already heard the A6?

MM

Millemissen wrote:

So - you have already heard the A6?

MM

Yup, last Friday. Sounds good, nothing mind-blowing. Looks ok also but not quite my taste. Definitely not worth the price though. If it was cheaper than would be justifiable.

Different tastes are ok!

I guess this is more a question about wanting the B&O opportunity or the Sonos opportunity.

MM

After two weeks I can confirm I like the A6. It took some speaker burn-in and also I wanted to decrease bass so I did set the switch to wall setting. 

NL works flawlessly, looks cool (if such design is your thing - for me it is). I definitely plan to wall-mount it and put it a bit higher as it is placed in corridor so the ear level is higher than normal sitting position.

Sexy thing: I have connected my Beocenter 8500 Powerlink to A6's line-in so when I play CD on a Beocenter I hear the sound on A6 and can share it via NL even on the A9 in my living room. Very cool.

Finally: looking forward for additional covers to become available. 

We are thinking of renovating our bathroom, and replace the BL2000 speaker now fixed on the wall.

After this renovation I would like to have also NL capabilities in the bathroom, but I wonder if the A6 would be as resistant to the humid conditions of such a room in comparison to the BL2000.

Oops!  Sorry replied to a very old post!

I read in the What HiFi review that the A6 could be paired with an Avant (new).  Has anybody experience of this.  Assuming this would need to be a wired connection to the TV.  Was hoping it could be done wirelessly to have some mulito room functionality.