I just gave my wife a Beosound Explore.

She is very happy with it - her main use is listening to e-books and a bit of radio/news.

I had a small bluetooth speaker laying around with pretty good sound and had presented that to her, when she first started talking about wanting more than just the iPhone.

As expected - when I started this up - she took two steps back (literally) - because that thingy makes very persistent noices when turning on (and off).

Knowing the pleasant ‘notes’ of a B&O device, when turning on/off, I instantly decided for getting her the Explore instead.

The moral of this story: there are more things to a bluetooth speaker, than just the fact that some of the competitors might sound better for certain purposes.

And…….she is fond of the design and the robustness - also happy with the green colour, that matches her iPad cover ;-)

Thank you B&O for making this little speaker.

What is the right choice for one person might not be the right for another - which is totally ok…….as long as we have a choice!

MM

Bought a silver Beosound Explore.

Soundwise it sits between P2 and A1. I like the design much more than the A, it's built like a tank and the buttons are much much better than on A1.

I put it right into the shower to see if it really survives... and it does and it was big fun for the kids to have the speaker under running water in the shower.
Of course I had to make clear, that they can ONLY do that with the Beosound Expore and NO other speaker. Just in case ;-)

Sound in a nearly reverberant Bathroom is okay and in that environment it's good that the Beosound Explore has a relatively weak bass reproduction.

Agree with Chris Townsend: Hope they'll release some more colors (especially a punchy great blue one!).

Contra: I have some erratic static noise while playing from my Sony Xperia 1 phone. Will test it with some other Bluetooth sources to see if it's the Explore or the Sony.

Any info on new colors? Hey B&O, I want a blue one, too :-)

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New colors launched:

Not for Explore... :-(

Bang & Olufsen Beosound Explore is availabe now in new colors:

- navy blue

- chestnut


I've bought a 2nd one in "navy blue". It's a surprisingly dark blue but looks good.
They must have changed either soft- or hardware, too as the new navy blue Explore doesn't have the sporadic crackling noise issue my first Beosound Explore has.

TWG wrote:

Bang & Olufsen Beosound Explore is availabe now in new colors:

- navy blue

- chestnut


I've bought a 2nd one in "navy blue". It's a surprisingly dark blue but looks good.
They must have changed either soft- or hardware, too as the new navy blue Explore doesn't have the sporadic crackling noise issue my first Beosound Explore has.

If changing hardware is the case, then how will that apply to the original colours? Throw in the bin and make a new batch? Probably not...

In any case, I wonder if it really is a hardware change due to a Class II Permissive Change on the Explore according to FCCID on 7th December 2022:

https://fccid.io/TTUBS-EXPLORE

Okay, I GUESS they must have changed something 😕 as I don't have the noise problems with my navy blue Explore.

My natural aluminium Explore has that sporadic issue. I exchanged the first Explore due to those issues and the exchanged unit has the same issue. Now the navy blue Explore works flawlessly and I don't experience that noise issue with it (streaming tested from the same phones of course).

The Beosound Explore is a great choice and the kids love to take a shower with it.
When they first watched me putting the Beosound Explore straight under the shower they where shocked. After seeing and of course hearing that it still works they immediately asked if this is a "G-Shock". Hope they understood very well that the Beosound Explores are our ONLY speakers that survive the shower.