did another video of the sound here with it all in different positions, it sounds fairly accurately representative of my headphones actually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcI70OKTkLI&feature=youtu.be

 

-Michael

Thanks for another video Michael - great and informative as always! Maybe for your consideration to include some electonic music and DM into the playlist... was great for example to have that rock track at the end after few more soft female vocalist/ambiental tracks that B&O typically likes to use to demo their speakers. 

And I need to say... I totally feel I need BS Level! :D

If you or anyone else knows of anything that happens to be copyright free i’d be happy to ad that to the playlist, it just took me for ever to find something decent that doesn’t immidiately get struck down 😎

kuyttendaele wrote:

Excellent new product! Good design... fantastic features! The wood version is drooling good looking.

I hope that this is a seller!

I just read a review and watched a video about the Level and this product looks fantastic. It is beautiful and what an excellent choice to make the battery and "system chip" replaceable.

Review with pictures: 

Sorry I don't come on here much at all. 

It was good reading through all  these comment though, thanks. It's a hard label to shift as at the end of the day I work in a dealership but I do say what I really think. If I don't like something I will either bring it up as a negative or just stick to facts with no opinion or just not make a video. The E6 earphone video is an example, I remember not being very impressed and I said as much.

I'm not an official brand ambassador so B&O don't have any input into the content on my channel. It really is just me doing something I like. 

AnalogPlanet you are 100% right, going to listen for yourself is always the best way, just because I prefer something doesn't mean everyone will, although it's really nice that a lot of people seem to trust what I say. 

Just to elaborate a little on the BS1/BS2/Level comparison, I cut a little out as to not make the video too long. 

I certainly think Level out classes the Beosound 1 sound wise in every way. (Not that BS1 sounds bad) 

With Beosound 2 I said I prefer to sit in front of Level for it's more direct stereo sound. Beosound 2 is lovely and still remains a firm favourite. 

Beosound 2 may fill a larger space, with it being mains powered and 360 in nature also it has a little more oomph but I find Level more pleasing to listen to, especially at low to mid volume levels. 

In my living room where I filmed the video (and my kitchen for that matter) I was staggered by the clarity and composure of the sound that Level gave out. It really is a fantastic little audio system. 

So much so I would like to buy a grey one to replace my M3 in the kitchen. 

 

Hope this clears things up a bit, but it's best to listen for yourself. All the best everyone....

 

John from B&O Manchester. 

Old thread, but anybody who reads down this far might care to look at the Wired Magazine (UK) review of the Level 2/11/2021:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bang-olufsen-beosound-level-review

trackbeo wrote:

Old thread, but anybody who reads down this far might care to look at the Wired Magazine (UK) review of the Level 2/11/2021:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bang-olufsen-beosound-level-review

I've been trialing the Level for ~2 weeks now and believe this review is pretty spot on.  Like the reviewer, I'm also having difficulty finding a perfect spot for it in my kitchen (one of the complaints brought out in the above review). This, and the lack of NL is what is keeping on the fence from buying it. 

Stan wrote:

This, and the lack of NL is what is keeping on the fence from buying it. 

After release I was only able to hold myself back a few days before ordering one.  It is just such a beautiful, timeless design with fantastic audio performance specifications.

It looks and sounds every bit as beautiful as expected, but the lack of NL compatibility has had me seriously consider returning it.  It is not just the frustration of not being able to join the sound stream playing elsewhere in my house.  It's also the horrible integration with the app.

All the rest of my great gets control, configured, and operated through the B&O app.  But the Level requires me to switch between the B&O and Deezer apps.  And if I start casting Deezer from my phone I can't take over the playlist from my iPad.

There's also the problem that the streaming services available for the Level are completely different from the services on the other 10 B&O streaming devices I own.  I've been using Deezer and TuneIn for the past 6 years, but neither legacy service works on the new Level.  And the new services don't work on my legacy equipment, so even the terrible option of switching everything over isn't available.

The whole things just feels like such a mess.

🙁

If you don't have immediate need, I'd honestly recommend waiting until NL shows up.  If I had known that it would be this annoying to use the Level I wouldn't have bought it.  I finally decided to hold on to it, given the expectation that it will work with NL later this year.

laseralex wrote:

There's also the problem that the streaming services available for the Level are completely different from the services on the other 10 B&O streaming devices I own.  I've been using Deezer and TuneIn for the past 6 years, but neither legacy service works on the new Level.  And the new services don't work on my legacy equipment, so even the terrible option of switching everything over isn't available.

Oh that's not good. I use TuneIn on both the Balance and BeoSound 2 to stream Virgin Radio! I can simply shout out to the speaker with GVA to stream it, too, so no need for a device to control.

Maybe the lack of TuneIn is regional? Definitely works here on my current products.

With GVA (you may already know this, but it was news to me, and I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled on to this), you have more options on streaming sources.  It seems that any source that can "cast" to google is available via GVA.  For example, up thread, laseralex helped me add a station to TuneIn that had moved to Radio.com so my older devices can use it.  With the Level, I can just say "play wxrt", and it responds "playing wxrt from radio.com".  I can tell it to "play wdcb" and it responds "playing wdcb from TuneIn".  This works even though the Level doesn't "support" TuneIn or Radio.com.  What you lose is the abililty to "join" to the services started via GVA because Chromecast sources are not joinable.  I suppose once you get used to using GVA, then maybe some of these NL features are less important.  Of course, since the Level doesn't support NL, you lose nothing (except some privacy). 

Also, if you start a B&O radio source by pressing one of the buttons, then you can't shut it off with GVA, but you can adjust volume.  Alternatively, if you program a button with the GVA command, then you can turn it off as well, but it doesn't know how to use B&O radio... so if there's a station that is only available on B&O Radio and not another google cast-able source, then you can't voice control it.