My daughter is soon 6 and has a deep passion for music and dancing. She has the most impressive brain and can listen to a song only a couple of times yet remember all the words. She’s asked for a music box for her bedroom. I suppose the essential ingredients are: •alarm clock•streaming•radio (internet or DAB).•compact so no A9s - something she could take to uni/college years from now. I was considering an old Beoplay product but it requires a smart phone and I don’t want her to have uncensored access to the internet for safety reasons and I don’t want her playing computer games in her bedroom. Apple has a child safety mode, if I were to use an iPod connected to a music box. What are you suggestions/recommendations please?(P.S. I think she has been infected with the B&O virus 🤣)
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Music machine for a child?
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Hi STY,How will your daugther stream her music to the device? We had a similar dilemma and decided to go for a non B&O CD player + radio.My daugther is soon 8 and it won’t be long before own tablets and phones will come 🙁 and then also streaming devices.Good look with the ‘struggle’
What about an A1. Great sound from such a small device. Choice of colours. You could pair two in the future for stereo if the desire arose. It’s also pretty durable and splash resistant.
Hi STY,
How will your daugther stream her music to the device? We had a similar dilemma and decided to go for a non B&O CD player + radio.
My daugther is soon 8 and it won’t be long before own tablets and phones will come 🙁 and then also streaming devices.
Good look with the ‘struggle’
i will have Deezer or Tidal so she could stream that to a music machine in her bedroom over Wifi.
For control, what about an iPad mini put into kiosk mode with the B&O app? I wonder if you can lock kiosk mode with a PIN/password?
Kids sometimes don't handle things with care. So it is maybe not a bad idea not to spend to much for an audio device.
The Loewe Klang m1 is a great bluetooth speaker. It's affordable (around 100 €), it's robust and has a great sound.
I set up an A3 with an iPad2 for my daughter.She uses Amazon, Spotify and the Synology Music app.I locked out Safari so she can not access the web.An iPad2 does not support all apps, so this might be an issue, but it is quite robust and I got some A3s rather cheaply two years ago.So it is a flexible setup, with rather good sound and a big display.
This is where the Bose wave guide CD just fits a need. I am sure B&O could do something similar and it would sell. Went to a property the other day and all they wanted was a small Radio/CD player with a remote and great sound. Could not offer any B&O equivalents
I've said a few times that if the current portable range had regular FM/AM radio built in I'd be all over them but I don't want something that'll drain my phone and be a paperweight after 3-4 hours when I'm down to 40% and need to stop streaming because I need my phone that evening.
I have an A3 with an iPad 2 somewhere doing nothing. She can have it for free, as I’d rather one of us had it than some crappy eBay posting etcWhere you you live roughly? I’ll get my wife to dig it out of the garage in the mean time.🤒
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