Thanks!

Means, that you can't pair them wirelessly, if you feed the audio with a line-in cable.

I notice, that they speak of a connection to a BV or a BS using cables - great.

Might be worth considering for my guestroom-/office-V1, which has no external speakers yet.

MM

Dave Farr wrote:

Ina also said 'BL90? What BL90?' Yeah, right!

Dave.

You weren't really surpriced, were you ;-)

MM

Millemissen wrote:

Dave Farr wrote:

Ina also said 'BL90? What BL90?' Yeah, right!

Dave.

You weren't really surpriced, were you ;-)

MM

Not surprised in the least but it was said very 'tongue in cheek'!

Dave.

Dave, do you mind if I ask a clarifying question? These are hard wired, bluetooth off, and still disconnect? 

lupend88 wrote:

Dave, do you mind if I ask a clarifying question? These are hard wired, bluetooth off, and still disconnect? 

It's a bit difficult to clarify as they do different things!

I have never connected the two speakers together (daisychained) via a 3.5mm cable.  I will be trying that in the next day or two.  When I have connected my iPad or iPod to one speaker via the line-in 3.5mm cable, sometimes it has not played anything but mostly it does (when not in multi-speaker mode!) This was why I questioned B&O about it.  

If the 3.5mm line-in input jack is occupied - the Bluetooth function is automatically turned off so you can't use Bluetooth while they are hard wired. This is a major flaw in my view but should be easy to fix via an update I hope.

I hope that's clear.  As clear as mud in a way as I still think they have a mind of their own sometimes.  I'm going to give my speakers the same names as my daughters!

Dave.

Hi all🙂

After waiting 5 days to get my hands on the new investment, i was truly excited to get them playing. The excitement was also amplified by the fact that this is my first B&O product, after i have been in love with B&O for years. The settings were furthermore perfect: friday night, a beer in my hand and the girlfriend watching TV.

What i ordered was 4 S3's in white, 2 in black and a Sonos Connect. My current setup is a Sonos Play:5 and a Sonos Play:1.

After unpacking a white speaker, my girlfriend was completely sold by the design. She said that they were even better than on pictures. Please mind that my girlfriend is VERY critical when it comes to speakers (and many other things...). The look of the black one is just as good.

I hooked up to S3 to the Sonos Connect (which of course installed completely painless) via line-in, put a track on and - nothing. The speaker was not playing. I tried to look in the manual, which says nothing about the line-in. Well, what to do? Try the next one of course. This one started playing immediately - great. 

My plan was to compare the S3 to the Play:1, so i put on some tunes and switched between the two. The S3 really sounds great! It is impressive how much good sound can be put into this small cube. There is however one problem - the Play:1 really sounds great to! Ever since i got it, i have been impressed by the sound of it.🙂

It is very difficult to declare a winner between the two when it comes to sound. They do play very different. I think that the S3 is more clear and nuanced while the Play:1 plays more evenly across the spectre. My guess is that most hardcore listeners would prefer the S3 while most everyday listeners would prefer the relaxed sound. All-in-all they both sound great by them selves, and most people would love listening to either each day.

I then tried to connect another S3 in daisy-chain, excited to see if this would lift them to a whole new level. I put in the cable between the two and put them in multiple speaker mode and - nothing😂 I pushed some buttons, with no idea of the function, and at some point they started playing. I have no idea why. The sound was pretty much the same. Of course a bit of stereo-perspective but thats it. I can confirm that in order to separate left and right when using line in, you have to only feed the left speaker with the left channel and vice-versa.

To sum up:

S3

+ Very good sound, the size taken into account.

+ Very nice design.

+ Bluetooth connection seems to work well.

- Some background noise both for bluetooth and line-in connection.

- Not very good software. The behaviour seems inconsistent.

- Line-in connection does not seem to be a good option. Should be used for daisy-chain only

Play:1

+ Very good sound, the size taken into account.

+ Market leading software. Only Apple, Dropbox and a few others can make software this good.

To conclude, i would say that if you need a nice bluetooth speaker, take the S3. The wireless bluetooth setup seems to work very well in both mono and stereo, but the line-in (auto-sense) is not very good. If you would like a brilliant multiroom-setup, take the Play:1. I'm not done testing, but at this moment my feeling is that the S3's are going back. 

As i side note i am thinking that if B&O had implemented the multiroom capability into the S3, it would have been a killer product which could solely boost the turnaround significantly. Furthermore this would allow people to mix-and-match S3's for bathrooms, A9's for dining room, BL18's for living room etc. For many people it would have been the perfect way into a trap which would very quickly suck the money out of you. Instead they have made a so-so bluetooth speaker, where the design is the main argument to choose this over a discount model from the nearest market.

I hope the text is readable. I'm to tired to go back and proof-read it😕

AndersKjergaard wrote:

My plan was to compare the S3 to the Play:1, so i put on some tunes and switched between the two. The S3 really sounds great! It is impressive how much good sound can be put into this small cube. There is however one problem - the Play:1 really sounds great to! Ever since i got it, i have been impressed by the sound of it.

Thanks for this comparaison. I'm a bit disappointed as I was expecting S3's sound to be far better than the Play:1🙁. I hope that the A6 will be 'perfect' with no software or bluetooth issues...