Beosound A5 Your picnic pal

‘Around the home’ and even further afield, Bang & Olufsen’s Beosound A5 aims for all-round wireless speaker performance — with benefits.

SUMMARY Bang & Olufsen Beosound A5 Price: $2200 / $2550 / $2950 + Powerful, detailed sound + Comprehensive companion app + An absolute design stunner – Too heavy to be truly portable – Compromised water rating If you want a wireless Bluetooth speaker that goes loud, offers a raft of genuinely useful features, and masquerades as a 29cm-wide picnic basket… then the Bang & Olufsen Beosound A5 may be for you. With the usual B&O caveat that it’s not cheap. The Nordic Weave variation (pictured) with its natural aluminium, woven paper-fibre front and light oak handle is currently $2200. The Dark Oak version is $2550, and a new ‘Spaced Aluminium’ raises the price to $2950, for what is, after all, a portable wireless speaker. But sonically it more than proved…

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