Bang & Olufsen Beosound Level - Wireless Portable Wifi and Bluetooth Speaker (Up to 16 Hours Playtime), Cradle to Cradle Certified Sustainable Speaker - Natural Alu/Dark Grey

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Even when seated directly in front of it, I rarely sensed more than an occasional hint of channel separation. Not only are things like Spotify Connect, AirPlay and Chromecast built in, but it has an old-school 3.

Beosound Level review: A top-tier portable music streamer Beosound Level review: A top-tier portable music streamer

But you won't find anywhere near this level of service from them, and I'll be sure to keep Holburn in mind for the future. But if you want to activate the Google Voice Assistant to fetch content, or link other compatible wireless audio components to play in unified groups, you’ll need to link your Level to the Google Home app on your phone or tablet. Both these wireless protocols mean that the Beosound Level can work as a multi-room audio system so that speakers all around the home can be playing the same music or different music from each other. It’s not a major problem but it does jar with me slightly as this speaker looks so good laying there in its back like a Beocord cassette deck from the 1970s. Not for Bang and Olufsen, with the Danish audio company offering many more devices that dwarf this in terms of cost, but it’s still worth considering this as a premium speaker.

Meanwhile, Devendra Banhart’s surprising left turn to ambient music-ville, Refuge, sounded positively haunting in Hi-Res Audio form from Qobuz. The strip has a proximity sensor that illuminates as soon as a hand approaches and the various controls light up and become visible.

Bang and Olufsen Beosound Level review: a premium

A proximity sensor lights up the panel as you approach, which responds best with very light taps and swipes across the panel.While WiFi and Bluetooth are currently the most modern protocols for wireless music transmission, there will come a time when new technology replaces it.