Bang & Olufsen Beosound A5 - Modular Portable Bluetooth and Wireless Speaker, Bluetooth Speaker Loud Sound for Home and Outdoors with Long-Lasting Battery and Wireless Charging Pad - Dark Oak

I’ve been using the B&O Beosound A5 for a few weeks now, and it’s easily one of the best speakers I’ve ever owned. The sound quality is incredibly rich, detailed, and with a strong, deep bass that doesn’t overwhelm. Even at high volume, everything stays clear and balanced. It fills the room effortlessly and sounds great from any angle. The build quality is premium, as you’d expect from Bang & Olufsen. It looks stunning in person – minimalist, elegant, and solid. The handle makes it easy to move around, and I’ve used it both indoors and outside without any issues. Battery life is solid, and the wireless charging pad on top is a nice bonus. I love the picnic basket design, I got the dark oak colour. I also love that it comes with smart features like AirPlay 2, Chromecast, and Bluetooth. The app is easy to use and lets you tweak the sound just the way you like it. It even has memory for different sound presets, which is a great touch. If I had to nitpick, there were a couple of times early on where the Bluetooth connection took a moment to sync, but it’s been stable since. Also, it’s definitely a premium-priced speaker, but once you hear it and see how it’s built, it feels worth it. Overall, if you’re looking for a portable speaker that sounds amazing and looks beautiful in any space, the Beosound A5 is a fantastic choice.

I've now had this for a few weeks. Fantastic upgrade over my beolit 15. Very good battery life (particularly when listening at regular volumes). Great B&O sound - particularly when listening to hi res Tidal over wifi. USB-C charging is great. When paired with an external battery - can have it cranking outside for hours and hours at high volume. Great for parties. I like the direct access to buttons to play/stop & shortcuts to radio stations. Haven't had any issues with wifi connectivity. It's been working without issue. I've been primarily using tidal connect (with the tidal integration to the B&O app - decided to give tidal a go). When I switch back to spotify connect - I can really hear the difference in sound quality (will likely be dropping spotify now). Heck- I don't even like listening to my bluetooth headphones any more - the sound quality of hi res on the A5 is so much better!

It is sold as a premium/luxury product but provides a shoddy experience. 1. Major connectivity issues with airplay. Doesn’t collect half the time. My Bose soundbar performs way better at the same price. 2. Major issues switching between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Unit has to be rebooted every time. 3. Unresponsive support on the B&O app 4. App Apparently requires Internet 5. Room compensation only works on AC power. Why B&O? are you going to provide free replacement batteries in the future? 6. horrible app experience.eg: No way pause music once a favourite channel is played from the app. That being said the sound quality is awesome. Brilliant bass performance.

The sound and quality are incredible

It looks lovely and sounds decent but it's software is a joke. I'm using android and it is filled with bugs. I've had the volume set to max and it wouldn't let me change it without doint a full factory reset several times. I've had the audio just not coming out at all until I've done a full factory reset. I'm honestly doing a rest once a week. And now it just won't connect to Bluetooth at all. Even a factory reset won't fix it. I've had it for a few months now so I'm hoping I can get a refund or something. It's honestly unusable bad.

Lovely speaker sound is the best I have heard from a portable speaker. Built quality tops. Heavy in weight and high or low volume it delivers audiophile quality listening to classical or contemporary stuff. A bit pricey but if you like great sound it’s worth the investment.

Bought the B&O level love it but now I have the B&O 5 too tier

Not only excellent sound quality but very, very good build quality. A big advantage is its wide range of connectivity, for example directly with Apple TV without any compression in transmission such as happens with blue tooth, which nevertheless is available.