Beoplay A9 MKV

Hi Beoworlders,

Do you have any news on A9 MKV? The A9 was updated more less every 2 years, the current generation should be in 2021 in it’s second year of production. Theoretically it should be the time for an update .

I can’t wait what 2021 bringst to us. It started already with Level and I’m sure B&O has still a lot of great new products waiting for us.

Thank you all for your feedbacks,

Pavel

Aresus:

Do you have any news on A9 MKV? The A9 was updated more less every 2 years, the current generation should be in 2021 in it’s second year of production. Theoretically it should be the time for an update .

No news on any updates that I know of and we've also seen what's in the short-to-medium term production.

I don't see B&O spending too much more time on larger expensive wireless speakers now they have the A9 and Edge in the range. I don't think they sell many Edge, either. Just received a promotional price discount and I rarely play mine. The audio is weird. Much prefer my BeoSound 2 or Balance.

Far more demand for something like the Level at £1000.

I would not necessarily assume there is another version coming any time soon.  Generally speaking, B&O doesn't move very fast, and I'd say the 2 year cadence for new versions of the A9 is more the exception than the rule.  Then again, I don't know anything... just a long time customer.

For me it's logical that a MKV will come, but without any difference regarding sound, just to update its audioplatform to the new Mozart platform (found in the Balance & Level), but as the NL will only come to this platform at the end of the year, I do not see a A9 MKV until 2022.

Concerning the Edge, it's in constant discount here, and there's no way I would "upgrade" my A9 to an Edge. The A9 looks like an Anish Kapoor sculpture on the wall where the Edge is just a big cylinder...

That’s a good remark. I think that the A9 earned design icon batch already. So I do not think that B&O would discontinue this product or radically change the design, this is always to risky for a producer. I would welcome the Mozart platform with NL in the A9, but we have to probably wait a while, as the Level just rolled out. If Level will get the NL in Q3-Q4/2021. The A9 could be in waiting line waiting for the next release.....probably/hopefully with Balance too...

mbee:

Concerning the Edge, it's in constant discount here, and there's no way I would "upgrade" my A9 to an Edge. The A9 looks like an Anish Kapoor sculpture on the wall where the Edge is just a big cylinder...

Oddly, having owned an A9 and now an Edge, I prefer the Edge for design. A9 took *way* too much space. And most people did think it looked like a dart board.

Each to our own I guess!

Would also be keen to have an update of speakers with mozart & nl.

Does anyone know what’s better / different about the mozart platform? So far, it seems identical, but without nl. Anything to come?

moxxey:

Oddly, having owned an A9 and now an Edge, I prefer the Edge for design. A9 took *way* too much space. And most people did think it looked like a dart board.

The difference of views between you and me is that you put your speaker on the floor (where I can see the advantages of an Edge vs an A9, but the "juste a cylinder" design is a bit too simple), and I put my speaker on the wall (where the Edge is a joke with its B&O wall bracket perpendicular to the wall, and too heavy looking with a STB bracket aligned to the wall, with the loss of 50% of its speakers in this position)