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Just got an invite for for a Beoplay A3 promotion in January. Will be 269€ but being in the global minority (according to new forum stats) I do not have an ifruit ! :-(
Yes my dealer is selling them for £225 today!!! Just shows have HUGELY overpriced the B&O range was - just like I said when I first heard the BS8 (now the A8) two years ago.
Cheap as chips. Just a shame it doesn't support the new charger. So really it's obsolete now and hasn't even been out 6 months I don't think
I never said this but the A3 is one of the only few B&O products that I have little interest in owning. First of all it is so fiddly! You must dock the whole ipad and fit it into the recess which will take a while and the speakers are kinda average so. The beolit 12 easily fulfills the role of a portable high performance speaker for an Ipad. The Beolit 12 also docks Idevices right?
I fel like the A3 wasn't a serious project to begin with. Huge waste of resources!
wonderfulelectric: I never said this but the A3 is one of the only few B&O products that I have little interest in owning. First of all it is so fiddly! You must dock the whole ipad and fit it into the recess which will take a while and the speakers are kinda average so. The beolit 12 easily fulfills the role of a portable high performance speaker for an Ipad. The Beolit 12 also docks Idevices right? I fel like the A3 wasn't a serious project to begin with. Huge waste of resources!
On the other hand we have our iPad constantly docked in it, it gives that extra battery life and is useable even when docked (if a little heavy).
It is fiddly, in that sometimes the speaker connection fails, and you have to pop and reset it.
But being able to do things like have a BBQ last night with it on the table outside playing as we ate was exactly why I got it, and will keep the ensemble until Apple do something bad
BeoNut since '75
The A3 will soon be discontinued.
If you have a spare iPad1 it could be a good opportunity to buy the A3 in the next couple of month.
Let the iPad stay docked and enjoy
Greetings Millemissen
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hmmm, makes sense they're showing up cheapish on eBay. With the new lightening connection making the poor A3 already redundant, I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for a discounted product
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Never impressed by it.
I can see the idea, but in real life everything isn't as great as it might be on paper.
B&O was late to the Apple game and it shows. They are probably busy to keep up.
ED, your use seems ideal, but I would much rather have the wireless Beolit 12 as my "barbecue speaker".
Too long to list....
Just had a look at the Beoplay website. Strange that it's nowhere (at least i couldn't find) mentioned which iPad's the A3 is compatible with?
Is it the iPad 1 and 2? If so, both are VERY obsolete.
I wonder how many "accidentally" order these only to find it's not compatible...?
I think the A3 concept is flawed to begin with. I feel like it is more like a design student's project than anything else. It just doesn't make any sense at all to have it in production in the first place. Come on I have already cycled through 3 ipads and am not sure whether I will get a 4th one but will most probably get it just like how I hesitated on getting replacement ipads in the past. I really do wish Apple comes out with a 128gb or perhaps a 1tb model in the future that will hold an entire library of my music that is capable of outputting even higher res files like 24bit/196khz files instead of the 24bit/96khz music files, and make high res Airplay compatible too! I hope Itunes will soon offer full res absolutely non-compressed files and perhaps high res downloads too. It will make my life so much easier! I still have to go out of my way to hunt for CDs and rip it in AIFF to get full res. Websites like qobuz only offers most of its downloads to French residents due to copyright laws. I mean really.... Do you think that if I am someone who is out to pirate your music I would be stopped by that little inconvenience?
wonderfulelectric: I think the A3 concept is flawed to begin with. I feel like it is more like a design student's project than anything else. It just doesn't make any sense at all to have it in production in the first place. Come on I have already cycled through 3 ipads and am not sure whether I will get a 4th one but will most probably get it just like how I hesitated on getting replacement ipads in the past.
I think the A3 concept is flawed to begin with. I feel like it is more like a design student's project than anything else. It just doesn't make any sense at all to have it in production in the first place. Come on I have already cycled through 3 ipads and am not sure whether I will get a 4th one but will most probably get it just like how I hesitated on getting replacement ipads in the past.
Very subjective answer to mark your own opinion as “suggest as answer”, don’t you think? :)
In the first place the A3 was not flawed. It fitted the iPad2 which was still sold at the time, and it fitted later the iPad3 too, which was released about the same time the A3 came out.
Just bad luck for B&O the lightning dock-connector was introduced a half year later, so not much future for the A3 I guess. But I do like the concept. Complementing an iPad (with internal inferior sound) with a genious docking-station.
I’m not like you, to buy a new iPad every year. Sure the retina display is nice, but not a reason to trash my iPad2. Not at all. The only thing that held me back from buying an A3 was its price. But now I’m tempted to pick one up.
bayerische:ED, your use seems ideal, but I would much rather have the wireless Beolit 12 as my "barbecue speaker".
For us the BBQs are mainly the two of us, or as last night with a son and his GF; so we don't have big parties where the Beolit 12 would really shine.
At one stage I did have some true B&O speakers behind a pair of french doors that we could open to fill the back garden with music, but our usage patterns have changed over time.
I have recently installed the airfoil software on the iPad in the A3, so it too can become a remote speaker (i.e. music is pushed to it and to other speakers).