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Far from a one-source wonder, the A6 will stream pretty much anything from almost anywhere and in any way you like – whether it’s music from your iPhone over AirPlay, tablet via Bluetooth, your NAS drive over DLNA, or from the catalogues of built-in streaming services such as Deezer and Spotify.

If you’re more of a radio listener, there are thousands of internet stations at your fingertips via TuneIn too.

All popular file formats (MP3, AAC, WMA, ALAC, FLAC, WAV) are supported, up to the high-resolution 24bit/192kHz too.

With multi-room up its sleeve, it can also pair with another A6

If you’ve seen the discus-shaped A9, you might expect its little sibling to follow form as a miniature version. But B&O throws a curveball. If the Iron Giant had a boomerang, it may look something like the A6.

Sticking with the Scandinavian-orientated minimalist edge in the design department, it’s gently curved to a slightly pointier middle and slim enough to carry comfortably under your arm.

The distinctive shape is key to the angling of the five drivers: two 14cm woofers (driven by two 60W amps) and a pair of 20mm tweeters (driven by two 30W amps) firing front-ways, as well as a 38mm full-range driver (at the hands of 60W amplification) firing backwards – designed to bounce sound off the back wall for a greater sense of spaciousness.

That’s why the white back panel is perforated: to let sound out.

You can’t see the drivers though, because B&O has pulled wool over our eyes, quite literally. B&O has teamed with design Danish textiles manufacturer Kvadrat to produce what can only be described as a fuzzy wool-like front, claiming that the delicate weaving pattern of the multi-coloured threads not only produces a look of luxury, but acoustic transparency too.

With a range of colours thoughtfully designed to match your living room, including light grey (pictured), dusty blue, dark rose and dark grey, the neat seam-like decoration across the front makes it look all the more homely.

As with the A9, the A6 features discreet tap and swipe controls on top. Brush your finger along to change volume, and tap the middle to switch it between playback and standby mode, the right to change input, and left to turn it on or off.

Hats off to B&O for creating such a neat and well-integrated control system, although we sometimes find ourselves pressing things twice, and having to tap quite precisely too.

In an ideal world, no one puts the BeoPlay in the corner. But if needs must, there’s settings – ‘Free’, ‘Wall’ and ‘Corner’ – to optimise performance based on placement in a room, activated by a simple flick switch underneath the unit.

he last thing you might expect from a product this slender is deep, rumbling bass, but B&O surprises us again. When the beat drops in Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ Downtown (streamed over Bluetooth), it’s not only deep-rooted but defined and textured too – more so than through the Mu-so, in fact.

Move up to midrange and this is where the A6 excels. Hurling Macklemore’s vocals into the spotlight with clarity and focus, it rolls with the eccentric rap’s tempo changes and sweeping dynamic dexterity.

It captures his charismatic spin, and the smooth, melodic vocals that make up the chorus’ catchy hook.

With highs (in this case, bells) clear and refined, the BeoPlay serves up a fine tonal balance that values clarity and crispness, although is just nipped for solidity by the Naim.

Note!: sometimes in standby modus the player gives a distortion noise. That is only in standby and not while playing music.


Excellent - Number of items: 2 - Including: Active Speaker set - Power cord

Bang & Olufsen - BeoPlay A6 Active Speaker set

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