There is a moment, just after you press play, when a great wireless speaker disappears. The cabinet, the grille, the technology: all of it recedes, and what remains is simply the music, filling the room as though it had always been there. That is the experience Bang & Olufsen has refined for almost a century, and it is the experience we help our clients find every day at the three Brussee showrooms.
Choosing the best wireless speaker for your home in 2026 is less about chasing a spec sheet and more about understanding how you live: where you listen, how a speaker should sit within your interior, and whether you want sound that travels with you or sound that becomes a permanent part of a room. This guide walks you through that decision, from compact bluetooth speaker to architectural centrepiece, with the full B&O range as your palette.
Table of contents
- Portable or fixed: where will you listen?
- Wi-Fi or Bluetooth: how the music reaches the speaker
- The B&O wireless speaker range at a glance
- Choosing by room size
- Choosing by budget
- Multiroom: one system, every space
- Design and materials: the part you live with
- Why buy your wireless speaker at Brussee
- Frequently asked questions
Portable or fixed: where will you listen?
The first question is the simplest, and the most revealing. A portable wireless speaker follows your day: from the kitchen counter to the terrace, to the garden, to a weekend away. A fixed speaker, by contrast, is chosen for a place. It earns its position in a room and rarely leaves it, rewarding you with greater scale and presence in return.
For a speaker that travels, the Beosound Explore is built for exactly that life. Compact and rugged, with a 27-hour battery, it is designed for portable and outdoor use without ever feeling like a compromise on craftsmanship. The Beosound A1 (3rd generation) offers a similarly mobile companion in a refined, pocketable form, with an 18-hour battery and the reassurance of being Cradle to Cradle Certified at Bronze level.
When portability meets serious performance, the Beosound A5 is the most powerful portable B&O has made: a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth speaker with a 12-hour battery, equally at home on the bookshelf or carried out to the garden. The Beosound Level sits in the same conversation, a portable Wi-Fi speaker with a 16-hour battery and an optional wall mount, so it can move with you or settle quietly onto a wall.
For listeners who want a fixed point of beauty and sound, the conversation turns to speakers like the Beosound Emerge, Beosound Balance, Beosound 2 and Beosound A9, each designed to belong to a room rather than to a bag.
Wi-Fi or Bluetooth: how the music reaches the speaker
How the music travels to your speaker matters more than it might first appear. A bluetooth speaker connects directly to your phone or tablet, which makes it wonderfully immediate and ideal when you are away from home or outdoors. The Beosound Explore and Beosound A1 are built around this directness.
A Wi-Fi speaker connects to your home network instead. This brings higher quality streaming, more stable playback across a larger home, and, crucially, the ability to link speakers together into a single system. The Beosound A5 and Beosound Level offer both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, giving you the freedom of either world, while the Beosound Emerge, Beosound Balance, Beosound 2 and Beosound A9 are designed as Wi-Fi speakers at the centre of the home.
Our guidance is straightforward: if you listen mostly outdoors or on the move, Bluetooth is your friend. If you want room-filling sound, multiroom playback and the best streaming quality at home, choose a Wi-Fi speaker, or one that offers both.
The B&O wireless speaker range at a glance
The table below gives you the whole range in a single view, so you can see at once where each speaker sits between portable and fixed, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
| Speaker | Price from | Portable | Wi-Fi / Bluetooth | Battery | Ideal room |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beosound Explore | EUR 249 | Yes | Bluetooth | 27 hours | Outdoor, terrace, on the move |
| Beosound A1 (3rd gen) | EUR 349 | Yes | Bluetooth | 18 hours | Kitchen, desk, travel |
| Beosound A5 | EUR 1,400 | Yes | Wi-Fi + Bluetooth | 12 hours | Living room, garden, study |
| Beosound Level | EUR 1,500 | Yes | Wi-Fi | 16 hours | Living room, wall-mounted spaces |
| Beosound Emerge | EUR 1,000 | No | Wi-Fi | Mains powered | Bookshelf, study, bedroom |
| Beosound Balance | EUR 3,000 | No | Wi-Fi | Mains powered | Living room, hallway as design object |
| Beosound 2 | EUR 3,300 | No | Wi-Fi | Mains powered | Open-plan, large living spaces |
| Beosound A9 | EUR 3,700 | No | Wi-Fi | Mains powered | Living room centrepiece, wall |
The Beosound A5 appears in bold above, as its product page is currently being refreshed. Our showroom team will gladly demonstrate it in person.
Choosing by room size
A speaker that sounds glorious in a study can feel modest in a double-height living room, and a speaker built for scale can overwhelm a quiet bedroom. Matching the speaker to the space is where the experience is won.
| Room | Character | Our recommendation |
|---|---|---|
| Bedroom or study | Intimate, close listening | Beosound A1 (3rd gen), Beosound Emerge |
| Kitchen or terrace | Casual, often outdoors | Beosound Explore, Beosound A1 (3rd gen) |
| Living room (medium) | The heart of the home | Beosound Level, Beosound A5, Beosound Balance |
| Living room (large or open-plan) | Scale and presence | Beosound 2, Beosound A9 |
For larger, open-plan interiors, the Beosound 2 deserves particular attention. Its conical form delivers 360-degree sound through Acoustic Lens Technology, dispersing music evenly so there is no single sweet spot: the room itself becomes the listening position. The Beosound A9, with its iconic circular design, brings a comparable sense of occasion, wall-mountable and customisable in legs and colours so it suits the architecture as much as the acoustics.
Choosing by budget
Excellent wireless sound begins more accessibly than many expect, and rises to the level of furniture and sculpture. Wherever you sit on this range, the same design philosophy and material care apply.
| Budget | Speaker | What you gain |
|---|---|---|
| From EUR 249 | Beosound Explore | Rugged, portable, 27-hour battery for life outdoors |
| From EUR 349 | Beosound A1 (3rd gen) | Refined compact portable, 18-hour battery, sustainably certified |
| From EUR 1,000 | Beosound Emerge | Slender Wi-Fi bookshelf speaker for the home |
| From EUR 1,400 | Beosound A5 | The most powerful portable, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combined |
| From EUR 1,500 | Beosound Level | Portable Wi-Fi speaker with optional wall mount |
| From EUR 3,000 | Beosound Balance | A Wi-Fi speaker conceived as a design object |
| From EUR 3,300 | Beosound 2 | 360-degree sound for large, open spaces |
| From EUR 3,700 | Beosound A9 | An iconic, fully customisable centrepiece |
Prices shown are starting points; several models rise with finish and configuration. The Beosound Explore reaches up to EUR 429, the Beosound A5 up to EUR 2,400, the Beosound Level up to EUR 1,800, the Beosound Balance up to EUR 3,500, the Beosound 2 up to EUR 5,000 and the Beosound A9 up to EUR 4,500, depending on the materials and options you choose.
Multiroom: one system, every space
One of the quiet pleasures of choosing Wi-Fi speakers is that they need never work alone. Every B&O Wi-Fi speaker can be linked into a single multiroom system through Beolink, so the same music can follow you from kitchen to living room to terrace, or each room can play something entirely its own.
If you already own older Bang & Olufsen equipment, it need not be left behind. The BeoConnect Core brings earlier B&O speakers into the same connected ecosystem, allowing decades of craftsmanship to play together as one. You can explore the full multiroom range to see how a system might grow with your home.
Design and materials: the part you live with
A wireless speaker is, after all, something you see every day, long before and long after you press play. This is where Danish design heritage becomes more than a phrase. Across the range you will find carefully selected materials and a restraint that lets each piece settle naturally into any interior.
The Beosound A9 makes its circular silhouette the focal point of a room, with replaceable legs and a choice of colours so the form stays timeless while the styling remains yours. The Beosound Balance is conceived first as an object of interior design and only then as a speaker, while the Beosound 2 turns its conical housing into a quiet sculpture. Even the most portable pieces, the Beosound Explore and Beosound A1, carry the same conviction that a speaker should sound as good as it looks.
Why buy your wireless speaker at Brussee
Specifications can be read anywhere. The right choice is made by listening, and by talking it through with someone who knows the range intimately. As an official Bang & Olufsen dealer since 1995, Brussee offers exactly that: personal advice, an unhurried listening session, and professional installation that leaves nothing for you to configure.
You are warmly invited to browse the full wireless speaker collection or the complete speaker range online, and then to experience your shortlist in person at one of our showrooms.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a Wi-Fi speaker and a Bluetooth speaker?
A Bluetooth speaker connects directly to your phone or tablet, making it ideal outdoors and on the move. A Wi-Fi speaker connects to your home network instead, offering more stable, higher quality streaming across a larger home and the ability to link several speakers into one multiroom system for synchronised playback.
Which B&O speaker has the longest battery life?
Among the portable Bang & Olufsen speakers, the Beosound Explore offers the longest battery at 27 hours, making it especially suited to long days outdoors. The Beosound A1 provides 18 hours, the Beosound Level 16 hours, and the Beosound A5, the most powerful portable, delivers 12 hours of wireless playback.
Can I connect multiple B&O speakers together?
Yes. Every Bang & Olufsen Wi-Fi speaker can be linked into a single system through Beolink, so the same music plays across rooms in perfect sync, or each room plays independently. Older B&O speakers can join the same connected ecosystem using BeoConnect Core, allowing your existing equipment to play alongside newer models.
Which wireless speaker is best for a large living room?
For larger, open-plan spaces, the Beosound 2 is an excellent choice: its conical form delivers 360-degree sound through Acoustic Lens Technology, filling the room evenly. The Beosound A9, with its iconic circular design and wall-mounting option, offers comparable scale and presence as a striking living-room centrepiece.
Are B&O wireless speakers worth the investment?
A Bang & Olufsen speaker is chosen for both sound and design, crafted from carefully selected materials to sit naturally in your interior for years. The range begins from EUR 249 with the Beosound Explore, so there is an entry point for most homes, while higher models offer greater scale, finer finishes and the presence of a true design object.
Find your wireless speaker at a Brussee showroom
The surest way to choose is to listen. Visit us for personal advice and a demonstration at one of our three showrooms: Haarlem (Grote Houtstraat 7), Amsterdam (P.C. Hooftstraat 73) or Katwijk (Voorstraat 35).
Prefer to plan a tailored system, or have a specific configuration in mind? Request a quote and our specialists will be delighted to help.
