I mainly use it to stream from iTunes, but you can also stream from Spotify and other services.

After weeks of use, it has been very reliable as an AirPlay receiver on my network. I have never had any problems with Wi-Fi streaming audio, and I never experienced any blips in the sound or networking problems. It delivers reasonably good bass, and keeps the sound quality and high audio levels – there is not a lot of distortion. The speaker array consists of a subwoofer along with mid and high-range speakers: there are 5 speakers located in this unit. The sound quality on the Beoplay A9 is pretty good. However, I think it’s worth it if you want to up-your-game in sound quality for your streaming music. Now just to be clear, this unit is expensive. My plan is to offset the cost of the B&O by selling my equipment used. This background is important, here… I had found myself hooking up an Airport Express to all this fancy high-end audio equipment just to stream from iTunes, so I figured, ok, time to optimize. The Beoplay A9 would be perfect for people who want good sound quality to fill a larger room or space, but always want form along with the function. This unit replaced all of those things in a nice clean package. I am one of these people that does indeed appreciate good sound quality and had quite a few expensive audio components hooked-up in the living room: amplifiers, speakers, preamplifier, and CD-player. So what is it and what does it do? Basically, it is a self enclosed speaker array system, amplifiers, sound preprocessing unit and network node all in one. The Bang and Olufsen (B&O) Beoplay A9 is an self enclosed streaming music hi-fi system that crosses that line between art and electronics.

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