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Buying guide
Choosing your portable home speaker
Five speakers, five personalities. Here is the honest matchmaking — no winner, just yours.
| Speaker | Best at | Battery | Water | The one line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beosound A5 | Patio dinners | 12 hrs | IP65 | The picnic, upgraded. |
| Beosound A1 · 3rd Gen | Everywhere | 24 hrs | IP67 | Small. Mighty. Waterproof. |
| Beosound Explore | The trailhead | 27 hrs | IP67 | Carabiner included, excuses not. |
| Beolit 20 | The party | 8 hrs loud | Splash | Charges your phone while it plays. |
| Beosound Level | Room to room | 16 hrs | IP54 | Lean it, hang it, love it. |
Pick by scenario, not spec
Hosting more than hiking? The A5's handle was made for the ten steps between kitchen and patio. Living out of a carry-on? The A1 disappears into a jacket pocket and shrugs off pool splashes. And if the same speaker needs to soundtrack Tuesday dinner and Saturday's twenty guests — that is the Beolit is whole personality.
Rule of thumb: buy for the loudest hour of your week, not the quietest.
Or skip the homework
All five live charged on our shelf. Bring your playlist, give us ten minutes, and walk out with the right one — wrapped, if it is a gift.