Bang & Olufsen today announced the new Beosound A5 Spaced Aluminium. Honoring Bang & Olufsen’s heritage in aluminium excellence design and craftmanship, the grille of Beosound A5 Spaced Aluminium is crafted and finished by hand at Factory 5 in Struer, Denmark.
The grille of Beosound A5 Spaced Aluminium is a delicately crafted design that champions Bang & Olufsen’s approach to pushing boundaries within aluminium exploration. It is made from more than 3500 aluminium discs which give the illusion of floating at the front of the speaker.
Vice President of Product Marketing, Michael Henriksson, explains, “We have worked with different circular patterns across our speaker grille designs for many years. It has become a signature, but this is a brand-new style”.
He continues, “Usually, the circular shape is the hole in which sound flows through a speaker grille, whereas here we flipped the idea on its head and made the circular shape the central attraction and the sound flows out around it, effectively inverting our past design to create something different and striking.”
“The look of the “floating discs” is created using a second layer of aluminium, carefully designed in a grid behind the surface to create the optical illusion and let the sound flow through”.
