B&O Play’s new $300 speaker is almost cheap enough for normal people
B&O Play is meant to be the more affordable sub-brand of Bang & Olufsen (its more extravagant speakers tend to run in the five-figure price range), but even the company’s “cheaper” consumer offerings like the $599 Beoplay M5 are still pretty expensive.
The newly released $299 M3 is B&O Play’s cheapest speaker yet, and it might be the answer for someone looking to start out on the premium audio company’s products without breaking the bank.
The M3 is smaller than the M5, and offers less in the way of sound from a pure hardware perspective: it has just a 3.75-inch woofer and a single 0.75-inch tweeter, instead of a 5-inch woofer, 1.5-inch midrange, and three 0.75-inch tweeters. The M3 also doesn’t have…
