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Beosound Core

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The heart of your music

The essential connectivity hub that turns your Beolab speakers into a future-proof and wireless speaker system.

With Beosound Core, nothing stands between your music and your beloved speakers. Stream directly from your favourite music apps on your phone via Chromecast built-in, Apple AirPlay or Bluetooth. Or play your own digital music collection via DLNA.

Uncompromising sound quality

Only the very best for your Beolab speakers. Beosound Core renders music in ultra high resolution to deliver the highest digital streaming quality we have ever offered.

All the connections you need

Beosound Core is the intelligent connectivity hub for your all your wired and wireless devices and speakers. Optical-in and optical-out interfaces provide end-to-end digital sound. We also included analogue interfaces for your older equipment.

Extend the life of your speakers

In a time of fast-changing technologies, the Beosound Core safeguards your precious Beolab speakers or Beosound Shape through automatic software updates, keeping them up-to-date for many years to come.

Get the full Multiroom experience

Beosound Core adds Multiroom functionality to Beosound Shape or your Beolab speakers, allowing you to wirelessly connect multiple speakers throughout your home into one seamless audio system.

 

DIMENSION & WEIGHT

Base diameter 151.8 mm Height: 44.2 mm Weight: 290 g

USB-C power supply

Weight: 145 g

 

MATERIAL

LightWeight composite casing in matt black

 

WIRELESS NETWORK

Wi-Fi/WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 GHz & 5 GHz) and Bluetooth 4.1

 

STREAMING TECHNOLOGIES

Chromecast built-in*

Apple AirPlay

Bluetooth Audio Streaming

DLNA – DMR

Spotify Connect

QPlay 2.0 (China specific)

* Chromecast built-in is a trademark of Google Inc

INTEGRATED MUSIC SERVICES
Spotify*
Deezer*
TuneIn Internet radio*
QQ Music (China specific)
*market dependent
CONNECTIONS
1 x USB-C (for power via external power supply)
1 x Power Link socket (RJ45) with two channels
1 x Line-in (analogue & digital combo) with sensing
1 x Ethernet 10/100 Mbit/s
1 x Toslink digital sound out
1 x USB (for Connection to the BeoSound Shape)
SUPPORTED AUDIO FORMATS
MP3, WMA, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF
Standard sample rates up to 192 kHz, stereo and up to 24 bit
Note:WMA lossless is not supported

RENDERING
End-to-end rendering path on the optical interface: 96kHz/24bit
REMOTE CONTROLS
BeoSound Core can be paired wirelessly (Bluetooth Low Energy) with the Essence Remote.
BeoSound Core and the Essence Remote will generally be fully operational when located in a square room of up to 9x9 meters