Bang & Olufsen hits the excessive finish with its new luxurious earbuds

Bang & Olufsen takes a leap into the super-premium market with its latest flagship earbuds. At a value level that makes Apple’s AirPods Professional 3 appear like a finances possibility, the Beo Grace earbuds promise class-leading audio high quality matched with meticulous engineering and ending.

These aren’t your typical mass-produced earbuds. Every Beo Grace is produced from polished aluminium, as is the charging case. The corporate describes the earbuds as ‘a examine in wearable sculpture’, and whereas we wouldn’t go fairly that far, they’ve a polish and a presence that you simply received’t discover in low-end gadgets, not to mention in a typical branded pair.

Luxurious doesn’t simply imply the value level, it additionally means efficiency and sturdiness. Within the case of Beo Grace, the pearl-blasted aluminium finishes are paired with an acoustically superior 12mm titanium driver. B&O’s personal EarSense noise cancelling is now 4 occasions simpler than earlier iterations and the corporate has additionally included Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos into the earbuds.

Battery life has been considerably improved. B&O has teamed up with Breathe, a UK-based start-up devoted to bettering battery efficiency via higher monitoring and adaptive charging. This deal with ‘battery intelligence’ tailors power use to every particular person cell, bettering each life and cost velocity. For Beo Grace, the inclusion of a custom-designed battery administration system has seen outcomes of greater than 2,000 cost cycles, greater than 4 occasions the anticipated baseline.

As with all premium earbuds, the Beo Grace additionally provides gesture management, with the power for customers to regulate the quantity by tapping simply in entrance of the ear. Play controls require extra drive, with a contact and accompanying click on to pause, play and skip forwards and backwards, in addition to swap between the noise cancellation and transparency modes. The latter makes use of the six high-precision microphones inside the earbuds to create a hanging, hiss-free soundscape that is supposed to cast off the sensation of sporting earbuds altogether.

The totally charged Beo Grace earbuds ought to ship 4.5 hours of listening, with the case including an additional 12.5 hours. For one more layer of tactile luxurious, B&O provides a bespoke leather-based pouch for the cost case, accessible in Infinite Black, Cranberry Crimson and Seashell Gray.

Bang & Olufsen Beo Grace, £1,000 / €1,200 / $1,500, leather-based cost case pouch, £250, Bang-Olufsen.com, @BangOlufsen