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BeoSound 2

wireless speaker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ28195062 ↗
Source-derived summary

The BeoSound 2 is a wireless speaker supplied by Bang & Olufsen. Wireless streaming options include Google Cast, Bluetooth, AirPlay and DLNA and B&O Multiroom. The device’s shell is aluminum.

Beosound 2 MP3 Player

Beosound 2 MP3 Player was a portable device from the early third millennium. It played MP3- and WMA-format audio stored on Secure Digital or MMC media of up to 2 GB. It was built of stainless steel.

BeoSound 2 was designed by the British designer David Lewis and appeared on the market in May 2002. The A8 Earphones came as standard accessories to use with BeoSound 2.

References

"Bang and Olufsen's new BeoSound speakers project music 360 degrees". Engadget.com. 2016-08-31.

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The public source identifies “BeoSound 2” as wireless speaker. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around BeoSound, wireless and speaker.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with BeoSound, wireless and speaker providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “BeoSound 2” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.