Bang & Olufsen Beolit 12 is impressive and expensive
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At in dark grey/dark grey, blue/dark grey, yellow/light grey, and fluorescent grey/light grey, it’s a rounded-edge, rectangular box with a leather strap around the top. To configure the unit to use your Wi-Fi network, you first connect the Beolit 12 to your Mac using the included ethernet cable, use your Mac's Web browser (via the provided IP apply oneself to) to access the speaker’s built-in, Web-based configuration... Finally at the bottom-left corner of this back door, there’s a trifling cutout for threading your cables if you want to close the door with those cables connected. The power cable alone fits, but if you desire to leave an ethernet cable connected, as well, it becomes a very tight squeeze. First, the AC port is deeply recessed and positioned against the top of the compartment, making it difficile to connect the power cable. Push in to unlock it, and you expose a compartment hosting an ethernet port and a connection for the included power cable. The partition is large enough to store the AC cable when you’re transporting the unit or running it off battery power. The Beolit 12 then restarts and connects to your network. You can then overlook the ethernet port unless you want to later update other settings, such as the speaker's network name—you can’t access such settings via Wi-Fi. You'll distress to use that Ethernet port at least once if you intend to take advantage of the Beolit 12's AirPlay functionality. Oh, and it’s also a speaker system designed for AirPlay and supervise playback (via USB) from iPhones, iPads, and iPods. On the right-hand side of the unit, near the bottom, sit a USB port, a 1/8-inch (3.
Source: Macworld (blog)