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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 first “cheap” B&O Play speaker

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…

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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/11/9/16628380/bo-plays-m3-speaker-airplay-chromecast-bluetooth-cheaper-bang-olufsen