{"id":150765,"date":"2022-11-07T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=150765"},"modified":"2022-11-07T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T08:32:31","slug":"yamaha-launches-ws-b1a-compact-and-wireless-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/speakers\/yamaha-launches-ws-b1a-compact-and-wireless-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamaha launches WS-B1A: Compact and wireless speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, the Japanese company\u00a0<b>Yamaha<\/b>\u00a0has been promoting its own standard for wireless distributed audio systems\u00a0<i>MusicCast<\/i>\u00a0, offering for them, in particular, stationary monoblock audio systems with Wi-Fi.\u00a0And now the company has finally paid attention to portable wireless speakers to work with smartphones and tablets.\u00a0This autumn, at\u00a0<i>IFA 2022<\/i>\u00a0in Berlin, Yamaha introduced the first model of its kind in its range, which received the\u00a0<b>WS-B1A<\/b>\u00a0index .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/98_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The compact speaker WS-B1A is not afraid of moisture and dust (certified according to the IP67 standard and supports Bluetooth version 5.0. All side walls of the novelty are covered with acoustically transparent fabric, and the top panel with touch keys for operating modes control is matte. The battery provides up to 12 hours of battery life speaker and has a USB-C port for charging.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/99_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Yamaha WS-B1A audio system is equipped with a 5.5 cm full-range speaker, complemented by two passive radiators that increase low-frequency response.\u00a0The emitter is driven by a 10 watt amplifier.\u00a0Sound expressiveness is provided by proprietary sound processing systems\u00a0<i>TrueSound<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>ClearVoice<\/i>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/100_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Portable wireless speaker\u00a0<b>Yamaha WS-B1A<\/b>\u00a0is already on sale in Europe at a price of\u00a0<b>130 euros<\/b> . The speaker is offered in three different colors: <i>charcoal gray, light gray or black<\/i>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, the Japanese company\u00a0Yamaha\u00a0has been promoting its own standard for wireless distributed audio systems\u00a0MusicCast\u00a0, offering for them, in particular, stationary monoblock audio systems with Wi-Fi.\u00a0And now the company has finally paid attention to portable wireless speakers to work with smartphones and tablets.\u00a0This autumn, at\u00a0IFA 2022\u00a0in Berlin, Yamaha introduced the first model of its [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/speakers\/yamaha-launches-ws-b1a-compact-and-wireless-speaker\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":150766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-150765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-speakers","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}