Formation Setup | Bowers & Wilkins 1.5.1

Reviews

1 ★, on 2021-04-18
All Formation products are absolute garbage. It's nearly impossible to set any of these products up. Simply put, if you want a home wireless audio solution, go with SONOS. Bowers & Wilkins do not put time and effort into this side hustle of theirs. I've reached out to B&W on 5 separate occasions and no one gets back to me, buy SONOS. And if you want wired speakers, buy Revel.

1 ★, on 2021-02-17
Thank you for your response. The latest Feb 2021 update still does not solve the issues. The separated bass/treble settings are slow in responding. Worst case they are NOT responding at all and i have to restart the speakers every time. The apps is not stable and it takes time to connect to the speakers. If there's no further improvement, I will sell them and say bye to Bowers FOREVER. The lack of software features/stability is extremely disappointing. Good hardware but poor software, what for?

1 ★, on 2021-02-21
App was already bad, but somehow you were able to make it worse! Forced to create an account just to control volume. "Learn remote" works at times, but mostly not. Please stick to making hardware until you get someone who knows what they are doing with software! This is absolutely terrible.

1 ★, on 2021-02-17
New update does not give option to turn up volume speakers are connected and still will not pick up formation. Before they would connect as soon as app was opened very good sounding speaker not so much the app and have to get up every time to adjust volume very annoying I think they should have worked out bugs before putting out very disappointed!

5 ★, on 2021-02-12
Outstanding sound. I've been a B&W fan for years, through generations of Diamond speakers. With Formation I hoped to combine exceptional sound with modern wireless control. Across all speakers in the Formation line (Duo, Bar, Wedge, Flex, Bass) the design, build quality and sound are outstanding. Prior app/firmware releases were buggy and frustrating, but the latest (1.4 app, 2.0 firmware) resolved these issues. Thank you!

1 ★, on 2021-01-29
Very basic and slow app, it crashes very often and you need to "kill" it and reopen every time you want to do something. This is not what I expected when i bought my Formation Audio and my two Flex. I was also told from the seller that the upgrade would come very soon together with Alexa skill. I've been asked the support and no news about it. Hopefully the acquisition from Sound United will bring some fresh functionality to it...anyway, they should be quick if they don't want to lose all B&W customers.