Even with 1GB service here via Comcast, it’s a healthy battle for bandwidth with multiple people using computers, tablets, iPhones, and multiple streaming devices for listening to music and watching TV and movies. With AirPlay 2 on Bluesound 2i, you can connect multiple Players around the house and have them communicate with each other through AirPlay. Listen to your music in perfect sync as you walk room-to-room, or play different songs in different rooms, and control everything from the Control Centre on your iOS device. You can even say the song you want to listen to and where and let Siri take control of your music experience.

Bluesound has been developed by Lenbrook, a small electronics distribution firm, as it is a whole-home audio product targeted at audio enthusiasts who want the model of Sonos, but then again who wants a quality of sound. In an atmosphere that provides the highest listening content possible, Bluesound blends music and technological powers very well. This is a maintenance release of BluOS 4.0.2 , ONLY for Bluesound VAULT(Gen1), VAULT 2, VAULT 2i, NAD M50 / M50.2. Class D amplifiers generate a rail to rail digital output signal using pulse width modeling (PWM) for the approximation of an analog input signal with a variable duty cycle (Figure 4). These amps are highly powerful (usually up to 90% or above and during operation, the output transistors are switched on or off entirely. Bluesound Powernode 2i & Sonos Amp Bluesound is an alliance of audiophiles dedicated to delivering on the promise of wireless, digitally perfect high-fidelity audio. Wiring it into our reference system, it is clear that this is a different animal altogether to its predecessor. While its richness across the frequencies is retained, the soundstage appears more open, with even more granular detail fed in.The ability to access 20+ streaming services through the BluOS app and the ease of setting up a multi-room system with other Bluesound wireless speakers makes them a no-brainer. I look forward to mounting these on the wall in my new kitchen in the very near future. My kids are still looking for some butter tarts. Roon’s most utilized formats are supported! FLAC (up to 24/192kHz), WAV (up to 24/96kHz), MQA, and MP3 – in addition to AAC, WMA, WMA-L, OGG, ALAC, and AIFF. Setting the Pulse up for the first time is an object lesson in how this process should be done. You actually get excellent literature to help you but the process is so effortlessly straightforward, I would be amazed if anyone has ever had to read it. The apps are easy to find and both Android and iOS are excellent examples of the breed. It really is one of the very best operating systems going at the moment and it makes many rivals seem fiddly and unreliable by comparison. No less importantly is that it scales effortlessly as you add more devices. Bluesound Generation 2i is the next iteration of the Bluesound product line-up. Building on the strengths and success of the Gen 2 platform, Gen 2i boasts several technological updates that will be sure to add to the excitement and demand for these popular products.

Specific aspects of the wireless experience using your smartphone, tablet, or laptop — or even the Bluesound NODE as the hub, are hard to ignore because of how much they improve the “experience” of listening in your home. You can attach multiple players to the house with AirPlay 2 on Bluesound 2i and make them interact via AirPlay. Apple AirPlay® 2 lets you stream directly from an iPhone® or iPad® and ask Siri to play Apple Music

Its hi-res music support will be a big draw for some, and Bluesound’s app is a significant step up over the rather rudimentary Audio Pro offering. We can’t be too harsh on Bluesound or its top-of-the-range speaker – the choice to strip it entirely and begin again was a bold one that highlights the drive not only for market dominance, but more generally in bettering the performance available from a multi-room speaker. If you’re in the market for an all-in-one sound system that’s high-res audio compatible, multiroom-enabled and compact enough to park anywhere in the room without drawing undue attention, then this new Bluesound is a bang-on buy. Sonos Radio, a private, ad-supported online radio experience, is recently launched, adding 60,000 worldwide stations to the sound system. This is a maintenance release of BluOS 3.6.12 for NAD C658, as well as NAD AVRs with the VM130 and VM300 4K HDMI cards ONLY.

With an enhanced 100 watt digital amp at its heart, the PULSE MINI 2i is powerful well beyond its size. The twin woofer units deliver deeper, more sustained bass than the previous model, giving a more life-like sound than before. This is a maintenance release of BluOS 3.14.2 for PULSE SOUNDBAR+, NODE (N130), and POWERNODE (N330) ONLY.Bluesound uses numerous innovations, among them sophisticated NAD Electronics amplification systems and world-famous PSB Speaker acoustic technology. Imagine my delight logging into both my iHeart Radio and SiriusXM accounts via the BluOS app and finding multiple NHL feeds that I could listen to in the kitchen late at night while dreaming of butter tarts. One of the advantages of Roon is that I can toggle on and off the sound of the Pulse 2 and 2i with the speakers side-by-side. Whether I’m listening to MQA on Tidal or my ripped CD’s the source is always the same. I don’t think WhatHiFi had this capability and if they were doing a comparison test with different sources at different times or by comparing notes I believe they were at a disadvantage. some of these web prices are cheaper than in-store, so please mention that you've seen these offers online) Perhaps the biggest disappointment of the Pulse 2i is that Bluesound should’ve carried over the two 2.75 inch midrange drivers from the Pulse 2 into the Pulse 2i. Though the Pulse 2i does sound better with two 5 inch woofers and two 1 inch tweeters the addition of the two midrange drivers would’ve added to the sound quality substantially. The 2i speaker enclosure is large enough to support the additional drivers.