By Jamie Carter
The Bluesound Pulse is an all in one wireless music system designed to stream music – even in hi-res – from almost anywhere you can think of.
Able to form part of a multi-room music system if you pair it with other Bluesound products, the Pulse Mini can host web radio streams, music from the likes of Spotify, Amazon Music and Deezer (and many more), and via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth from a phone. It can also stream from laptops and desktops, and network storage devices like the Bluesound Vault and NAS drives. It connects to a home network by either Wi-Fi or an included Ethernet LAN cable.
Design and features
Let’s start with the App.
BluOS is all about unity. Available for devices running iOS (including Apple Watch), Android and Kindle Fire (and Windows & Mac OS X desktops), the app puts all of Bluesound’s sources on one screen. Streams are processed by an ARM Cortex A9 1GHz multi-core processor.
So far, so Sonos. Where the Pulse Mini really comes into its own is audio quality, and specifically, hi-res audio streaming.
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Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac