Though not as smart as Sonos, this multiroom speaker shines when you crank up the sound.
Bluesound Pulse M review: precision sound for any room MSRP $449.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “Powerful, and detailed, it's a versatile speaker for demanding listeners.” Pros Cons When it comes to multiroom audio, the undisputed king is Sonos. But discerning music listeners will tell you it’s not the only game in town.
Design-wise, the Pulse M looks a little like the portable $399 Sonos Move , and its oval size and shape is also reminiscent of the $379 Bose Smart Speaker 500 . And just like those products, the Pulse M comes in two color choices; black or white. In an era of ubiquitous smart voice assistants, Bluesound has opted to take a balanced approach. The Pulse M is not a smart speaker — there are no onboard mics — but it does play nice with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple’s Siri if you already have one or more of these smart speakers in your home. That’s a pretty big contrast to both Bose and Sonos, which have been integrating full smart speaker functionality into an increasing number of their products.
In order to get that 24/192 support, you’ll need to stream from a music source that’s supported within the BluOS app. It’s a generous list — second only to Sonos in its size — and includes some top hi-res and lossless services like Tidal, Amazon Music, and Qobuz. But it’s still missing some major players: Apple Music, YouTube Music, Pandora, and Soundcloud, to name the biggest.
Still, once you get used to where everything lives, you feel like there’s nothing you can’t do with it, and on my iPhone 14 it was very fast and responsive, even when cruising through hundreds of albums on my NAS drive. If I’ve got one complaint it’s that there’s no universal search. To find the music you want, you first have to choose the source.
The twang of Mark Knopfler’s guitar in Dire Straits’ Six Blade Knife slices through the air, and Billie Eilish’s whispery vocals on Bad Guy are never once muddied or hidden by that song’s throbbing bass line.
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