Bluesound Pulse Mini 2i Wireless Speaker - White

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Below it, however, the Pulse Flex 2i (above) and Pulse Mini 2i have undergone tweaks rather than a full makeover. Bluesound’s focus here has been on upgrading connectivity, with otherwise comparatively minimal tweaks to performance, to maintain its original character. The system supports Alexa, Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect, Apple AirPlay 2, and it’s very easy to group a number of speakers together in a multi-room scenario and control the volume of each speaker independently. Customers also have better control over their audio settings with the Pulse 2i and Pulse Mini 2i. Popular DSP settings like Wide Mode, Late Night, and Dialog, much-loved and much-used in the current Bluesound Pulse Soundbar, are now available to these updated Gen 2i speakers.

Although you can access your own digital music library, Bluesound also gives you access to near-unlimited music via Internet radio and the best streaming music services. Compatible with Spotify (Premium account required for full features), Tidal, Deezer, Qobuz and Napster, amongst others, the PULSE MINI 2i is ever-ready to play your favourite music. Being compatible with Hi-Res music files also makes the PULSE MINI 2i the perfect match for Tidal, Qobuz and other premium, Hi-Res music services. In terms of the sheer spread of product though, BluOS is more like the MusicCast system. As well as the Bluesound range of products - itself considerable - it is fitted to a very wide spread of NAD products including the AV receivers and the Masters Series high end models. This means that you can technically start with an all in one speaker like this and end up with a whole house of heavy duty NAD goodness. It might even include other brands too going forward as the software is now being licensed out. Soundbars provide some benefits over more conventional home theater layouts: They require less space and are therefore more inexpensive and simpler to install. If you’re searching for a Dolby Atmos soundbar or want something to link to your MP3 player, there is a model for you. What’s more, this single Pulse Mini 2i can extend AirPlay 2 compatibility across an entire existing BluOS ecosystem at a stroke.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. Fortunately, our store has several stellar options that satisfy the dizzying range of possibilities represented by the ellipsis in the previous sentence. Let’s start with two Bluesound speakers that are staff andcustomer Roon Ready favorites – the Pulse 2iand its smaller sibling, the Pulse Mini 2i.

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Small enough to sit below a TV screen, the unit has only forward-facing drivers, which means it can be parked on an AV shelf, or furniture. Both stereoscope amps have RCA-level inputs for any typical source – music streamers, CD players, and so forth. Often one of the RCA connections is a phone input that is specially designed to be attached to a turntable to accommodate the incredibly low level of signal and external equalization needed for those sources.

As far as wireless streamers and just-add-speakers systems go, you’d be hard pushed to find a sound quality superior to that of the Node 2i or Powernode 2i. Those improvements, along with a family of mostly talented products, has kept Bluesound as an attractive high-end multi-room proposition. If you do opt for double-duty as a TV sound system, dialogue is effortlessly smooth. Bulletproof (Sky One) sounds suitably cinematic. If you have a thin-sounding flatscreen, smaller than 50-inches, I’d be seriously tempted to hook one up. Why buy the Bluesound Pulse Mini 2i? Bluesound is nowhere near imitating the feature selection of Sonos. It was nevertheless knowledgeable, and up to now Sonos has stopped legally interfering with it. It is not easy to see if Bluesound has succeeded in setting Sonos up or just figuring out which works well, particularly when you browse online and can’t hear the sound of their products. Model by model comparison Bluetooth speaker This is a maintenance release of BluOS 3.16.1 for NODE (N130), POWERNODE (N330), and PULSE SOUNDBAR+ ONLY.

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The PULSE MINI 2i is more powerful and produces more detailed audio than many rival players twice its size, featuring freshly redesigned tweeters that expand the listening sweet spot. Place the PULSE MINI 2i anywhere in the home, and fi ll the space with beautifully textured, full-range sound. The Pulse Mini 2i is its downsized sibling. It’s small but punches above its weight, delivering 100 watts of lovely NAD bi-amped audio via 4 PSB drivers, two 4″ mid-bass woofers, and two 0.75″ dome tweeters. The sound quality belies its miniature footprint. If you’re like me, you’ll catch yourself looking at this speaker in disbelief while putting together ingredients in the kitchen. When we moved into our home 14 years ago, we took advantage of the ability to install 9 runs of CAT6A to the kitchen, dining room, living room, den, basement, and 4 bedrooms. My basement office has a network switcher with independent runs to my iMac, Roku streamer, and Andover Songbird that sits on my desk. 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.

The Pulse Mini 2i creates a much wider stereo image but it’s still not the same experience as two speakers placed 7-8 feet apart. It does deliver substantially more bass than its smaller sibling; if you listen to music with a lot of bass information — it’s clearly the better option. The brand puts it this way: “The Pulse Mini 2i powered speaker takes decades of hifi audio legacy and squeezes it into a single box. Delivering rich and detailed sound, the Pulse Mini 2i can easily fit into small living spaces, all the while providing an outstanding high-res music streaming experience.” The 32-bit/192kHz DAC remains, as does its long list of connections, including RCA, coaxial, optical and subwoofer outputs, with physical inputs for optical, analogue and USB-A alongside wi-fi, Bluetooth aptX 4.1 and AirPlay 2.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. Innovation means we use creativity, experience, expertise, and perspective as we look to the future, so that our customers can experience their music in new and fresh ways. It means we draw on our HiFi heritage - the heart, soul, blood, and sweat that have gone into oursister brands before us - to help us blaze new trails, forge better paths, and create hi-res, hi-def, high-standard products that cut through the white noise and truly stand out in the world of home stereo.