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Bose Announces AirPlay 2-Equipped Portable Home Speaker
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I’ve got proper 5.1.2 in the living room and 2.0 in the bedroom. Something like this (definitely not this Bose garbage specifically though) would be great for having in the bathroom, taking into the garage, or out back to the fire pit.
I must say, I'm not a fan of Bose, but since I bought my Soundtouch 10 they added a lot of features, for instance Spotify Connect. Can't say the same for Teufel, where they miraculously removed Airplay support for a 3 year old speaker. So bonus points for Bose there. Next time I would buy an Apple speaker I guess anyway. I think they sound better.
I have Sonos Playbar and Sub, I’ve gotten away from complex home theater like I used to love.
Decent audio in the living room (Marantz and Dali), but for kitchen and bedroom these are nice speakers and good enough.
This is the issue. Bose speaker products generally have decent, but not exceptional, sound quality (apart from the headphone noise
cancellation, which as you say is class leading), but they charge premium prices. You can get better quality kit for the same price,
or similar quality for a lower price (without the Bose design). If you like the design and are happy with the price and sound quality
then they're a perfectly good choice. I haven't come across any bad Bose products, so they're also a safe choice.
I too have the Revolve+ and love it. I think I would order the this new speaker to see how it differs sound wise to the Revolve. Being AirPlay 2 enabled isn’t a huge incentive as I primarily use my existing speaker for outdoors and on the go. But am always interested in how these sound.
Yeah, they really thought about this when they designed this. Someone's gonna come up to the speaker and try to pour out some coffee only to find out that it's playing music instead. Brilliant!!
I was thinking more about it looking like a tin of paint from the hardware store. Can you imagine the eye-rolling memes and "hilarious" headlines from tech blogs if this was an Apple product?
‘Does like almost’?Hard facts.
He was correct. Almost $4B in 2017. $3.9B to be exact.
Here's some hard facts:
https://www.forbes.com/companies/bose/#318955bb1c46
That was old long before you even thought about registering here. Do keep up at the back there.
It will be interesting to see how this and the Sonos version compare. As I said in the Sonos thread, I have recently purchased a second airport express (used of course) and was planning to use it on the porch with some permanent speakers (that I haven't purchased yet). This may be a better option as we could use it in the living room as a surround speaker when it isn't needed on the porch. If it doesn't have a dock like the Sonos, then I currently prefer the Sonos.
Yup when I see someone post that, it shows me that they don't know what they're talking about. lol.
3.8 billion. Fact.‘Does like almost’?
My home theater destroys anything like this and the receiver supports AirPlay 2. These are gimmicks for people who know nothing about audio, have no space, and/or see too lazy to have a proper home theater setup.
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This looks as if it's a variation on the Bose Soundlink Revolve+, which does have an (optional, extra cost) charging dock. If you already have Sonos speakers in the living room, then the Sonos portable would be an obvious choice, since you tell it to be a left or right surround speaker and *poof* it's part of your (Sonos) home theater setup. The Revolve+ has a 3.5mm jack intended for connecting an MP3 player or similar (it can connect via that jack, or USB, or BT) - unclear if this new speaker keeps the jack (there's no mention of it and no pics show the back). If it only has BT and WiFi, hooking it up as a surround speaker would seem iffy unless you have, say, a Bose soundbar that specifically knows how to talk to it.
Thanks for that information, very helpful. I obviously have a lot of research left to do, I don't currently have anything Sonos, just a HomePod in the kitchen. I thought about picking up a second HomePod in the near future and using one or the other of these as a 3rd, surround speaker. We have a soundbar with sub but it is quite old and sometimes has connection issues. Then again, we love the HomePod in the kitchen and its nice to have the soundbar on the wall and not taking up space on the mantle.
Lots to think about...
Tell us how good your joke theater is when you go to a picnic or tailgate or the beach. lol. You realize this is a battery powered bluetooth portable speaker, right?
Don’t be too proud of yourself for highlighting an obvious typo.
I wasn’t just talking about this speaker. People use these speakers for home music and sound bars for movies.
Portability is their only purpose and many aren’t even used for that.
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