Bluesound Pulse MINI 2i Compact Wireless Multi-Room Smart Speaker with Bluetooth - Black - Compatible with Alexa and Siri

Wow... the sound and functionality of Pulse 2i Mini is exceptional! I was looking for a Roon Ready device to play on my porch and other remote areas, and this is the perfect solution (you do need to plug it into an outlet, but it connected to my network within 30 seconds). I was able to unpack, connect, and "group zones" within 15 minutes. You will have hi-res music playing from your main system, other Roon devices, and this wonderful system completely in-synch without any fuss. Sound quality, for both CD and hi-ressources, is incredible. I noticed most negatives review pointsfor this system are based on the user interface. It's a side point, but Roon solves them all, including up-sampling CD resolution files to hi-res, DSP, and seamless multi-zone control. Don't have Roon? The Bluesound Pulse Mini 2i software still offers an incredible amount of options to listen to online streaming services, other networking, usb sources, and beyond. I tried the Bluesound interface briefly and didn't find it to be bad at all. Build quality is exceptional... and again, the sound is amazing! Highest of recommendations.

I wasn't expecting the sound quality to match my high end audio system speakers. It doesn't, not even close. I am a little disappointed in the sound quality for the current 700.00 price. I did notice the price went up 200.00 in the last year or so. This is probably due mainly to tariffs. The company is Canada based and the components are manufactured in China. I am in the US. What is great is the seamless integration with other Bluesound components and the BlueOS software application. I love how it works. Not so much a fan of the sound quality. There are audio adjustments that can be made via software for the Pulse Mini 2i and I played around with that. I think the ideal solution for me would be an open source offering that can integrate other manufacturer speakers (B&W, etc.) into the Bluesound ecosystem. I searched and could not find anything like that currently on the market. In my opinion, this product is overpriced for what you get. Even at the previous 500.00 price I would say it is overpriced. I already had a Bluesound Node that I use for streaming my NAS based music. It is plugged into my home audio system and works great. That is what prompted me to give the Pulse Mini 2i a try. I probably would not buy another one of these for the price. Sound quality - not all that great relatively speaking Connectivity - awesome (ethernet and WIFI options) Ease of setup - awesome Value for the money - so so, not so much

I purchased a soundbar and sub about two years ago. This simple setup seemed to work great so I decided to expand to a multi room setup and add surround sound speakers. Huge mistake. Since purchase and setup I have been plagued with a ton of issues that all trace back to a serious lack of thought on the software and networking side. Now for reference Im a network engineer turned cybersec architect with 13 years experience. I've been around a lot of software and networking stuff, and the choices made by bluesound are beyond pitiful. Let's start with the basics, network connection. These are wireless speakers whose main pitch is to allow multi room setup. Bluesound clearly cheaper out on whatever chips they use, because the speakers routinely see a signal strength about 10 dBm below what every other device/diagnostic tool does. This leads to incredibly degraded sound quality on speakers that are barely fifteen feet of unobstructed Line of Sight from the wireless access point. Additionally there has apparently been a bug in how they group speakers for Dolby surround with theater mode. I've had no eta on fixing it or any details, and no contacts from any senior support people despite promises they would. Onto the app. Some appalling design choices here. So the speakers will cast a non internet connected Hotspot for initial wireless network config. That makes sense, you connect to the devices Hotspot and then put in wifi info so it can join the network. One problem here, the app is designed so the speakers FIRST try to find an update and get stuck in that loop BEFORE YOU CAN CONNECT IT TO YOUR NETWORK AND THE INTERNET! This essentially forces you to have to login to the config page of the speaker to configure network settings as the app has no way to cancel the update search. Additionally common sense requests from the community, like being able to add speakers to multiple groups for on the fly sound assignment (basic feature for these types of devices) has been "on there to do list" for about 2-3 years from what I can tell from the forum posts. Dozens/hundreds of requests, no real movement or change from bluesound. As for support... Nice enough, but it seems like it's one person or two, and they essentially just read off a basic network troubleshooting guide with heavy implication you've set things up wrong. Now given my background I was able to counter this and prove my network was not at issue, unfortunately since this seems to be all they can address that left me dead in the water with my issues around quality, network connectivity, the surround sound bug, app issues, and other random big and little annoyances. I am heavily regretting ordering the additional speakers for my setup, and even more so on investing in this ecosystem in the first place. I am extremely dissapointed in the quality of the devices given my setup has cost around 3.5k, and bluesound does not seem to care to do much about it beyond imply I must have done SOMETHING wrong with my network config (again they can't say what because each specific they've had me check has come back fine/clean/configured properly of course) or say they're "looking into it". I would look at Sonos or Bose if I had to do this again. One final point, I've been able to get my system barely working (frequently need to reboot or reset/resync devices) mainly due to my Profesional background, it's absurd that these devices are so poorly made with regards to the network/wireless component that it essentially requires a background in network engineering to get about 70% of the functionality you're hoping for.

Excellent produit, simplissime d'utilisation. La seule info qui manque sur le manuel utilisateur: il faut appuyer 5s sur play/pause pour le mettre en veille profonde (mode "vacation"). Grosse réserve de watts pour un encombrement minimal. Belle finition. Grosse satisfaction par rapport à cet achat.

The sound is awesome!

Nach 5 Jahren kann man das Gehäuse und alle Kunststoffabdeckungen nicht mehr anfassen. Alles kleibt und man bekommt auch nicht runter. Bei meinem gleichzeitig gekauftem weissen Gehäuse ist es noch "anfassbar", den schwarzen kann man nicht mehr berühren. Mittlerweile funktioniert zwar die Software einigermassen gut aber jetzt überlege ich die Entsorgung weil es wiederlich ist diesen klebrigen Kunststoff anzufassen. Ich kannn jedem nur empfehlen: FINGER WEG! (im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes) 120 Euro pro Jahr für einen Wegwerf Lautsprecher (nach 5 Jahren gelegentlicher Nutzung) find ich nicht nachhaltig und ok.

Si vous êtes amateur de musique classique, peut-être que l’on peut trouver mieux comme appareil.