Daniel J SaitBluesound delivers a family of dedicated, multi-room wireless streaming digital music players, giving listeners the ability to playback their collection and play content from most popular online music services as well the Internet, in native HD.
No matter where music is streamed from – a computer, a VAULT, a NAS drive, a USB drive, via Bluetooth or straight from the cloud, the makers say Bluesound places the utmost importance on music integrity.
The family consists of ‘The NODE’ a non-amplified wireless streaming music player that connects all the user’s digital music to any existing stereo system. Designed to stream in HD, the NODE supports formats like MP3 and AAC and houses a high-performance sigma-delta 24/192 DAC that handles formats beyond CD quality such as FLAC and OGG.
The POWERNODE is an amplified wireless streaming music player with a patented, award-winning premium DirectDigital (DDFA) amplifier. The 35-bit/844kHz DDFA capability is designed to eliminate noise or distortion by keeping the signal perfectly digital right up to the speaker terminals. Capable of driving high-end speakers/subwoofers, the manufacturer says that POWERNODE draws only half the power than most other systems require to provide its 90W output.
The VAULT is a wireless streaming music player, vault and CD-ripper with an acoustically-quiet 1 TB high capacity HDD built in. The unit allows users or an installer to rip an entire CD collection in bit-perfect, lossless high resolution formats and will also create maximum-quality MP3 copies for sharing on mobile devices.
PULSE is an all-in-one compact streaming music speaker system, custom-tuned in one of North America’s most advanced sound labs by award-winning speaker designer Paul Barton. The PULSE is custom-tuned for a 24-bit listening experience using three specialised drive units (5.25in subwoofer and two full-range 2.75in aluminium cone drivers – total 80W) which are independently driven by three dedicated DirectDigital amplifiers.
The compact DUO powered subwoofer/satellite speaker combination offers precision-tuned digital equalisation with the POWERNODE’s DirectDigital amplifier. The DUO features an 8in powered SUB plus a pair of matching satellite speakers with 4in woofers and 1in aluminium tweeters.
Bluesound’s free mobile Apps on iOS or Android feature large album art views, smart playlist management and the ability to sync two or more players together. The Apps also give access to TuneIn, Spotify Connect, Rdio, WiMP, Qobuz, HIGHRESAUDIO, Slacker and Deezer. More news on specialist distribution of the system will be made later this year.