The app scrolls through huge music libraries without much hesitation – I whizzed down a list of more than 900 albums on my NAS drive and it needed only a brief pause when it reached “M”. As far as multiroom apps go, it's one of the better ones and places all the key functions front and center. By including six shortcut buttons on both the unit and an accompanying remote control, it's a lot easier to get music playing on the Bose system if you don't have your phone handy.

We'd have liked to control the amount of treble, but the ability to ratchet down the bass actually came in handy during our tests.Praesent lobortis, tortor et finibus fermentum, diam metus egestas est, nec dapibus dui tellus eu ligula. Sound from devices plugged in to a host system with SoundTouch built-in can be rebroadcast to a group. Scroll down and tap the system you want to remove from the group: When grouped, a check appears next to the system name; when ungrouped, a + appears next to the system name. When the SoundTouch range was first introduced you needed to connect each speaker to your PC via a USB cable, and this was light years behind Sonos' wireless system. The intuitive layout places tabs at the edges of the screen, which you can swipe inwards to switch menus.

However, Apple device owners can use Apple AirPlay 2 to group the SoundTouch 30 speaker – Series III with Bose Home Speaker family products for multi-room synchronized playback.With Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®, and Apple AirPlay 2 compatibility, you can wirelessly stream whatever you want, however you want. But the SoundTouch 30 loses ground in its inability to improve on the aspects of the Bose sound present in its smallest family member. In the end we had to install the SoundTouch software on that laptop and tell it to look for an " NAS," even though it was just software running on the same machine. Yes, SoundTouch speakers are compatible with select NAS drives, including Synology’s DiskStation, Passport + and Western Digital’s My Cloud™, so you can stream your personal music library even while your computer is off. Unless indicated otherwise, all settings are cleared and reverted to their original out-of-box state.

The Bose SoundTouch Control Skill will be available to all existing SoundTouch owners through a free software update. The SoundTouch™ 30 series III gives all the details on an OLED display that shows you the current song, station and playlist to help you keep a track on your music. With Sonos, you can create left/right stereo pairs with two Play:5 or Play:1 speakers, for example -- no such feature exists with Bose yet). SoundTouch 30 is a wireless music system that streams songs via DLNA, Spotify, Deezer, internet radio and Bluetooth, as well as forming part of a multiroom network with other SoundTouch speakers.Lisa Gerrard's Middle Eastern-inspired melody soared beyond the confines of the cabinet to fill the small CNET listening space, and the egg shakers that flank her appeared to come from a foot away from each side of the box. At around two minutes and 30 seconds the song features a slow descending bass line and the Bose displayed audible port noise, or distortion, from the very first note of the progression. Assign a preset for your best Spotify party playlist, another for the Internet radio station you recently discovered through TuneIn, and a third for all the tracks ever recorded by that artist you love.

In the SoundTouch app, the host system is listed first followed by the number of grouped systems (i. Thanks to its built-in Wi-Fi connection, the SoundTouch 30 lets you stream music from servers on your home network, such as PCs and NAS drives, as well as Spotify, Deezer and internet radio.This bass preponderance had a negative effect on performance at higher volumes--just over the 60 percent mark-- with our test bass track, "Life," by the Beta Band. Below the system icon and name, choose the desired device source (Note: Only sources available on the system with appear, i.