Bose SoundTouch 30 Series III Wireless Music System

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Additional music features: skip forwards/backwards, play/pause and rate your music (thumbs up or down buttons) as you listen. It also gives you a new option-Unique to SoundTouch with which you can set your favourite music to six presets and the system at home will remember it. If buttons work on one but not the other, see Remote is intermittent or does not control your Bose product, Buttons on product do not work or work intermittently or App is blank, unresponsive, won't open or crashes.

The ability to easily connect a NAS device is a bonus, but one tempered by the omission even of Tidal – surely the most popular lossless streaming service. While the upper-mid emphasis meant the middle section with the child's prayer did come from outside of the speaker boundaries, the cymbals became thin and distorted, like a rainmaker instrument.

Two years ago, we gave the SoundTouch series III 30 four stars, but the subsequent introduction of similarly sized speakers with similar features since – most notably from Audio Pro and Denon – has shed a different, and less favourable, light on its abilities. The SoundTouch 10 is our smallest SoundTouch speaker that delivers full, rich sound and Bose performance that seems to defy its size. It's targeting people who want a system that's simple to set up and use and is most likely tapping into a music service such as Spotify, Pandora or Internet radio. The Bose® SoundTouch 30 Series III Wireless Music System is a powerhouse of music playback and streaming.

With this sound system, you can play music in every room or different music in different rooms by adding new systems to the multi room set up. 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. 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. Not the last word in sound quality, perhaps, but the SoundTouch 30’s room-filling performance, decent features, slick smartphone app and premium construction make it worth a punt.While the diminutive SoundTouch 10 stood up well against this current crop of competitors, our testing of its chunkier sibling led us to having little alternative but to review its original star rating. 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. With the volume slider set to 2/3 or less, the Bose can sound big and lush, especially with huge atmospheric tracks like Dead Can Dance's "Yulunga. On the top live the rubberized controls that include six shortcuts as well as volume, an aux/Bluetooth switch and power -- though, sadly, no mute or play button.

As far as multiroom apps go, it's one of the better ones and places all the key functions front and center. However, making this change caused the speaker to sound thinner and less involving with other music than the Sonos. For instance, we initially had difficulty adding music from a Twonky server on a networked laptop (it simply wouldn't find it), while the Sonos system had no problem.Swipe the “Explore” tab and you’ll see a list of music sources, including Spotify, Music Library (PCs, NAS drives), Internet Radio, Bluetooth, Aux In and Add Music, the latter allowing you to add new music libraries or log into any streaming services you subscribe to. Praesent lobortis, tortor et finibus fermentum, diam metus egestas est, nec dapibus dui tellus eu ligula.