Bose SoundTouch 30 Series III Wireless Music System

Product Information

The Bose simultaneously aims for both bass punch and enhanced vocal clarity but falls down a little at high volumes, where it can sound aggressive with overly bassy or trebly tracks, and distorts.

Helpfully, you don’t have to press any buttons to kick-start discovery – just plug it in, run the app and enter your Wi-Fi password.

The SoundTouch app must be installed on a device connected to the network to which the SoundTouch system will connect. While the improved routine is still not as elegant as Sonos' -- you need to press the "2" and "Vol-" together to put the speaker in setup mode -- it's still preferable to what preceded it. 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. The front and back of the rectangular cabinet are gently curved, and the lack of button clutter results in a pleasingly minimal look. When we reviewed the first-gen SoundTouch 20 in 2014, we balked at the lack of WAV and FLAC support.

The intuitive layout places tabs at the edges of the screen, which you can swipe inwards to switch menus. The remote enables the same functionality as the system’s button pad (power, volume, set/play presets, auxiliary mode). The useful “Recents” (sic) option at the top displays the last 24 tracks you’ve played, while the Settings option lets you change account settings, add new speakers, rename the speaker or tweak the bass level. dual-band wi-fi, the connection is stronger and more reliable, with the addition of 5GHz compatibility catering for more stable streaming. Unlike the Play:5, which now comes with both tone controls and a room correction feature, the Bose speaker only comes with a bass control.

Its sizeable dimensions (246mm high by 180mm deep) should create enough cabinet volume for a loud, room-filling sound. But there are a few holes in the feature list – there’s no AirPlay support, which might deter Apple devotees, and no hi-res music playback either. It has two accurately positioned drivers that take on the mid to high-range frequencies with a pulsating output definition.

x Ecosystem release, Bose® have added a numerical clock to all systems with displays (SoundTouch® 20 and 30) that once updated needs to be turned on from within the app as it is defaulted to off. Ty was nominated for Best New Journalist at the Australian IT Journalism awards, but he has only ever won one thing. For example, you can set the latest Deezer station to one preset, your favourite Spotify playlist to a second and the tracks saved on your tablet to the third. 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. 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.For example, say “Alexa, play my jazz playlist in the Kitchen,” and the playlist will begin to play on the SoundTouch speaker named “Kitchen. Everything is tested by our dedicated team of in-house reviewers in our custom-built test rooms in London, Reading and Bath. This hi-res display is sharp, and with three lines of text at its disposal there’s enough room to fit long song titles without scrolling. While it may seem counterintuitive to add Bluetooth to a Wi-Fi speaker what it does is improve the system's flexibility -- especially when compared against the company's main rival. These functions are carried out through Bose’s SoundTouch controller app, available for iOS and Android devices.