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BLUESOUND NODE (2021)

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£549

STREAMER

Like the two Nodes before it at their time of arrival in 2014 and 2018 respectively, the latest Node (2021) entered the surprisingly sparse budget music streamer market with plenty of up-to-date, all-round appeal – and that much is evident before you even plug the thing in and hear what it can do.

BluOS – that is, Bluesound’s proprietary multi-room wireless streaming platform – is a given for networked Bluesound gear and, increasingly, streaming products from its sister brand NAD and partner firms such as Dali. So we get a reassuring feeling of business as usual when we first power up the Node, hook it up to our network via an ethernet cable, and

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