The ticket I raised also did not solicitate a decent response. Rvdoever said:Why do reviewers never notice this long standing issue, also complained about in many other threads on the BlueSound forum but completely ignored by their totally disinterested support staff with no desire to fix this or offer the option in an update to deactivate the default 50ms delay through the amp. Play Promises – a genre-spanning collaborative album by electronic musician Floating Points, jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra – and the Bluesound gives instruments texture and is clear and cohesive in the way it presents them the Marantz simply plots instrumental strands that bit more precisely on its expansive sonic canvas. There’s not as much rhythmic impetus behind, or sit-up-and-listen directness to, the Marantz PM7000N’s rendition – but it does enough to still be considered musical and counters the Bluesound’s cheerful cadence with a wider-scale, roomier soundstage and greater subtlety. It’s this rhythmic potency that plays into the hands of particularly fun speakers, as we find switching from our reference ATC SCM50 to the JBL 4309, so that’s worth considering when thinking of partnering speakers. Over to Low’s What Part Of Me and the snappy rhythm that underpins the track is unsurprisingly tight and well-driven. The Bluesound tracks the undulation of the harmonica and strumming well, and pays just as much scrutiny to Oberst’s front-and-centre vocal, which comes through the mix bold and full. We play Conor Oberst’s Overdue and the acoustic strings twang with a good degree of tangibility. They’re now more neutral sounding in the way they deliver music, while also making gains in clarity and insight across the frequency range.Įssentially what has always been an informative and entertaining presentation is now even more so. While Bluesound products have aligned themselves with a rich tonal balance in the past, the latest generation of Node and Powernode have veered away from this slightly. Like the latest Node, the Powernode is an engagingly musical performer – dynamically fluid and punchy, with plenty of energy to bestow on tracks that warrant it. Soundįor now, though, the Powernode is more or less as well-specced as these kinds of streaming amplifiers come – and, crucially, that is complemented by a talented performance. And the generational leap from an engineering aspect is also defined by more advanced DACs as well as more powerful processors that Bluesound says are “eight times faster than previous generations of Bluesound architecture” and therefore capable, to an extent, of handling future software-based technologies that the Powernode could offer down the line via firmware updates. The amplifier inside the Powernode is more powerful than that used in the previous generation, which delivered a relatively lowly 60 watts per channel. So far, this is an identical specification to the Node, but the Powernode’s big differentiator is the 80 watts per channel of ‘HybridDigital’ power amplification, which has been developed by NAD (Bluesound’s sister brand under their Lenbrook International parent company) and is naturally found in its amps of recent years. If your source device and headphones/speakers are aptX HD-compatible, you can wirelessly transmit (compressed) 24-bit music. That’s implemented two-way here, meaning you can send files from a device to the Powernode and transmit songs playing through the Powernode to wireless headphones or speakers, as an alternative to plugging a pair of headphones into the Powernode’s 3.5mm jack. Your offline option is, aside from wiring in other sources, aptX HD Bluetooth. Inputs Mini TOSLINK/3.5mm combo x 2, HDMI eARC, USB
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