Bluesound streaming · Kansas City.

What Bluesound is known for

Bluesound makes wireless hi-res multi-room audio, controlled from the BluOS Controller app, which plays music from streaming services or a local library. Its site links to NAD Electronics and PSB, two lines we also carry. The families on Bluesound’s site today:

• NODE. Wireless stereo components that add streaming to an existing hi-fi system, including the NODE ICON and NODE NANO.
• POWERNODE and EDGE. Streamers in the same family; the POWERNODE carries its own amplifier, so it can drive a pair of speakers directly.
• PULSE. Compact wireless speakers, the PULSE FLEX 2i, PULSE M and PULSE MINI, plus the PULSE CINEMA and PULSE CINEMA MINI soundbars and the PULSE SUB.
• BluOS. The app and platform across all of them, with access to more than twenty streaming services by Bluesound’s count.

Where we use Bluesound

A NODE turns an amplifier and speakers that already sound good into a streaming system. A POWERNODE drives a pair of in-ceiling speakers in a kitchen or a study, which makes it a building block of whole-house audio. PULSE speakers go where no cable will reach. Where a family already uses Sonos, we usually stay with one platform rather than mix two.

What we check before we order

• Channel count. Every speaker and subwoofer in the room is counted first, with headroom for the next one.
• Rack space and heat. Where the equipment lives, how it is ventilated and how it is powered and protected.
• Network. A wired connection for streaming, updates and control, rather than Wi-Fi in a closed cabinet.
• Control. How the system will be turned on and switched: a Control4 or Crestron remote, a keypad or an app.

The Bluesound model in the proposal is chosen after those four are written down.

What Bluesound pairs with in our houses

Ceiling and wall speakers from PSB or Totem Acoustic, an NAD amplifier in a listening room, a wired network, and a Control4 or Crestron keypad so music starts with the room scene. Bluesound says its products work with smart home control systems; we confirm the integration for each model before we order.

How we supply and install Bluesound

After the no-cost planning consultation we list the rooms, where the speakers go and what drives them. We order to the plan, wire the network and speakers, set up BluOS and the rooms, and add the system to the keypads. Call (913) 804-7575.

After the install

Every Bluesound job ends with a handover in the room: we show you how it works, test it with you, and record the models, settings and wiring in your project record so the next visit starts from facts rather than guesses. If something stops working, you call us, and the person who answers can see what was installed. Our installation carries a five-year workmanship warranty from the final invoice. Because we also look after the network and the control system around it, the streaming system is never fixed in isolation from the rest of the house.