![]() The Bose Revolve II and Revolve+II can get you connected with your preferred digital assistant… kinda. As this speaker was on loan to me I didn’t test this out.Īlexa/Google/Siri Smart voice control: sorta This essentially means these speakers will stand up to some pretty good splashing but you can’t submerge them. The Revolve II and Revolve II+ are both water resistant with an IP55 rating. There are a few other features worth noting. ![]() You can, by the way, pair two Revolve IIs or mix and match the II+ Stereo pairing is as easy as flipping a switch in the app and sounds wonderfully balanced and dizzyingly symphonic. Stereo pairing is a really nice way to get more immersive sound if you do want to splash out and get two speakers. Stereo Pairing Bose Revolve II and Bose Revolve + II Better to go into the app, unpair them and then power down so you can keep the music going. One quirk I noticed: If the speakers are linked together and you turn one off, the whole system shuts off. Even at that volume, the audio stayed clear. At 75% volume on the Revolve +II the sound filled the huge open concept living room and kitchen and carrying on a conversation was impossible. When it comes to volume, even the Revolve II is plenty loud enough at 50% volume. Each of the layers-the high, the mids and the low end- feel like they each have their own place in the room and overall they sound really really great. They are extraordinarily well balanced and have bass that’s prominent but not buzzy. ![]() Delicate sounds are easily audible, like the rasp of a brush on a drum-skin. I can say for a fact these speakers both sound outstanding. Let’s get to the real reason you’re here… the sound quality. You can also check battery levels and manage your Bluetooth connections. Verbal confirmations (which you can enable or disable inside the app) follow from the speaker. Bose Connect appīose’s app give you a few additional features for your speakers including the ability to pair them together for stereo left and right channels, or set them up in what’s called party mode where the same sound will play across multiple speakers.īoth of those are done at the click of a button inside the app and both worked well and instantly for me. You can also get them connected in the Bose Connect app. The first thing I noticed is that the speakers don’t arrive charged, which is a bit of a disappointment and means you’ll need to wait 4 hours before your first use.Įven so you can set these speakers up in seconds when you turn them on, they go into pairing mode and you’ll find them instantly in your phone’s Bluetooth menu. Charging time, by the way takes about 4 hours on either speaker… which is an incredibly long time. While some portable speakers can get you 20 hours of life or more, I’d say what Bose is offering here is merely average. That’s not a lot, given Bose has had over 5 years to upgrade. I’ll make a quick note on battery life… each speaker here only adds an hour of addition battery life over the original Revolve speakers. SoundLink Revolve+ II also has a carrying handle and has up to a 17-hour battery life, while SoundLink Revolve II has up to a 13-hour battery life. SoundLink Revolve+ II is larger and generates higher-volume, more “room-filling sound” claims Bose, than SoundLink Revolve II. The main differences are the size, battery life and volume, and of course price – which we’ll get to. However, it’s hard not to admire the Bose Revolve for its range of talents, though, and despite not getting the full five stars, we can imagine this tiny, talented speaker will still turn plenty of heads.These are both portable Bluetooth wireless speakers. £200 is quite a lot to pay for a speaker, especially when the Megaboom is bigger, clearer, more ruggedly-built and available for less. VerdictĬompared with its main rivals, such as the UE Megaboom, the Revolve is a bit too pricey. Its sense of energy and drive is apparent with whatever you song you play through it, and when it goes loud, it’s capable of impressive volume. The Bose Revolve is less insightful, but it’s still fun to listen to. The Megaboom breathes in more openness into the performance, and you can identify instruments’ placement better, too. The Megaboom delivers a bigger scale of sound, too, but then it is physically bigger. Its rival, the UE Megaboom, is more articulate and handles dynamic shifts and rhythm changes with more confidence. It’s not perfect – we wish the Bose sounded clearer, and that edges of notes were more definite and crisply defined. The guitar strums in Death Cab for Cutie’s A Lack of Colour sound delicate and precise, while voices are gentle and melodic. It delivers plenty of detail alongside the punch. There’s a warmth to the sound that makes it enjoyable to listen to, and this time, Bose steers clear of making the bass go too boomy.
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