- Bluesound Pulse Flex: Brand new version with significant redesign
- WiiM Sound: WiiM’s first smart speaker with multi-room functionality
- Aggressively priced at £279 / €299 and £299 / €349 respectively
It’s a big day for the best wireless speakers with not one, but two pretty exciting product launches. WiiM is launching WiiM Sound, its first-ever smart speaker, which was previously revealed but lacked a release date or price. And Bluesound has recreated its popular all-in-one, the Pulse Flex.
These are both top-notch smart speakers with multi-room capabilities and are priced at an interesting level that sits between the Sonos Era 100 and the Sonos Era 300.
Bluesound Pulse Flex 2025: key features and prices
The Bluesound Pulse Flex has been around for a while now – it launched in 2018 – and this new generation gets a significant redesign that makes it look much slimmer. There are three colors – White Tan, Black Charcoal and White Pebble Gray – and the new design is a big improvement on the rather boxy original: from the top it’s teardrop-shaped, while from the front it’s become more vertical than before.
Of course, it’s what it sounds like that matters most. Powered by a SmartDSP amplifier, it features a four-inch woofer and a three-quarter-inch tweeter, delivering 50W of total power. It supports Hi-Res Audio at up to 24-bit/192kHz and has both MQA decoding and DSD256 playback. And as you would expect from Bluesound, it runs the BluOS streaming platform with more than 20 included streamers including all the big names.
The new Pulse Flex has dual-band Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet and Bluetooth with aptX HD, and it also has multiple wired inputs including USB-C and optical/analog inputs. It can be used independently, in a stereo pair or as the back surround for a system that includes other Bluesound products. It can also be used as part of a multi-room sound system.
The Pulse Flex will be available from 16 December 2025 with an RRP of £279 / €299. That’s about $372 / AU$572.
WiiM audio: key features and pricing
The WiiM audio was originally previewed in May 2025 and will launch as planned this month (October 2025). It delivers 100W of power through its 4-inch long-throw woofer and twin tweeters angled slightly left and right (which is the same configuration as the Sonos Era 100, interestingly enough), and it supports Hi-Res Audio at 24-bit/192kHz.
The WiiM audio comes in a familiar cylindrical design punctuated by its circular 1.8-inch touchscreen, which allows you to adjust playback, EQ and input when away from your phone or the included voice remote. And it runs on WiiM’s streaming platform, which, like BluOS, contains all the main streamers.
WiiM Sound also has automatic room correction and, like the Bluesound Pulse Flex, can be used independently or in stereo. It can also be used as a center or surround speaker in a Dolby 5.1 setup and in a WiiM multi-room system, which could of course include WiiM amplifiers and streaming boxes.
Connectivity is impressive and includes Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 with LE Audio, Ethernet and a 3.5mm Aux input.
The WiiM audio is available from this month, October 2025, priced at £299 / €349 / $299 (approx. AU$459).
The Sonos Era 100, by comparison, costs $219 / £199 / AU$319 officially, but at the time of writing has some great discounts – in the UK it’s just £159, which is great value. The more powerful and detailed Sonos Era 300 costs $479 / £449 / AU$749.
Will these Hi-Res friendly wireless speakers offer more audio fidelity to make them worth the higher price than the Sonos Era 100, but without the bulk and expensiveness of the Era 300? We have big plans to find out and compare them all soon…
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