Bose SoundLink Revolve+ Portable and Long-Lasting Bluetooth 360 Speaker - Triple Black

I own and have owned a variety of Bluetooth speakers over the years. I have high end home audio for surround system. (Not Bose) For portable speakers I have owner the Bose SoundDock version I, II and III as well as the Bose Soundtouch 20 Series III, a Jawbone Big Jambox and Sonos Play 5. Wired speakers typically will sound better than portable because you have the extra power and built-in amplifier to drive it. My Sonos Play 5 has clear big sound and plays to very loud levels if needed. Love that speaker. The Soundtouch 20 also plays clear and loud and is punchy with bass. All my speakers serve a purpose and you need to decide what is most important to you. The non-battery portable speakers are great around my house, but I also like to cut the cord and take a speaker outside, to the beach, vacation, etc. I had been using my older Jambone Big Jambox which is a great speaker for its size and has clear sound and nice mid-range, but now 6 years old. Was looking to replace it with something that had long battery life, sounded clear with no distortion and plays to louder levels for outside. This Soundlink Revolve+ is simply amazing for its size. While not the biggest fan of Bose sound in home audio surround systems, I think they do an excellent job of producing great sound on smaller portable speakers. The Bose corporate “sound” can be equalized and bloated, but comes off warm and clear on the Revolve+. The sound never distorts at any level. What really amazes me is the bass out of this thing. Don't expect bass thumping and wall rattling sound, but compared to any portable speaker its size, nothing will beat this. Even better bass extension if you place closer to a wall. The first night I used it was in an outdoor deck gazebo with a few couples we had over. Everyone was shocked at the sound. Even in an open aired environment it sounded great. This speaker will go loud as well. Plenty loud for what I need it to do. Sixteen hour battery life is excellent as well. I downloaded the Bose app and while not fancy, lets you control more things and music playing through it. Also shows battery life on app. The speaker pairs instantly which is great too. Turn it on and it auto connects to the phone if previously added. You can add multiple phones as well in the list. The big test was when four of us were sitting in the four seasons room and I had it on the floor next to fireplace. We had at it low to medium levels while we were all talking. I kept finding myself looking down and seeing how small it was yet the sound was so much bigger. The carry handle is nice and overall look and design of it as well. Very portable. I really have no complaints about it and how it performs. Only thing of course would be wishing it were less money. However, you do get what you pay for here. I highly recommend this portable speaker and the splash proof, water resistant aspect is just a bonus. Go buy one and you won't regret it if on the fence.

Honestly I love speakers and especially portable speakers. I have a lot of them and always continue to find a way to buy more. I really don't like Bose that much but that pretty much turned around once I spent time with this speaker. So let me tell you about it and compare it to one of my favorites. The Sony SRS XB31 The build quality of this is great and I love the aluminum. It is very durable and I haven't quite scratched it yet which says a lot because I'm rough on electronics. I also took this on vacation and it still looks great. The Sony feel a little cheaper but holds up well. Overall 10/10 Sound quality is amazing though you get better bass on the xb31 and maybe a tad more volume. The highs are crisp and not over powering. the mids are very much there and theres not too much of it. The bass gets louder the more you turn it up and is very punchy. I will note that I use this with a galaxy note 8 and YouTube music/GP music. Overall 8/10 The battery is great I use this thing all day and by the time I get to the end of the day its like at 50% at the very least. The xb31 is a little less great but still lasts very long. Overall 9/10. Price was the thing I had to overlook to get this and its the main reason I don't like Bose. It is definitely not worth $300 and as soon as these go on sale grab one ASAP. You can also get an xb31 or even the bigger 41 for a lot cheaper and with those you get lights. 5/10 Overall its a great speaker and I love it. But the price is a little bit high and you could get a lot of other speakers for a lot cheaper. If you want a "cheap" speaker that sounds great and don't care a lot about the look or material look at the Sony SRS XB31-41. If you want durable metal, pleasing looks, and good 360° sound and maybe also don't care about the price. Get this it is worth it. That's if for this review and I suppose I'll leave some pics for you guys

This is truly the BEST portable / wireless / Bluetooth speaker EVER. The sound quality is AMAZING...it’s LOUD (without the rattling or shaky, tinny, scratchy sound that always seems to happen with the cheap ones)...it has serious bass....it is super easy to connect and use. I didn’t set anything up... I charged it, turned it on, connected to it, and started playing music. Honestly, if I didn’t know where the music was coming from and then I saw this speaker, I’d be floored. Because it’s so small, and the sound quality is THAT GOOD. One thing that I LOVE (but I’m sure I can change it in the settings) is the fact that it doesn’t ding or ring through my phone if I get a call or text. I have the Bose noise canceling headphones and anytime a notification or call comes through, it blows out my ear drums. So not having that happen is an awesome feature. I don’t love the little handle on top, but it’s absolutely necessary. It keeps the speaker clean from your hands and makes it easy to move from one spot to another; it also gives you the option to hang it. Bose rarely disappoints; in fact, they keep impressing me. While this one is expensive, it’s worth every single penny. Quality over quantity.

I purchased this for its excellent blue tooth sound quality...really nothing else. And the Bose Soundlink Revolve + delivers the best quality sound for its size, weight and portability. Its the SOUND QUALITY that matters...the primary job of a speaker! Right?? This is not my first rodeo with portable blue tooth speakers. I have (or had) a number of them including the Jawbone BIG Jambox, the Jawbone (regular size) Jambox, JBL Flip, JBL Flip 3, JBL Charge 2+, and when I really what to rock the patio, the Braven XXL. My main priority? SOUND QUALITY for its given size/weight. Do I really think I am going to throw my speaker in a pool? Really? So water proofing is not important to me. Do I care if 10 of friends want to hook up to my speaker? Matter of fact, I do...and don't want them to have that access. Do I want/need 360 degree sound? Is that important to me? Not at all. I simply want to hear (and feel) the lows all the way up to a drummer playing on the Hi-hat highs. Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" is a good test song for me. The bass, drums and rhythm section really push the bass with solid earthy tones. The crispness (is that a word?) of the snare drum and Hi-Hat pushes the top end of the listening spectrum, and Bose delivers on it IF.... ...you don't put the Soundlink Revolve + in a middle of a room. Put it about an inch from a wall ON A HARD SURFACE. There will be night and day difference in the SOUND QUALITY. Better yet, put it about an inch away from CORNER wall where you have 3 hard surfaces reflecting the sound as a speaker itself. My kitchen CORNER counter top behind works great! Try it yourself. I have hard wood floors, so sometimes, I put the speaker on the floor, in a corner and BOOM...what sound! And clean sound too! The battery life is nice (and expected) and I'll admit, that nylon carrying handle comes in handy, but most of the features are NOT important to me but the really reason, I bought this speaker...QUALITY SOUND for its size, portability and weight. Nothing more.

Mind-blowing sound. It is a mono speaker, but it's the best sounding mono speaker I've ever heard. It sounds better than most stereo bluetooth speakers! The 360 degree sound is awesome and incredibly convenient; having to reposition the speaker to achieve ideal sound quality for listeners is a thing of the past. As others have pointed out, this is an expensive speaker. But, you get what you pay for in this case. Best three hundred bucks I've ever spent. It may sound stupid, but I love the handle due to the convenience factor. I just can't say enough good things about this speaker! If you're on the fence about purchasing this Bluetooth speaker due to the fact that it's mono and others may feature stereo, don't be. I was originally. The sound quality is top of the line. Bottom line: Excellent product and well worth the money. Update: I remember reading a review of this product a few days ago saying that the physical buttons will wear down after heavy use. I won't lie; it did give me hesitation. Well, for those of you who fear the same thing, fear not! I've discovered a way to play this without having to ever touch the buttons! You will need to download the app, however. To turn on the speaker, open the bose connect app. Then, it will show the speaker, asking to connect. Simply swipe down on the image and it will connect the speaker to your device and power it on. To turn it off, just enable to "auto off" feature on the app. To control the volume, sinply do it from the app. I hope this helps!

I just got my Revolve+ today - a momentous day. I discovered that Bose released a spiritual successor to the SoundLink Mini / Mini II a few months ago and bought one within 15 seconds of my discovery. Shame on me for not knowing sooner. A bit of history: I bought the Mini a few after it was released. I thought - goodness gracious that sounds good for something I could slip in my pocket. It doesn't get super-loud; even at its own maximum volume the bass is badly washed out; producing its best performance really requires thoughtful placement. It must be backed up within a foot (or less) of a good solid vertical surface. On the upside: it attempts to attack bass frequencies that numerous speakers 5X its size filter out altogether. It's my "featherweight champion". Step up into a mid-size portable speaker and the Klipsch KMC-3 just walks away with it - and another speaker I bought and kept, the Bang & Olufsen Beolit 15 (see comparison photo beside Revolve+ attached), is similarly big-sounding, punchy, expansive and crisp, just sort of delivers its performance differently than the Klipsch and maybe with less WOOF. Both, masterpieces of listening enjoyment, for all kinds of music. But the kind of sound the SoundLink Mini could generate at moderate listening levels and in any environment just make it lovable - a real "WOW" moment when someone hears the kind of sound it can produce. Oh... and it's attractive. And well-made. And did I say, tiny? I like it so much (and my wife more or less expropriated the original Mini to carry all over the house and yard for kid-time and chores and exercise and such) that I bought a Mini II shortly after it came out, as a travel buddy on business trips. Back to the little guys. I've tried many. Not all, but many. Perhaps better than thirty makes and models in the "mini" and "mid-size" portable Bluetooth speaker ranges and the SoundLink Mini kept knocking them all down in the "ultra-portable" speaker form factor. For years, I've been bemoaning the lack of competent competition for this little guy. There really was none. Even as recently as... last week... I bought the theoretically estimable KEF Gravity One, same form factor as the SoundLink Mini and maybe 50% larger, but in theory, with dominant sound... and... woah. No. No, once again the SoundLink Mini slays a powerful foe. Yet again, I whined that nobody seems to be able to outdo the SoundLink Mini... including Bose themselves. When I found these SoundLink Revolve speakers were the successor to the SoundLink Mini I had VERY high expectations. Bose must have taken an excellent, industry-leading mini portable speaker and made it even better. The verdict: maybe it's better - but different. Not just a clear head-and-shoulders better-than-SoundLink Mini win. I would say, with bass response the Mini wins. Using a tone generator, the Mini is maybe -1 or 2db below 60Hz and inaudible under 45Hz. With the Revolve+, it's quieter under about 58Hz and disappears at 38Hz. On the face of it you'd think, good, slightly deeper bass, if only by a hair. But, the Revolve seems not to be able to emphasize, or project, those tones, especially around 60-80Hz, as well as the Mini. It's there, but it just doesn't balance out with the mids and treble as well as the Mini. The trade-off is soundstage. With the Mini, the sweet spot is pretty much a laser beam directly facing the front of the speaker. With the Revolve+, it REALLY doesn't matter which direction it's pointing - play your favorite song, pick up the speaker and rotate it in your hand, there's truly no distinction, no variation, at any point 360 degrees around the vertical axis of the unit. I'll also point out that the sound quality is nearly identical no matter where you are vertically - above, below, eye level with the speaker grille. So, one thing it does exceptionally well is actually filling the space around it with the music. The Revolve+ gets quite a bit louder than the Mini, but at the same time, similar to the Mini, the "loudness" of the mids and treble quickly defeats its ability to make bass and you end up with a sort of tinny, washed out one-dimensional blaring noise. It gets loud... but you wouldn't want to have to listen to it that way. It can, but you don't want it to. Similar to the Mini, the best sound is at low to moderate volumes. Aesthetically... it's a music lantern. A music canister. If you took it camping and felt for it in the dark, you might not be able to tell if you grabbed the speaker or the kerosene lamp. By way of lanterns, it's a very nice one indeed. The Mini is a brilliant, chic, retro shape with modern materials. This... not so much. The shell is aluminum and feels very solid to hold, but the feel doesn't save the looks. I guess there's really only so much you can do to have a real 360 degree portable speaker that doesn't look like a can or lantern. I don't have any bright ideas. Just pointing out that vs. the Mini, this isn't something you'd put on an executives' bookshelf and say, yeah, look at that. Nice huh? It definitely belongs on a picnic table alongside the ketchup and plate of hot dogs. And quite to that point - the sound quality seems to be precisely the same model. The Mini seems to have been designed first and foremost to pack a little tiny proper audiophile-quality listening experience into a little tiny package. It has a narrow soundstage, depends on positioning to really make the bass resonate, but boy, when you hear it performing, does it ever perform. This one is designed more to be a Good listening experience, but for everybody. Less on perfecting the sound, more on making it fill the space around it entirely. This is designed for parties. The Mini is designed for desks, bookshelves and kitchen counters. Going back and forth between the Mini II and the Revolve+, sitting right in front of me, on the same shelf, playing the same tracks, I still think I like the Mini's sound a notch better. The Revolve+ isn't bad at all, it's just different. Nevertheless, I''ll most likely keep the Revolve+. Keeping pace with the Mini already puts it beyond any competitor. I'll use this outside, maybe for parties out on the deck. Happy listening!

These speakers are Awesome. Very clear sound, the bass could be a bit more but I won't hold that against it as it is a stand alone speaker. I read in the description that they could be paired to work with the Echo Dot, which is the reason I bought this speaker in the first place. I got the first one and loved the full rich sound it played so I ordered a second to check out the pairing capabilities. The instructions to pair are not listed here at Amazon. I had no luck getting them to pair and Amazon Customer Service told me that stand alone speakers can not be paired with the Echo Dot or any of the other Alexa items. They told me if they come already paired then it would work. I had a fit trying to get them paired on my own with no luck. I eventually went to Bose and the instructions are there and very easy to follow. Here are the instructions I used from the owners manual. Keep in mind, you must pair the speakers together before you start playing any music utilizing your Alexa Item. Party mode 1. Make sure both speakers are powered on. 2. Make sure a speaker is connected to your mobile device. 3. On the speaker connected to your device, press and hold the Bluetooth® button and + simultaneously. 4. Release the buttons when you hear “Press the Bluetooth and volume down buttons simultaneously on a second Bose device.” 5. On the other speaker, press and hold the Bluetooth® button and – simultaneously. 6. Release the buttons when the speaker emits a tone. After 10 seconds, you hear “Party mode” from both speakers simultaneously. Party mode is enabled. You are now able to play audio in unison using your device. 7. For an optimal experience, position your speakers: • In the same room or outdoor area • So there are no obstructions between them Note: Performance may vary based on mobile device, distance and environmental factors. Stereo mode 1. Configure your speakers for Party mode (see page 23). 2. On a speaker, press Bluetooth button and + simultaneously. 3. Release the buttons when you hear “Stereo mode.” You hear “Left” from the left speaker and “Right” from the right speaker. Stereo mode is enabled. You are now able to play audio in stereo using your mobile device. 4. For an optimal experience, position your speakers: • In the same room or outdoor area • Within 10 feet of each other, free from obstructions • So that your distance to each speaker is equal Note: Performance may vary based on mobile device, distance and environmental factors. The sound is fantastic in Party Mode. I have not tried them in Stereo Mode yet but plan on doing so later. With Party Mode you get the same sound from both speakers. It is my understanding that in Stereo Mode the music would be split between the two speakers as it would be on your home stereo speakers. If you want better sound from your Alexa item I highly recommend this speaker. Pairing two together is the ultimate sound you can get from your Alexa Item playing through these speakers.

This little speaker is amazing! Amazing sound quality, we use it all the time. (In our workout room, outside on our deck while enjoying our pool, we take it on vacation at the beach, at our son’s baseball games for warmup music. It is loud, connects easily to Bluetooth and battery lasts a long time!