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Bluesound launches the big Pulse Cinema Dolby Atmos soundbar And also the much more compact Pulse Cinema Mini Pulse Cinema: $1,499 / £1,149 | Pulse Cinema Mini: $999 / £799 Bluesound has announced two serious soundbars in a choice of sizes. The flagship Pulse Cinema is a 47-inch-wide model, making it suitable for TVs of 55 inches and up, and the Pulse Cinema Mini is a more compact 33 inches, so should work for TVs of 40 inches and up. Both models are pretty powerful, with Dolby Atmos support, hi-res audio and MQA support, and Bluesound's BluOS multi-room audio platform. BluOS works with over 20 streaming services including TIDAL, Qobuz, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora and Deezer, and it supports hi-res audio up to 24-bit/192kHz. And the speakers can be teamed up with other Bluesound speakers to create a larger, multi-channel surround system. Both soundbars are compatible with home systems from the likes of Control4, Crestron, RTI and others. (Image credit: Bluesound) Bluesound Pulse Cinema and Pulse Cinema Mini: key features and pricing The Pulse Cinema is the star here, with 500 watts of power driving 16 drivers including a center channel, dual four-inch woofers and dedicated upfiring speakers. There's on-board digital signal processing to adjust the audio depending on placement – the soundbar can be wall-mounted as well as sat on a unit – and there's HDMI eARC, optical input, analog RCA inputs, Bluetooth in and out and AirPlay 2. There's also a subwoofer output. This makes it an interestingly expandable competitor to the Sonos Arc Ultra – it adds more analogue inputs, and the subwoofer output means you can connect whatever kind of low-end driver you want, similar to the Marshall Heston 120 . But it also costs more than the Sonos Arc Ultra, so that power will have to really come through in the real-world. The Pulse Cinema Mini is smaller but it still packs a punch: it has 280W of power. There aren't any up-firing Atmos speakers here but there are angled drivers and Atmos 2.1-channel virtualization. Once again there's a subwoofer out, optical and RCA inputs, Bluetooth and AirPlay 2 – and again, this makes it more versatile in some ways than the Sonos Beam 2 , but also more expensive. The Pulse Cinema and Pulse Cinema Mini will be available for pre-order on 24 September 2025 with shipping starting on October 24. The prices are: Pulse Cinema $1,499 / £1,149 / €1,299 (about AU$2,315) Pulse Cinema Mini $999 / £799 / €899 (about AU$1,543) You might also like The best soundbars: TV audio upgrade for all budgets The best Dolby Atmos soundbars for all budgets The best cheap soundbars, all tested by our experts
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