Customer Ratings & Reviews

This speaker has great sound & projection of the sound. It is quite the powerful little speaker! I love it! It played Amazon music, Pandora & my own music with no problem! I tried all sorts of music, meditation, rock, pop, country - it all sounds good. Another feature I like is the ability to allow the time to be viewed. It also shows the song that’s playing & whose singing it when playing from Pandora etc. The only slight drawbacks are the short power cord & it took me awhile to figure out how to adjust the base setting (go to the little picture of the speaker in the app). The setup was pretty easy. At 1st my wifi & bluetooth & speaker didn't all sync, once I restarted everything - it was fine!

very fragile, fell off my night table and the top came off; no longer working.

Wouldn’t work Took to geek squad Couldn’t get it to work!!

Everything I’ve ever come to expect out of a Bose speaker, it’s like Alexa on Steroids. I have 24 food ceilings, sounds amazing even on the lowest listening levels. A little pricey, well this is one of the times you get what you pay for.

This is a awesome product the sound is fantastic and so clear, I love the picture on the screen, I love playing music while at home and this is the best product to play anything on, having Alexa to use is a big plus!

The quality of the sound is great and the design is awesome.

veey nice product from Bose. The bass and treble are really good and it’s good for trips. Easy to carry. It sets up really easy and simple and I love the way it makes my music sounds. Integration with Alexa is also good.

If you're looking for a single speaker that can turn your living room into an orchestral oasis, the Bose Home Speaker 500 is one of the best options on the market. The Bose Home Speaker 500 produced the crispest clarity and some of the most powerful bass, resulting in an expressive soundscape that hangs drama and emotion on every note. Add in all the functionality that comes with built-in Alexa capabilities, a convenient Bluetooth connection, and enough volume to power any party you'd like to throw, and you have a speaker with almost no downsides. I was pleasantly surprised at the Home Speaker 500's ability to clearly define and separate every note in music ranging from EDM to rock to classical to acoustic. Even in complex melodies, every instrument was clearly identifiable, occupying the exact space on the score it was meant to. This made the listening experience akin to a live concert, where every sound and note can be clearly attributed to a specific instrument and musician. This incredible clarity also makes podcasts feel like someone is actually in the room talking next to you. The Home Speaker 500 grounds that clarity with very powerful and punchy bass. With clear, booming bass and incredible definition, the Home Theater 500 tends to bring out the best of whatever music you like to listen to. It is both the best sounding and most versatile speaker I've listened to. The Home Theater 500 offers pretty much all of the features one could want, and easy ways to control them. Whether you want to play music over the Bluetooth connection, stream over WiFi using the Bose app, just tell the built-in Alexa to play a song, or physically hook up a device using the auxiliary input, we found the Home Speaker 500 incredibly easy to use. The built-in Alexa works just as you would expect it to on an Amazon built device and adds a lot of functionality to the experience (it's nice to be able to ask your speaker how cold it is outside and get a response). The small LCD screen even displays album artwork for a number of streaming services, adding a nice touch to the listening experience. The Home Speaker 500's 360˚ design is meant to flood all corners of a room with immersive sound, and it succeeds. Even in large open spaces with a lot of people, the Home Theater 500 can keep the party going. The Home Speaker 500 offers all the connectivity you could want, including Bluetooth, WiFi, a 3.5mm auxiliary in, and of course smart commands provided by Alexa. This is one area where Bose offers the Bluetooth connectivity that other speakers lack. At $400 the Bose Home Theater 500 is a speaker that can completely knock your socks off when it comes to sound quality and volume, which makes this speaker well worth the price. The Bose Home Speaker 500 is the best home wireless and smart speaker on the market for those that want a single-speaker system. .

I purchase my Bose home speaker 500 this pass September. Its purpose was to extend a shared sound from my Bose 300. Alexa can make my 300 and/or my Bose 10 soundtouch item(s) play but will not play in sync with them because its not a soundtouch product. With the cost/technology today, I was expecting for this configuration to work. I even tried connecting the soundtouch link adapter to Bose home speaker 500, but still the Alexa doesn't play with other Bose speakers. It may work with a newer soundbar i.e. the 500 or 700, but that's not in the plan to purchase. The Bose app and Alexa app have been useful, just wish someone would have made Alexa more compatible with the Bose soundtouch products. P.S. Great sound and would still recommend it to a friend as long as they don't need it to play along with other soundtouch speakers. Still trying to figure it out so my Bose 500 home speaker will not be considered a waste.

Love this speaker! It packs a punch. Clear sound and easily switched between devices. We love it indoors and out. Highly recommend for entertaining.

Love the size & sound! Speaker sounds great! My husband loves it!

I am a big Fan of Bose. You can't really help but fall in love with their brand . I have no complaints about this speaker and would recommend this to anyone who is a fan of quality.

Bose sound quality with the convenience of Alexa. Small footprint matte black speaker that looks great on my counter, and the sound still fills my living room. One con is that the speaker is largely adjusted via the Bose Music app, which inherently locks to only a few music services. So if you have Spotify free, unfortunately the speaker only works with Spotify premium. Being an Alexa-capable speaker, obviously the Amazon music services are seamlessly integrated.

The sound is amazing and it's a perfect size for home and outdoors

This speaker has exceeded my expectations for something so small. I put this speaker on the second floor of my house and it radiates sound perfectly throughout the house...even with the door closed. Easy to connect with my iPhone with the app via bluetooth. Can speak commands to it via Amazon Alexa. Can even control the volume from the app as well as put it in standby mode. This speaker is awesome!

I love this speaker. It was easy to set up with Bose supplied instructions and the Bose app makes managing my steaming music a breeze. My vinyl and CD’s are on their way out the door!

This was great. The sound was great like any Bose device and I loved Alexa. Sadly the setup was absolutely horrible, it did not sync with my app and still now I can't connect to my music services. Really, the horrible setup has prevented me from really loving this machine like I want to.

Great sound and awesome item I really recommend it to anyone you can move it anywhere anytime I can’t be more that please with this machine

I expected this speaker to be very good and it didn't disappoint. Out of the box it took 5 minutes to pair it with my phone and add their software and I was listening to my music. I love the Bose Home Speaker 500. It is a great addition to my home and will provides full, rich sound.

Works very well,the sound is outstanding we can hear the music everywhere