Bose Home Speaker 300

The Bose Home Speaker 300 delivers room-rocking bass and 360° sound in a space-saving size. With Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa built in, you can enjoy millions of songs, playlists and more with just your voice. And you have the freedom to control the music your way – using your voice, a tap on the top controls, or the Bose Music app. Plus, future software updates will add new features.

The Bose Home Speaker 300 is a compact smart speaker with exceptionally powerful 360° sound. The Bose Smart Speaker 500 is our best-performing smart speaker, a larger speaker with stereo sound aimed left and right to produce the widest sound of any smart speaker. The Smart Speaker 500 also includes an LCD screen to show you what’s playing.

The Bose Home Speaker 300 can play music directly from streaming music services over Wi-Fi®, controlled either by Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, or using the Bose Music app. The Bose Home Speaker 300 also has Bluetooth® capability and a standard 3.5 mm aux line-in jack. Additionally, you can play music on the Bose Home Speaker 300 from the Spotify® app on a smartphone, tablet or computer using Spotify® Connect, and from an Apple device via Apple AirPlay 2 compatibility for streaming content like Apple Music.

Yes. While Wi-Fi is required for direct access to music services along with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, you can still use the Bose Home Speaker 300 via Bluetooth or aux input without connecting it to Wi-Fi.

You can press and hold any of the six preset buttons on the speaker to save the current station/playlist as a preset. Or you can set a preset via the Bose Music app.

Yes. Although the Bose Home Speaker 300 has Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa built in, you can also play music from other sources, such as integrated Wi-Fi music services available through the Bose Music app and through the preset buttons on the speaker. You can also use a Bluetooth or aux connection. All these non-voice sources are available independent of whether the microphones are turned off or whether Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa are enabled.

Yes. The speaker uses the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard.

Yes. Bluetooth makes it easy for anyone to connect a smartphone or other device to the Bose Home Speaker 300 in a familiar way, and allows you the flexibility to play audio from any source, like a YouTube video or a recording saved on a phone or laptop.

No. The speaker must be plugged into a wall socket to function.

To put your speaker into Bluetooth pairing mode, press and hold the Bluetooth source button on the speaker for several seconds (the light bar will begin pulsing blue). Then go to your mobile device’s Bluetooth settings, ensure it is available for connection, and select the Bose Home Speaker 300 from the list.

After you have initially paired with a Bluetooth device, you can simply tap the Bluetooth button on the speaker once to reconnect to the last connected device. You can also easily reconnect previously connected mobile devices from their Bluetooth settings page, and you can use the Bose Music app to reconnect or manage your speaker’s paired device list at any time.

You can also use the Bose Music app to put your speaker into Bluetooth pairing mode by simply selecting Bluetooth as the speaker’s source in the app. Then go to your mobile device’s Bluetooth settings and select the Bose Home Speaker 300 from the list.

No. Only one mobile device can be connected to the Bose Home Speaker 300 at a time via Bluetooth. However, it’s easy to switch between devices using the Bose Music app or the Bluetooth settings on the selected device.

Yes. The Bose Home Speaker 300 can remember multiple Wi-Fi networks and passwords.

The Bose Home Speaker 300 contains one proprietary Bose full-range driver positioned to fire downwards into an acoustic deflector. This design allows the speaker to produce incredibly smooth and spacious 360° sound. Proprietary digital signal processing enables the Bose Home Speaker 300, a mono speaker, to preserve and reproduce more of a recording’s original stereo audio content when compared to other mono speakers. Proprietary digital signal processing also enables the Bose Home Speaker 300 to maximise audio output from its small size and to produce surprisingly deep bass, leveraging an advanced acoustic port design with Bose’s innovative QuietPort technology.

Yes. Using Alexa only, you can directly call Bose smart products, Amazon Echo products and anyone in your contacts list. Simply say, “Alexa, call Mum”, to initiate a call. Or say “Alexa, answer”, to accept an incoming call. You do not need your phone to make or take a call, and it’s free of charge. However, when calling products, both parties are required to have this feature set up and must be on Wi-Fi in order to use it.

Currently, Amazon Alexa works with QC35 headphones II, Headphones 700, Home Speaker 300, Smart Speaker 500, Portable Smart Speaker, Smart Soundbar 300, Soundbar 500, and Smart Soundbar 700.

Yes. Although the Bose Home Speaker 300 does not have an LCD display to show the time, you can use Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa to ask for the time, timers and alarms.

Yes. Bass and treble can be adjusted via the settings menu in the Bose Music app.

No. The Bose Bass Module 500, Bose Bass Module 700 and Bose Surround Speakers can only be added to the Bose Soundbar 500 and Bose Smart Soundbar 700.

Yes. The Bose Home Speaker 300 can play in synchronised multi-room groups with additional Bose Home Speaker 300 units, or with the Bose Smart Speaker 500, the Bose Soundbar 500 or the Bose Smart Soundbar 700. However, you cannot play synchronised multi-room content across the Bose Home Speaker 300 and either Bose SoundTouch products or products from other manufacturers (including Google or Amazon).

No. The Bose Home Speaker 300 uses the Bose Music app for setup, control, and music browsing, while Bose SoundTouch products use the SoundTouch app. The Bose Home Speaker 300 works in synchronised multi-room groups with any combination of additional Bose Home Speaker 300 units, the Bose Smart Speaker 500, the Bose Soundbar 500 or the Bose Smart Soundbar 700.

However, the Bose Home Speaker 300, Bose Smart Speaker 500, Bose Soundbar 500 and Bose Smart Soundbar 700 can interoperate with SoundTouch to some extent through Alexa. There are no plans to update SoundTouch to be compatible through Google Assistant in a similar fashion.

With Alexa, users can speak to the Bose Home Speaker 300, Bose Smart Speaker 500, Bose Soundbar 500 or Bose Smart Soundbar 700 to initiate or control music on any SoundTouch speaker in their home. This requires that the user has enabled the Bose smart home skill for SoundTouch in the Alexa app. For example, a user can ask Alexa on their Soundbar 500 to “Play the Beatles on my Living room SoundTouch 20” or “Turn off the Kitchen SoundTouch 10”. This feature still does not allow the Bose Smart Speaker 500, Bose Soundbar 500 and Bose Smart Soundbar 700 to be grouped with SoundTouch products for synchronised multi-room playback.

The Bose Home Speaker 300, along with the Bose Smart Speaker 500, the Bose Soundbar 500 and the Bose Smart Soundbar 700 (and future products), is one of the new smart speakers from Bose that include new acoustics with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa built in, and are compatible with the Bose Music app for setup and control of integrated Wi-Fi music services.

Bose SoundTouch speakers are a broader family of Wi-Fi speakers that provide Bose quality sound with easy access to your music. SoundTouch products use the Bose SoundTouch app for setup and control of integrated Wi-Fi music services. SoundTouch speakers do not have Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa built in, although they may be controlled by voice using separate devices like the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot.

In terms of acoustic performance, the Bose Home Speaker 300 produces deeper bass and a 360° lifelike sound when compared to the similarly sized SoundTouch 10.

Yes. You can cast audio content to your group of Bose smart speakers or soundbars through the Bose Music app or on the products themselves. Start by creating a group in the Bose Music app and casting to that group, or by pressing and holding the Action button on the connecting device to pair them into a group that’s playing a cast stream. Group your ground floor speakers, or all the speakers in the house and get the party started.