The late great musical icon Prince was, when not enhancing his stature using fancy footwear, just 5 feet 2 inches tall. Angus Young of AC/DC currently clocks in at the same height, whereas pop sensation du jour Sabrina Carpenter barely scrapes into the five-foot club at all. That restricted size, however, didn’t prevent Carpenter from giving the world the 2024 mega-hit Espresso and jamming it into the brains of some What Hi-Fi? writers from now until the end of time.
To employ that awful cliché, it turns out that good things can indeed come in small packages, words that Canadian audio brand Bluesound aims to prove aren’t just an empty platitude. Bluesound unveiled its three new-generation music streamers in 2024 – the premium Node Icon, the affordable Node (2024) and the entry-level Node Nano – and while all three models are compact by design, the Nano is by far the titchiest, and cheapest, of the trio.
