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Product of the Year 2025, Best Music Streamer £750-£1000 – What Hi-Fi? Magazine
Best Multiroom Streamer Award, 2025-2026 – EISA
Best Bang-for-Your-Buck Music Server / Streamer / DAC 2025 - Robb Report
Best Streamer/DACs Under $1000 Award - The Absolute SoundMagazine
Best in Class Award - avsforums.com
Best Buy Award - the-ear.net
Flagship Wireless Streamer for the Audio Obsessed, Now with Direct Live Capability
The NODE ICON is Bluesound's flagship wireless music streamer, designed for the audio obsessed, when lesser streamers simply will not do.
With its sleek aluminum chassis and vibrant 5" full-color display, the NODE ICON sets a new benchmark for wireless music streamers. Seamlessly connect it to any premium amplifier, powered speakers, or headphones, and enjoy BluOS hi-res streaming, Apple AirPlay 2, THX AAA™ technology, and more. With HDMI eARC, Dolby Digital and Dirac Live Ready, you can also transform the way you experience music and TV with Dolby downmixing and state-of-the-art room correction technology.
"Bluesound’s ambition to reach higher up the streamer market pays off – its flagship Node Icon is the most entertaining and flexible option at this price," notes Becky Roberts, What Hi-Fi? magazine, November 10, 2025.
New! Dirac Live Support
For a nice upgrade in sound quality in your listening space, Bluesound has just introduced Dirac Live, the industry-leading room correction technology, to the NODE ICON and the NODE Performance Music Streamers. These are the world's first streamers to support Dirac Live with the firmware update that was released on January 14, 2025.
You can access these DIRAC READY products with the purchase of a Room Calibration Kit and a Dirac Live license (both optional, sold separately), ensuring optimized audio performance regardless of room acoustics. See below for more information on this exciting new feature.
"Best Multiroom Streamer… A Triumph"
The Expert Sound and Imaging Association (EISA) gave the NODE ICON its Best Multiroom Streamer Award for 2025-2026.
"Evolved from Bluesound’s NODE and NODE NANO streamers, the flagship NODE ICON deploys a new dual-mono DAC stage that delivers excellent sound quality from wired and wireless sources, and debuts a 5in, full-colour display… Easy to use, gorgeously styled and packed with features, Bluesound’s newest NODE is a triumph."
Award-Winning Performance
The NODE ICON received a Best Streamer/DACs Under $1000 Award from The Absolute Sound magazine. According to reviewer Tom Martin on YouTube.com, January 31, 2025, "The Bluesound Node Icon is very, very good streamer/DAC, simply judging it on its basic features, though I think those are core features for the usage scenario most people will have. When you consider the other options, it seems like a steal…. That's just the icing on the cake, and a very good cake it is."
The NODE ICON also grabbed a Best Buy Award from the-ear.net. In his January 7, 2025 review, Chris Baillie reports, "The Bluesound Node Icon has achieved its brief as a superior streamer in the sub-four-figure market segment and one that it is worth stretching your budget for, especially if you intend to use the internal DAC.
The Node Icon earned a Best Music Streamer £750-£1000 Award for 2025 from What Hi-Fi? magazine. "Bluesound’s flagship streamer is a triumph, with an engaging, musical performance that delights along with a fuss-free, stable streaming platform and sturdy, compact build."
"One of the Most User-Friendly in the Industry"
The NODE ICON grabbed the Best Bang-for-Your-Buck Music Server / Streamer / DAC Award 2025 from the Robb Report.
"Building a capable digital-based system needn’t require a second mortgage. Bluesound’s best wireless music streamer features dual high-resolution DACs in dual-mono configuration, a built-in headphone amp, and five-inch HD display. The elegant aluminum chassis offers a full suite of connections, including balanced XLR outputs."
"Connect to a pair of active loudspeakers and you’re on your way with music. The BluOS wireless ecosystem is one of the most user-friendly in the industry and is shared with all NAD and NAD Masters products, too..."
Benchmark Sound Quality
The NODE ICON is the best streamer Bluesound has ever built. It relies on a masterfully engineered Bluesound Dual-Mono design with two ESS SABRE® ES9039Q2M DAC chipsets. It uses the latest fourth generation ESS Hyperstream® technology to let you experience sound with superior dynamic range, ultra-low distortion, and the highest possible resolution ever heard.
Beautifully Designed for the Audio Obsessed
The NODE ICON features an all-new industrial design, with an aluminum cabinet construction, seamlessly integrated with the large front glass panel, and the gorgeous 5" non-touch display. Its sleek gloss black finish blends seamlessly into any existing setup, with audiophile-grade connections to support high-quality performance. It also features built-in IR learning and a proximity-sensing touch panel that provides quick control and access for up to five programmable presets, along with volume and playback controls.
Best in Class Award
The NODE ICON won a Best in Class Award from avsforums.com, which notes, "It's a gutsy move to call a product Icon... but Bluesound largely gets away with it. Yes, in specific areas, certain rivals can do specific things better but, as a device to use and live with, it's a peerless combination of features, performance and user-friendliness and an absolute class act."
"The ICON takes everything that Bluesound has been doing convincingly for some years and then boosts the performance and mates it with enough new features to ensure that the company has ensured that they can take the fight to anything else under a grand. This is a blend of technology, performance and user friendliness that is hard not to admire. The result has to be seen as the current Best in Class."
"A Reference Streamer in Every Sense"
"The Bluesound NODE ICON takes an already excellent streamer and elevates it with richer dynamics and superb sonic clarity. It’s a no-brainer for audiophiles looking for top-tier performance without breaking the bank, observes What Hi-Fi? magazine, September 26, 2024.
"With its refined soundstage and upgraded DAC, the NODE ICON delivers a performance that rivals far more expensive competitors. It’s a reference streamer in every sense," notes Sound&Vision magazine, December 12, 2024.
Stream Everything
Stream all the music ever recorded, from popular music streaming services to your own digital music libraries, and access everything you listen to, including hi-res FLAC, MQA and DSD 256, in the BluOS app. Apple AirPlay 2 and aptX™ Adaptive Bluetooth® are also built-in to let you enjoy even more music from more apps and services.
With HDMI eARC, you can easily connect the NODE ICON to your TV with a single cable and bring hi-res music streaming together with your movie and gaming experiences.
Digital Music, Internet Radio, Podcasts, and More
From popular music streaming services to radio stations and podcasts, the NODE ICON connects you to everything you love to listen to. Plus, with two-way aptXT™ Adaptive Bluetooth and Apple AirPlay 2 built in, you can enjoy music from even more apps and services, including Spotify Connect, TIDAL Connect, and Qobuz. Connect the NODE ICON to digital music libraries stored on your computer or local network, and effortlessly browse and stream from your collection using the BluOS app.
Roon Ready
Roon brings all your music together, so you don’t have to worry about where it’s stored, what format it’s in, or where you stream it from. Roon supports music files stored on internal and external hard drives and NAS, your iTunes library, live radio stations, and streamed content from TIDAL and Qobuz.
Convenient Voice Control
With support for the most popular voice assistants, including Apple’s Siri and Amazon Alexa, control is more convenient that ever. Every supported voice assistant gives you easy, hands-free control over the music in your home so you can pause the music when the phone rings or ask what song is playing, all with your voice.
BluVoice, which is the BluOS voice engine, controls all Bluesound Players – no matter which generation you have at home – bringing the latest tech to the speakers and systems that you love and continue to get better with every update. Set up a default room and use quick and easy voice commands to control your music using the long list of BluVoice custom commands. For example, you can use voice commands to play saved playlists, select your favorite radio station, adjust volume levels, or even group players together and play your music in perfect sync throughout the house.
Total Control of Music in Every Room
With the NODE ICON and multiple Bluesound players, you can create a multi-room music system wirelessly connected by BluOS™ throughout your whole home. With dual-band Wi-Fi for dropout free listening, you can play your new favorite track everywhere or listen to different music and genres in different rooms with total control from your phone, tablet, or desktop.
World-Class Headphone Amplifier Technology
Lifelike headphone listening is made possible by THX AAA™ technology, the headphone amplifier that boasts the world's most linear response. Its patented feed-forward error correction results in remarkably low noise and distortion, revealing exceptional soundstage and clarity. Connect your high-performance headphones to a full-sized 1/4" headphone jack and enjoy audiophile listening with zero compromise.
Smart Acoustics with Dirac Live
With the firmware update that was released on January 14, 2025, the NODE ICON and the NODE Performance Music Streamers come ready to intelligently fight bad room acoustics with Dirac Live, available as an upgrade directly from Dirac (optional, sold separately).
Use Dirac's app to measure your room acoustics and eradicate bass traps, echoes, and other unwanted distortions from your audio. The result is clear, balanced, and detailed sound for your music and movie soundtracks. A calibration kit with a high-sensitivity microphone is also required and available from Bluesound (optional, sold separately).
Enjoy a Dirac Live Listening Experience
Dirac Live is a digital room calibration solution designed to optimize your sound systems and counterbalance the challenges presented by the room’s acoustic properties. It optimizes the audio by compensating for distortions caused by the acoustics of your room.
When integrated with an AVR, music streamer/player, and other compatible gear, Dirac Live measures the acoustic characteristics of your space using a calibrated microphone (sold separately), analyzing how sound interacts with the room. It then adjusts the speaker’s output to ensure that the sound is balanced and true-to-source, regardless of the room’s shape, size, or materials.
Contrary to basic EQ systems that mainly flatten the frequency response, Dirac Live corrects both the frequency and impulse response. This means it not only addresses tonal balance, but it also ensures that transient sounds (like a clap or a drum hit) are reproduced cleanly without smearing or delay.
By using Dirac Live, you’re essentially enhancing the potential of your sound system to perform as it would in an acoustically perfect environment, making the sound more realistic and detailed, even in challenging spaces.
New! Support for Qobuz Connec
Big news for music lovers! Starting September 2025, BluOS supports Qobuz Connect, making it easier than ever to enjoy your favorite tracks in stunning hi-resolution.
With this update, you’ll be able to stream directly from the Qobuz app to any BluOS-enabled device from Bluesound, NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, Cyrus Audio, DALI Speakers, and Monitor Audio — all at up to 24-bit/192 kHz quality.
Browse, search, and play right inside the Qobuz app, while BluOS handles what it does best: seamless, reliable multi-room playback. You’ll still manage speaker grouping and volume inside the BluOS app, but control of music selection is now right at your fingertips in Qobuz.
