Bose S1 Pro+

Bose S1 Pro+ hire in Melbourne. The battery powered speaker for when the nearest power point is in another postcode.

It runs for around 8 hours on a charge, closer to 11 at background music levels and about 5 flat out. It weighs less than a slab and has a three channel mixer on the back, so a microphone, a guitar and a phone over Bluetooth all plug in with nothing else in the chain. Stand it upright, tilt it back, lay it on its side as a monitor or chuck it on a pole. The onboard processing adjusts to however you put it down. For speech, acoustic sets and background music it punches well above its size and one of them covers about 60 people.

The S1 Pro+ gets asked for most by people needing playback speakers, site announcements or the pop up talk nobody mentioned until the morning of. The S1 Pro+ is the one we send every time, because it's the one we use ourselves when a job has no power and we don't want to be running cables all over the place. Set up and pack it down in about a minute. It's also the only Bluetooth speaker we own that we'd put a paying MC in front of.

Good for: pop up talks, site announcements, markets, small acoustic sets and quick setups where running a lead would be a trip hazard or there's no power around.

Or hire the Bose Battery Speaker Wireless Mic Package and get the lot in one line.

Good to know: Amazing for speech and smaller event playback. It's not a full party system and asking it to be one is unfair on the poor little Bose.

What’s Included

• IEC cable
• Canvas tote bag