Speaker Reviews
We can all do with more music and, thankfully, tech manufacturers couldn’t be more eager to sell you a speaker, whether it’s a multi-room setup from Sonos, a wireless Bluetooth option from Bose or JBL, or a smart speaker, like the HomePod, Google Home, or Alexa-powered Amazon Echo. Not all of them are good or reasonably priced, but we’ve cut through the overcrowded speaker market and offered a critique to the most popular speakers.
A simple solution for Roku TV owners who want better sound
A $300 neck speaker was always going to be niche, but Bose made a good one
‘Alexa, are you watching me?’
The new Echo’s best feature is its price
A smart speaker for Microsoft’s world
Google answers Amazon’s small Echo with a tiny smart speaker of its own
Ask not what you must do for your gadget
Great sound, but a tough sell if you haven’t already bought into Sonos
The Tap doesn’t capture the charm of Amazon’s other devices
The Wireless Hi-Fi company finally plugs into your TV
A Danish upstart goes head-to-head with the Jawbone Big Jambox and Bose SoundLink
Searching for the best iOS-friendly speaker system out there
Pricing a Bluetooth speaker at $299 is risky business, even for Jawbone. Is bigger, better enough to justify it?
Can Logitech’s little Bluetooth speaker live up to the hype and compete with the Jawbone Jambox?
Can such a tiny speaker really offer “immersive” three-dimensional binaural audio?
The dongle is gone as Libratone fully embraces AirPlay in its speakers