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Speakers

Speakers are foundational to the way we enjoy music from Spotify, Apple Music, and other services — and our own music collections. And increasingly, they’re also a convenient way of controlling smart home devices compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, or Siri. Companies like Sonos offer multiroom audio platforms capable of synchronizing music across speakers of all different sizes. Whether you’re looking for a smart speaker or a simple Bluetooth speaker to take everywhere, The Verge covers the best of what’s out there in 2025.

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Chris Welch
Chris Welch
Party speaker season is upon us.

LG’s latest party speaker, the beefy XBoom XL7, is now available for $599.99. You’re getting a 250-watt system with 20 hours of battery life, an 8-inch woofer, and IPX4 water resistance. It’s got the built-in telescoping handle and wheels for keeping the party moving. Karaoke mode? Obviously.

But the real draw, as usual, is all the customizable lighting. The woofer ring lights up, but that’s old hat. This thing does text and even full-on animations. I challenge someone to get The Verge logo on there.

Your move, Sony.

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Brandon Widder and Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Sonos Era 300 review: too ahead of its time

When you find a good spatial audio song, Sonos’ new speaker can blow your mind and sounds like nothing else. But it trails the Sonos Five at stereo playback and suffers from the wildly inconsistent state of Atmos mixes.

Chris Welch
Sonos Era 100 review: the new default smart speaker

The more affordable Era speaker improves upon the Sonos One by nearly every measure and will likely find the same success and popularity among Sonos customers.

Chris Welch
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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Sonos execs talk about the new Era 100 and Era 300.

Giles Martin, the senior vice president of sound experience at Sonos who mixed the first-ever spatial audio album, and Sonos CEO Patrick Spence joined Nilay Patel for a Vergecast interview about the company’s new speakers and make a case for spatial audio.

Martin:

...we can project sound and because we have channels of projection. Spatial audio is multichannel, stereo is two-channel, mono is one-channel.

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Giles Martin and Sonos CEO Patrick Spence believe this is the moment for spatial audio

They join The Vergecast to discuss Sonos’ new Era 300 and 100 speakers, the ins and outs of spatial audio, and why this is the time to get behind it.

Andru Marino
Sonos Era 300 and Era 100 first look: you’re gonna want to hear these speakers
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Available for preorder today and shipping March 28th, both speakers make a good first impression with new features and upgraded sound.

Chris Welch
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Oh, there’s something new on the way from Sonos?

This Reddit post shows an email announcing an event in four days time, and I think you can guess what we expect to see.

Namely, a spatial audio-focused Era 300 that should cost around $450 and an Era 100 speaker priced around $250, both with Bluetooth audio playback and USB-C line-in.

Read Chris Welch’s full report here for the details we have so far, and if you’re looking for current Sonos hardware check out their ongoing sale.

r/sonos - New products launching in 4 days!

[reddit]

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Ikea’s new cover art for its Sonos wall speaker is simply stunning.

The three new covers for the Sonos-collab Symfonisk picture frame speaker are inspired by Latin American street art.

The covers snap onto the speaker and add some much-needed color to the current options. I love to see more adventurous decor in the smart home — and don’t forget, you can pair two of these speakers with a Sonos Arc or Beam sound bar for surround sound with some serious style. The new covers go on sale in April.

Diana Ordóñez’ print on a Symfonisk picture frame speaker is inspired by the colorful masks of Colombian carnival.
Diana Ordóñez’ print on a Symfonisk picture frame speaker is inspired by the colorful masks of Colombian carnival.
Image: Ikea
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Alex Cranz
Alex Cranz
Here are even more images of the not-yet-announced new Sonos speakers.

Hours after our own Chris Welch revealed what will likely be Sonos’s next two speakers, a leaker has tweeted what appear to be additional images of the Era 100 and Era 300. You can check out all the images in the thread. Sadly there is not a 3.5mm port in sight.

More images of the Era 100 and Era 300

[Twitter]

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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The new HomePod is apparently much easier to take apart.

Check out iFixit’s take on the second-generation speaker in its latest teardown. And after you do, check out our review we posted last week.

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Chris Welch
Chris Welch
It takes two.

Apple’s second-generation HomePod is available starting today. And the consensus in our review and others I’ve seen is that while one HomePod speaker sounds pretty good solo, it’s when you pair two of them together that you experience the best, most immersive audio.

Creating a stereo pair with two HomePods only takes a few steps. Just remember that you can only do so with two of the same model.

How to stereo pair two Apple HomePods

Chris Welch
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