As with all Marshall products, you pay a price for the style, but the audio lives up to expectations. If you're a music fan or just love the classic Marshall guitar amplifier design, this Bluetooth speaker is ready to rock. Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day.

com and our print magazine (if you'd like). Special offer for Gear readers: Get a 1-year subscription to WIRED for $5 ($25 off). Updated June 2022: We've added the Positive Grid Spark Mini, and information about the upcoming KEF LSX II Wireless. Here are our favorites right now.īe sure to check out all our buying guides, including the Best Soundbars, Best Wirefree Earbuds, and Best Smart Speakers. We've tested hundreds of models in the past few years, and we can happily say they are still some of the best small devices you can listen to. They'll also work with any smartphone, and they sound as good as their smart-speaker equivalents. By (mostly) forgoing voice assistants and Wi-Fi radios, Bluetooth speakers gain portability, with the ability to venture outside of your house and withstand rugged conditions like the sandy beach or the steamy Airbnb jacuzzi.

It's fun and easy to ask an Amazon Echo or Google Nest speaker to play your favorite track or tell you the weather, but smart speakers have a few crutches-first and foremost, stable Wi-Fi. The best Bluetooth speakers still have a place near and dear to our hearts, even as we've seen better (and more portable) smart speakers creeping into the universe.

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