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The Wilson Audio WASAE Center speaker ($9,500) is a space saver for a premium price. It uses the same 5.75" mid-woofer and 1" soft-dome Convergent Synergy MK5 tweeter as larger Wilsons. Read on.

Monoprice continues its move into high-end audio with its new Monolith Audition line of loudspeakers, available in tower, bookshelf, and center-channel configurations. The new speakers join an ...

A traditional stereo features sound to the right and the left, but nothing in the middle. The center channel speaker fills that void, providing a full spectrum of sound where you need it most: in the ...

No self-respecting audio enthusiast takes ‘smart’ speakers seriously. The Amazon Echoes and Google Homes of the world are, after all, primarily designed to get you hooked on their respective voice ...

For the last few years Sonos has focused most of its efforts on two categories: portable speakers, like the Move and Roam; and home theater products like the affordable Ray and more extravagant, Atmos ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brad Moon covers audio gear, Apple products and consumer tech. This article is more than 4 years old. One of the things I like ...

There's no denying that the Nest Audio fills a sweet-spot in Google's smart speaker range. Long-anticipated replacement to the original Google Home, the new speaker delivers markedly better sound ...

As with the M126Be speakers, the F226Be and C426Be are very attractive speakers. The only people who would think they are ugly are those who just hate the appearance of speakers, period. I received ...

For the price of a high-end soundbar, you can have a home theater array that delivers a truly immersive and reliable listening experience—provided you can live without Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. Monoprice ...

If you’ve been in a movie theater recently, you may have noticed that the sound is a whole lot more immersive. That’s thanks to spatial audio, a type of surround sound. The most well-known version is ...