When looking for the best smart devices for your home or gifts for your friends, you may come across both the terms: “Bluetooth speaker” and “smart speaker.” The differences aren’t immediately ...

Smart speakers and Bluetooth speakers are both typically portable, and rely on wireless connections to play music. Regular bluetooth speakers just connect to your phone or computer to play audio, and ...

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The Bose Portable Smart Speaker is our pick for the best Bluetooth speaker overall award within our tested best Bluetooth speaker roundup. Read on to learn why we recommend it. Out of the 10 Bluetooth ...

There can be a natural gravity towards smart speakers if you’re shopping for home audio in 2022. Voice and casting controls are inherently useful — even Sonos has its own voice assistant, now — and ...

The JBL Link 20 Smart Portable Bluetooth Speaker (currently $99.99 on Best Buy) comes a little cheaper than other portable Bluetooth speakers out there, but it doesn't skimp on features. The speaker ...

One of the Google Nest features I use the most is also among the simplest. Yes, Google Assistant smart devices are great at a lot of stuff -- calculating math problems, reporting the weather and ...

You know you’ve got the best smart speaker when it’s incredibly responsive to your voice commands and provides great audio. But while having excellent audio quality is important — it’s still a speaker ...

Fine build materials and Alexa voice control don’t compensate for mediocre sound quality, which in turn does not justify such a steep price tag. Portable Bluetooth speakers come in all shapes, sizes, ...

One of the biggest problems facing speaker manufacturers is getting sufficient bass out of a less-than-sufficient space. Good, deep bass sound requires a lot of space to push sufficient amounts of air ...