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Roku announces an all-in-one sound bar and optional subwoofer
Each costs $179. Preorders have begun now, with shipping in October.
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Should you buy the Wonderboom or Wonderboom 2?
Ultimate Ears' Wonderboom is one of the best portable speakers on the market thanks to its affordable price and robust sound. Now, the Wonderboom 2 has arrived with even more features. Here are all the major differences.
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Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 review: The perfect portable speaker
Ultimate Ears has been making fantastic portable speakers for a while now, but with the Wonderboom 2, it has reached a new level of sound.
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The Wonderboom 2 comes in some hot colors
When you’re sitting by the pool this summer, get the party started with Ultimate Ears’ new Wonderboom 2.
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Bose announces tiny home speaker, launches support for Google Assistant
Bose on Tuesday announced the Home Speaker 300, a tiny new speaker coming in June for $260. The speaker weighs just two pounds and stands at just over six inches tall.
Sonos is planning to make high-end headphones
For those who've always wanted the experience of Sonos outside of the home, the wait could soon be over as Sonos is actively developing premium headphones.
Google Confirms Chromecast Audio Has Been Discontinued
At CES 2019, Google was busy adding exciting new features to Assistant, as well as announcing new partnerships to bring the platform to more devices. All in all, it was a good week for Google, but it’s ending on a down note. The search giant on Friday confirmed plans to discontinue Chromecast Audio, a device that enabled users to stream audio apps through older speaker setups. Since...
25 Gift Ideas for Your Audiophile
Unless you're truly hardcore music fan, most of us get our music through our phones nowadays. When it's not thorugh our phones, it's through our computers. iPods have largely gone extinct, and the Zune is the butt of a joke in a Marvel movie. And forget about that iRiver MP3 player I was rocking back in college. Despite that, there are still about a million different ways to listen to...
JBL Xtreme 2 review: Booty-Shaking Bass Comes at a Price
We already have a party rock anthem, but we need a speaker to play it on. Something small enough to take to the party, but big enough to fill it up. That's the JBL Xtreme 2, the follow-up to, you guessed it, the JBL Xtreme. The barrel-shaped sound launcher combines rugged portability and solid audio, but not without a couple compromises. Most noticeably, the $250-plus price tag. Build...
MegaBoom 3 review: UE Perfects its Bluetooth Speaker
Ultimate Ears has been making Bluetooth speakers for many years now. It first started with the original Boom back in 2013 and has been going strong ever since, adding incremental upgrades with each new line. Recently, it introduced the Boom 3 and MegaBoom 3, the newest variants of its popular Boom line, and they are easily the best speakers UE has ever made. I've been reviewing the UE...