The new HomePod supports Matter, the standard that promises to get rid of walled gardens, but this smart speaker won’t let you entirely escape Apple’s.

Paradigm’s PW Amp can stream high-res audio while correcting your speakers’ and room’s acoustic shortcomings. Canada-based Paradigm has a long, respected pedigree in the high-end audio world ...

Stoneside makes beautiful and luxurious motorized window shades, but its third-party smart technology is not quite as good as what its top competitor offers. The do-it-yourself approach to buying ...

The timing of the news may have been surprising, but the substance was less so. The bigger, pricey HomePod (which Apple promises to continue supporting) has been languishing in a familiar limbo ...

The KEF LS50 Wireless II loom large in the rarified world of compact, ultra-high-performance wireless speakers. With their meticulously detailed, taut, and true sound—and KEF’s long history in ...

The Loxx Boxx is a superior smart delivery box that gets almost everything exactly right. It can’t guarantee that your delivery people will use it to prevent porch pirates, but it does make it ...

The Xumo Stream Box combines streaming and cable into one interface, with mixed results.

Samsung sure upped the ante with the HW-Q950A, a soundbar that arrives with a room-enveloping 11.1.4-channel configuration powered by a whopping 22 drivers. Not quite as big and hulking as you ...

Oozing charm and smarts, the Beosound Level reaches a new plateau in home audio sophistication. Battery power, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth ensure you can take it with you.

The Fluance Ai60 offers spectacular sound quality with amazingly deep bass for far less than I would have expected. They’re large, but definitely in charge! Since 1999, Canadian audio company ...

Improving on the original Google Home in every way, the Nest Audio is the new $100 smart speaker to beat.

The second-generation Phyn Plus is incrementally better than the first, but it’s also more expensive. That said, there is no better way to protect your home from catastrophic water damage caused ...