The battery-operable Beosound Level proves you can take it with you—at least in this life. Its beautiful design will have your heirs fighting over who gets it when you’re gone. Without a doubt, the ...

Suffering cabin fever? Need an escape? Internet radio can fling open the doors. Whisper a few call letters into a smart speaker, summon a smartphone app, or tap a few computer keys to be whisked far, ...

Improving on the original Google Home in every way, the Google Nest Audio is the new $100 smart speaker to beat. The replacement for Google’s original, now discontinued smart speaker is here, and ...

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, where it ...

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 for ...

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 by a ...

Ambient Weather’s WS-5000 home weather station is a significant improvement over its earlier and excellent WS-2902. It’s worth the extra cash if you can afford it. We’ve observed a dramatic increase ...

If you’re looking for a compact soundbar that won’t break the bank, and you’re eager to jump into (or already invested in) the Sonos ecosystem, the second-gen Sonos Beam makes for a great choice. Last ...

We’ve come a long way since the era of the cellar book, when wine bottles had to be logged by hand in paperbound tomes and tracked by little tags hanging from their necks. The wine world is actively ...

The new Ultra is Roku’s best streaming player yet, but there’s a lot more room for improvement. How much do you value a few extra buttons? That’s the main question you must ask yourself when deciding ...

Broadcasters want you to know they’re not out to kill over-the-air DVR. The industry group A3SA, which is in charge of digital rights management (DRM) for ATSC 3.0, released a specification this week ...

Just as promised, Eve Systems rolled out an update last week that will let you upgrade select Eve devices to Matter, the new standard that’s supposed to make Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Home, and ...