You'll be drawn into emotive vocals, punchy bass and tactile guitar plucks and everything in between with whatever song you throw at them. We test each Bluetooth speaker in a range of environments and against its chief competitors too, so you know that the product will work just as well in the great outdoors as it does in your home.

It's a remarkable trick, and one that had us wanting to test more and more tracks to see what the Prodigy 5 could do with them. jack with an adapter, multi-room support including through the Sonos control app, a 24-hour battery life, and you can charge your phone from it.we review hundreds of products every year, including no small amount of speakers of all shapes, sizes and types. The A1 is the first speaker to offer Alexa support without needing to be connected to your home Wi-Fi network – and while this is impressive in itself, we did find that the voice assistant was sometimes quite slow to respond to our commands, since it's routing over Bluetooth to your phone, and your phone is then making the request over whatever internet connection it has… which won't always be great.

We have state-of-the-art testing facilities in London, Reading and Bath, where our team of expert reviewers do all our in-house testing. Part hard science, part soft aesthetics, plenty are hoodwinked by expensive looks only to be let down by sound quality. Although we found the audio quality to be excellently balanced with great detail, the stereo sound wasn't very convincing, but that's okay. Get harmony into your life with a perfect balance of furnishing knowledge and audio expertise that absolutely hits the right note.It's a huge step up from the MAT-less R3 (a previous five-star model) in terms of refinement, crystal-clear vocals and dynamism. KEF's new MAT ( Meta Material Absorption Technology) innovation has been elevating the performance of its most recent speakers (the Award-winning LS50 Meta above is a prime example), so it was only a matter of time before the tech was integrated into its 2023 R Series of speakers. There are no sales teams involved in our verdicts, which means if we don't like it for sound, design, usability and features, we simply won't recommend it.