

While my library is centered around guitar music and Motown-era R&B, my colleague and fellow Wonderboom owner Jordan Bowman says his rotation has “a lot of hip-hop, grime, and reggae” that sounds just as great pumped from the speaker. And it plays whatever music I tell it to with clarity and depth. It also doesn’t listen to what I’m saying and then serve me related ads on Instagram two minutes later. Unlike the “smart” speakers I mentioned, it doesn’t shout at me out of nowhere when it mishears its name, or when the Wi-Fi drops. First, it pairs faster than any of those.


I’ve had my Wonderboom 2 (the latest generation) since the summer of 2019, and all of the other speakers that have since come into my life - from a Google Nest to a Google Home to an Amazon Alexa to a JBL Clip - have only made me love it more.
