BLUETOOTH SPEAKERS
Sonos Roam £159
It’s fair to say Roam wasn’t built in a day. While Sonos doing things in its own time hasn’t dented the multi-room expert’s reputation, it is still perhaps a little surprising that it has taken until 2021 to reveal the brand’s first truly portable outdoor speaker.
This is an off-roading, deep-diving speaker with dimensions and a feature set to rival those from JBL and Ultimate Ears. Given Sonos’s recent run of superb-sounding products, one we can drop in our backpack and take on a ramble has been highly anticipated.
Competitive pricing
The Roam is the most affordable Sonos speaker (if you discount those the company designed in partnership with IKEA a few years ago). It still isn’t what you’d describe as a budget speaker, tipping the scales at £159, but any of its rivals costing less than three figures will struggle to match the Roam’s feature set.