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B&O Beosound Balance

£1,750 bang-olufsen.com

Being Bang & Olufsen, the Beosound Balance clearly isn’t after the Echo Dot’s end of the smart speaker market; this aims to be the best smart speaker for music out there. However, the fact it costs not far off 10 times what most of its rivals do means it will have to gun very damn hard to justify someone choosing it over them.

It probably won’t surprise you to learn that the Beosound Balance sounds fantastic. As you

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