Apple HomePod

$349 From Apple, apple.com Features Bluetooth, 360 audio

Credit to Apple for so many things here. Since HomePod’s release in February, it has been given software updates to add multiroom playback, stereo pairing with impeccable balance, and a lot more. When running the latest firmware, HomePod offers a great experience; it’s perfectly adept at hearing your commands for Siri, the audio quality is simply excellent, the networking utterly stable, and a HomePod can act as a home hub, negating the need to keep an iPad plugged in and online. So, it’s absolutely the best way to centralize Siri in your home. They are expensive — considering you could fill a home full of Echo devices for the price of one HomePod, you’ll have to really want to buy in to buy one.