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I'm Christine Zier-Cleset. I'm Kyra Blackwell. I'm Rosie Garron, and you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

This episode is called Level Up Your Sound System.

Hey, team.

I've been shopping.

For shocking. No, it is. I have to say, since starting to work here, I think I have shopped less. But I've actually, I've been shopping recently for a new speaker setup in my apartment. Tell us more. You know, I'm a big, I'm indoctrinating my children in the sense that like we dance as often as possible.

We dance through the decades, if not evening, dance parties, certainly weekly.

Their vibes are great.

However, we only have one kind of main speaker in our living space.

And so I've been thinking about maybe Sonos or maybe some kind of connected system. Don't do it. Don't do the Sonos.

Christina's scar. Don't be suckered into it. I just find it kind of problematic. Well, that's the thing. I'm kind of like, I don't quite know what my

options are. And I know that Wirecutter has done a lot of coverage on speakers. And I would like something great, something that, like, is going to sound great in our space.

But I also really don't want to spend that much money.

But you don't have to.

No.

I actually, we bought some speakers this year.

And we got some for under 200.

It was really great, a paired set. But yeah, we kind of had gone through this similar situation, Rosie, where we had like something in our living room, something in our kitchen, nothing connected. And it was like kind of annoying, right? Like you want to be able to turn on the music and have it like pumping. Right. Yeah. We have, I've like, I cobbled together or I've collected maybe a better way to put it, like these little Bluetooth speakers that I can sort of put around the house.

But it's time for an upgrade.

Yeah.

There's just so many options.

And sometimes you need a guide, right?

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