"Alexa, play some new Trance music," a simple call that I make to the Amazon Echo Plus speaker at home every evening. At some point, my wife would chime in with a request for Alexa to play her Zumba playlist, and eventually, the parents would demand some order be restored with some Hindi pop or...

The Bose Home Speaker 500 is one of the best sounding smart speakers in the market at the moment....

The Bose Home Speaker 500 is one of the best sounding smart speakers in the market at the moment, and there are not a lot of choices in this segment for now. But this if you want to stream high-quality music just the way you like to hear it. The Indian Express is now on Telegram.

Amazon has always maintained that it wants other companies to use its Alexa voice assistant in their devices. That's probably why it's left the speakers somewhat weak in terms of audio quality.

This was a mothers day gift. She loves the sound that memics a full and expensive home theater, and the ease of use. I set it up so she can play music and books from audiobooks, Pandora, Deezer, Spotify, Apple and Amazon prime

Bought this lovely speaker a few weeks ago and very glad that I did. Compact size and fantastic sound that you come to expect from Bose. I also used Myer's Click & Collect service which was extremely easy and convenient to use. Thanks again Myer :)

Best house warming present from my in laws. It is sure a great little system and the sound it pumps out is amazing

This thing sounds great and is solidly built, but it's user interface is terrible. I got it for our kitchen to connect with the TV. I have it connected to the AUX port and if I shut down the TV, after about 15 minutes, it shuts itself off too.

I am a long time Bose consumer (at least for my lifetime)...the Bose sound/speakers is always impressive, but moving into the digital realm, from experience, they can't seem to get the software portion hammered out.

Looked at reviews which said this speaker was difficult to set up. I purchased from John Lewis as I went to listen to the speaker which I felt was the best on offer. To my surprise it was quite easy to set up just download the Bose music app and follow the step by step instructions which also guide...