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The AirPods Max 2 (Billy Steele for Engadget)
Spring has surely sprung present astatine Engadget. Well, it has successful position of reviews, astatine least. We’ve put complete a twelve devices done their paces since my past roundup, which gives you a batch to drawback up connected complete nan weekend. Read connected for nan rundown of each nan reviews you might’ve missed.
ASUS ZenBook A16
The Zenbook A16 is nan lightest 16-inch ultraportable we’ve seen yet, and it’s amazingly tin acknowledgment to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 chips.
Pros
- Surprisingly light
- Polished design
- Excellent OLED screen
- Tons of ports
- Big capacity leap complete X1 chips
Cons
- Potential Arm incompatibilities
- Doesn’t support each PC games
ASUS’ ZenBook A14 didn’t unrecorded up to our expectations past year, but now nan institution is backmost pinch a 16-inch instrumentality and a changeable astatine redemption: the A16. “Compatibility issues aside, nan ZenBook A16 delivers conscionable astir everything I want successful an ultraportable,” elder newsman Devindra Hardawar said. “It’s sewage a gorgeous OLED surface and each of nan ports you need. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite chips besides springiness it a much-needed powerfulness boost. And champion of all, it's 1 of nan lightest and sleekest 16-inch Windows laptops I've travel across.”
Apple AirPods Max 2
The H2 spot delivers a big of caller features, but it’s clip for a broad redesign connected these pricey headphones.
Pros
- Comfortable
- Excellent sound quality
- Lots of caller features
Cons
- Same design, again
- Expensive
- Only 1 proceeding wellness feature
Until this year, Apple’s only updates to nan AirPods Max were caller colors and a USB-C port. The institution yet gave its pricey over-ear headphones nan powerful H2 chip, delivering a big of useful features from nan AirPods Pro. “The H2 spot brings Apple’s over-ear headphones connected par pinch nan remainder of nan AirPods lineup, namely nan AirPods Pro 3,” I said. “And since I don’t expect Apple to denote caller earbuds this year, that parity should stay for a while.”
Sonos Play
The Play sounds great, has a wide and versatile characteristic group and won’t break nan bank. It’s a invited return to shape for Sonos.
Pros
- Compact design
- Great sound value for its size
- Features for illustration line-in and Bluetooth grouping make it highly versatile
- Long artillery life
Cons
- Doesn’t travel pinch a powerfulness adapter
- More colors would beryllium welcome
Sonos severely needed a win. Thankfully, nan institution regained immoderate of its mojo pinch a caller portable speaker that offers nan champion of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi successful nan aforesaid device. “The latest Sonos speaker offers awesome sound quality, elasticity and portability, and it’s nan benignant of merchandise that tin thief Sonos rebuild its estimation aft its caller difficulties,” lawman editor Nathan Ingraham said.
LG Sound Suite
LG’s latest location theatre strategy offers immersive sound and tons of options. It’s costly though, and nan marquee characteristic isn’t ever easy to use.
Pros
- Detailed and expansive location theatre audio
- Dolby FlexConnect is genuinely useful
- Great for music
- Easy to usage arsenic individual speakers
Cons
- Expensive
- Frustrating setup and connectivity
- Each point is sold separately
- Some configurations require LG TVs
After an awesome CES debut, LG’s Sound Suite was my astir anticipated reappraisal of nan year. Despite awesome sound value and Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, location are still immoderate kinks to activity retired successful some nan setup and wide use. “There’s nary denying that LG has created a powerful and immersive surviving room acquisition pinch its Sound Suite lineup,” I said. “While I did acquisition immoderate setup and package issues, those are things LG tin robust retired complete clip — Sound Suite is still marque new, aft all.”
DJI Avata 360, Fender Audio, Nebula X1 Pro and more
The past fewer weeks person been beautiful audio-heavy present astatine Engadget, including nan first headphones and speakers from Fender Audio, two sets of headphones from JBL and nan Roland Go: Mixer Studio. I besides reviewed nan first of Sony’s 2026 soundbars, nan Bravia Theater Bar 5, and contributing newsman Steve Dent reviewed nan Anker Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro all-in-one projector.
Senior newsman Sam Rutherford really took 1 for nan squad and spent immoderate clip pinch nan Robosen Soundwave Transformers robot. Lastly, Steve took formation pinch nan DJI Avata 360 drone, which is simply a nonstop reply to Insta360’s Antigravity A1.
