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when it comes to Wi-Fi speakers especially at the budget level the soonest one is a breakthrough product it's the first time a company has produced a smart speaker or in other words a speaker with a voice assistant on board that actually sounds really good and the best bit is that you aren't stuck with just using Amazon Alexa in 2018 the speaker will also be compatible with Google assistant offering users real choice music sounds great - maybe a little closed or dark for lovers of classical or folk but excellent for rock pop and dance the one is the same size price and shape as the existing play one but it offers both better sound as well as the inbuilt microphones onboard the one is not interchangeable with the play one though as it has been completely redesigned which means unfortunately you can't pair it with play one to play in stereo you'll need another one to do that at the moment saying Alexa activates the microphone and you can use it as a regular smart speaker it does pretty much everything an echo can do ask it for the weather turn off the lights or whatever you want Alexa is it going to rain today you can ask it to play a song and it will play however at launch it doesn't support Spotify and it defaults to Amazon music instead the good news is that the speaker supports Spotify Connect as well as 80 different streaming services via the Sonos multi room app if you've been waiting for smart speakers to actually get good then the time has arrived the soonest one maybe uncharacteristically rough around the edges right now but will no doubt improve dramatically over time nevertheless the soonest one should be the number one choice for music lovers who want to buy a smart speaker