JBL Authentics 200 Review: A Great Little Smart Speaker

JBL has unveiled an all-new series of smart speakers, which means yet another option to investigate in the overgrown smart speaker marketplace. Except there is something different about JBL's stylish Authentics line. For one thing, they're arguably the coolest-looking speakers out there, borrowing aesthetically from JBL speakers past and present, like the L100, to dig up some slick nostalgia. When it comes to smarts, they're the first of their kind to offer both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant in conjunction, meaning you don't have to choose between them. This opens up an array of use cases, and the two assistants mostly work well side by side, if not always together.