We've tested hundreds of speakers over the years, and we put the best ones into our buying guides -- namely the ones for soundbars, portable Bluetooth speakers and smart speakers. Now that Cyber Monday has arrived, we're seeing notable discounts on many of our top picks. So if you need a soundbar to make the dialogue on your TV clearer or want to take your music out on the porch once the weather warms back up, this is a good time to grab a new music maker. And if you need a speaker to do your bidding (like turning on your smart lights or reminding you to take out the trash) you can save on a smart speaker, too. Here are the best Cyber Monday speaker deals we could find. Portable Bluetooth speakers make it easy for you to bring the music where plugs don't reach -- a picnic, the front stoop, an aimless wander along the Pacific Crest Trail.

According to my imprecise calculations, there are approximately a zillion speakers on sale for Black Friday. So how can a mere human know which ones are worthy and which will make music sound like it's emanating from a tin can? We've done our part by testing and reviewing dozens of different options and putting the best of the lot into handy buying guides for smart speakers, soundbars and portable Bluetooth speakers. This is an even more rarefied list, made up of the speakers we recommend -- that are also seeing notable discounts. If you need a new way to listen to music, a soundbar to help suss out the dialogue on your TV or a smart speaker to fulfill your demands, read on for the best Black Friday speaker deals. Portable Bluetooth speakers make it easy for you to bring the music where plugs don't reach -- a picnic, the front stoop, an aimless wander along the North Country Trail.

Earbuds are nice, but a portable speaker shares music with friends. And now for Black Friday, many of our favorite music sharers are on sale. We found deals on many of the speakers we've tested for our various guides and reviews -- and most of those discounts are hitting the lowest prices of the year so far. One of the best deals is the JBL Flip 6, now 50 off. Further down the page you'll see deals we found on smart speakers and soundbars too. Most everything here has been pulled from our Bluetooth speaker buying guide, our smart speaker roundup and other buying advice articles. Here are the best speaker deals we could find for Black Friday.

We've tested scores of speakers over the years, and the best ones have made their way into three of our buying guides: soundbars, portable speakers and smart speakers. Right now Black Friday sales are bringing notable discounts to many of our top picks. So if you need a soundbar to make the dialogue on your TV clearer or want to take your music out on the porch once the weather warms back up, this is a good time to grab something new. Of course, Black Friday doesn't technically start until the day after Thanksgiving, but nearly every retailer and speaker brand has already pushed their holiday deals live. Some discounts are even hitting new all-time lows. As new sales appear and we find new notable discounts, we'll update this list. But for now, here are the best Black Friday deals on speakers we could find.

According to my imprecise calculations, there are approximately a zillion speakers on sale for Black Friday. So how can a mere human know which ones are worthy and which will make music sound like it's emanating from a tin can? We've done our part by testing and reviewing dozens of different options and putting the best of the lot into handy buying guides for smart speakers, soundbars and portable Bluetooth speakers. This is an even more rarefied list, made up of the speakers we recommend -- that are also seeing notable discounts. If you need a new way to listen to music, a soundbar to help suss out the dialogue on your TV or a smart speaker to fulfill your demands, read on for the best Black Friday speaker deals. Portable Bluetooth speakers make it easy for you to bring the music where plugs don't reach -- a picnic, the front stoop, an aimless wander along the North Country Trail.

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.

Sonos may be synonymous with WiFi-equipped multi-room speakers, but plenty of companies have introduced their take on those products since the Play:1 arrived in 2013. Today, JBL announced its new Authentics series, a lineup of three connected speakers that offer a lot of what we've come to rely on from Sonos. While only the most expensive has Dolby Atmos immersive sound, the entire trio can run Google Assistant and Alexa at the same time, a feat JBL says it's the first to achieve. For the design of the Authentics series, JBL took inspiration from its L100 speaker that debuted in the 70s. That bookshelf unit featured a grid-patterned Quadrex grille as a prominent aesthetic element, one that the company has carried through a few of its pricier products over the years.

Google has just been hit with a $32.5 million penalty for infringing on a patent held by Sonos. According to Law360, a California federal jury ordered the fine after determining that Google infringed on a patent Sonos holds relating to grouping speakers so they can play audio at the same time, something the company has been doing for years. US District Judge William Alsup had already determined that early version of products like the Chromecast Audio and Google Home infringed on Sonos' patent; the question was whether more recent, revamped products were also infringing on the patent. The jury found in favor of Sonos, but decided a second patent -- one that relates to controlling devices via a smartphone or other device -- wasn't violated. They said that Sonos hadn't convincingly shown that the Google Home app infringed on that particular patent.

The Era 100 is the first of a brand new line of wifi speakers from multi-room audio specialists Sonos, taking what was good about its popular longstanding One series and adding more bass and stereo sound. With a similar aesthetic to the outgoing One, it is only 2cm taller and 1cm deeper, making it pretty compact and easy to place on a cabinet or bookshelf. It requires just a power cable, connecting to your router via wifi 6 for streaming music from more than 100 different services, including Spotify and BBC Sounds, controlled from the Sonos app on your phone. In a first for Sonos's non-portable speakers, it also supports Bluetooth 5 for impromptu streaming from guest's phones or other Bluetooth devices, which works great. A button on the top turns the voice assistant on or off.

Of the two speakers Sonos announced earlier this month, the Era 100 is much easier to sum up: it's a replacement for the Sonos One, which was first introduced in 2017. Unlike the Era 300, there's no need to ponder the value of spatial audio; the Era 100 is a relatively straightforward mono speaker, just like the One and the Play:1 before it. Don't let that simple description deceive you, though – the $250 Era 100 is a complete redesign, inside and out, and the end result is a worthy upgrade and a very versatile speaker. At first glance, the Era 100 looks quite similar to the One, but upon further examination you'll notice a number of small but meaningful changes. That starts with the vertically-oriented Sonos logo that you'll find on most of their other speakers like the Roam and, naturally, the Era 300.