Bose Portable Home Speakers (2019) vs Marshall Kilburn 2

The Bose Portable Home Speaker (2019) is an example of a great Smart Speaker at its $380 budget.

In the case of the $279 Marshall Kilburn 2, however, we weren't able to find enough data to come to any reliable conclusions. If you're considering buying a Smart Speaker in the $310 range, we encourage you to take a look at some other options.

Two highly trusted sources that perform well-thought-out in-depth testing consider the Bose Portable Home Speaker (2019) to be a great product - it earned the "Best Bose portable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth speaker" title from CNET and "Ranked 1 out of 5" from SoundGuys in their respective Smart Speaker roundups, which is a good indication of it being a notable product.

Moving on to the Marshall Kilburn 2: it has done really well in a number of roundups done by sources that perform objective and reliable testing, including livingetc.com, MakeUseOf, iMore, and nextpit.com - it won the "Best looking outdoor speaker" title from livingetc.com, "Ranked 1 out of 10" from MakeUseOf, and "Ranked 1 out of 9" from iMore. That points towards it being a cut above most of its competitors.

We examined all of the review data that we could find and first took a look at sources that reviewed both of them, like T3, Techradar, and PCmag, and found that they haven't shown a preference for either product.

Then we checked which sources liked these two Smart Speakers best and found that the Bose Portable Home Speaker (2019) got its highest, 9.6, review score from reviewers at Technically Well, whereas the Marshall Kilburn 2 earned its best score of 8.5 from ilounge.com.

Lastly, we averaged out all of the reviews scores that we could find on these two products and compared them to other Smart Speakers on the market. We learned that both of them performed far better than most of their competitors - the overall review average earned by Smart Speakers being 7.4 out of 10, whereas the Bose Portable Home Speaker (2019) and Marshall Kilburn 2 managed averages of 8.0 and 7.9 points, respectively.

Due to the difference in their prices, however, it's important to keep in mind that a direct Bose Portable Home Speaker (2019) vs. Marshall Kilburn 2 comparison might not be entirely fair - some sources don't take value for money into account when assigning their scores and therefore have a tendency to rate more premium products better.