Bose Portable Home Speakers (2019) vs Marshall Kilburn 2

The Bose Portable Home Speaker (2019) is an example of a great Portable Bluetooth Speaker at its $420 budget.

In the case of the $251 Marshall Kilburn 2, however, we weren't able to find enough data to come to any reliable conclusions. If you're considering buying a Portable Bluetooth Speaker in the $170 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 "Most versatile" title from SoundGuys and "Bose" from Rtings in their respective Portable Bluetooth 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 MakeUseOf, iMore, and nextpit.com - it won the "Ranked 1 out of 10" title from MakeUseOf, "Ranked 1 out of 9" from iMore, and "Ranked 1 out of 6" from nextpit.com. 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 TechHive, Techradar, and PCmag, and found that they haven't shown a preference for either product.

Then we checked which sources liked these two Portable Bluetooth 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 10 from macsources.com.

Lastly, we averaged out all of the reviews scores that we could find on these two products and compared them to other Portable Bluetooth Speakers on the market. We learned that both of them performed far better than most of their competitors - the overall review average earned by Portable Bluetooth Speakers being 7.6 out of 10, whereas the Bose Portable Home Speaker (2019) and Marshall Kilburn 2 managed averages of 7.9 and 8.3 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.