Wireless For Sound

The new home sound systems are small, sharp and smarter than most scholars

- Elle McClure

No longer are home speakers the bulky accoutrements you’d feel the need to hide behind your healthiest fiddle leaf fig, dropping out (just when the playlist is getting good) every time the person connected to the Bluetooth has to field a call – the new-gen speakers have more power and better sound quality than you’ll ever need, and are imbued with the most useful features technology has afforded us. The latest releases now have access to most streaming services built-in, mitigating the need for a device to hook up to – and you can forget clumsily trying to adjust the volume manually, as most can now fulfil all your whims via voice command. And much like the Bang & Olufsen styles Saint Laurent stamped its mark on for a recent collab (exclusively stocked in Parisian cool-kid hangout Colette just before it closed),