Top Rated Wearable Bluetooth Speakers

By Tinh Lee, September 13, 2021

Updated November 2022 - Listening to music on the go while not having the ears blocked a nice experience. Not only do these hybrid wearable speaker-neckband headphones sound good, but they offer good call quality. Some even come with a pair of earbuds attached for listening to music privately. You can also use it for watching TV and other physical activities like jogging or walking. The latest Sony SRS-NS7 even offer 3D-sound experience, also called cinema-like sound that surrounds you from the film or video you're watching

How we picked?
Battery life
Average battery life for wearable speaker is 6 hours, but there are a lot of options that top over 10 hours.
Sound quality
It's picky, and you may like a set with clear, bright highs, nice, accurate mid-range and proper bass response - that's possible with the speaker's sound configured for a very good balance.
Call quality
If you work from home and often make calls on Zoom, Team with your colleagues (They hear no echo of themself). Call quality is important, fortunately there are certain features like pressing button to answer or advanced codecs for noise reduction.
Surround sound
It depends on the video/music streaming services you subscribed, which support popular spatial audio technologies. The surround sound feature in wearable speakers provides more immersive watching movies/listening music experience.
Size and portability
Probably you don't want to wear a heavy neck pillow, it's same for wearable speaker, so size and weight define the comfort level and stabititly of speaker on your neck. If you move a lot pick the portable one.
Earbuds attached
Attached earbuds to speaker base allow you to listen music privately.

Avantree Torus (NB05)

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Bottom Line
Weigh only 255 grams, the Avantree Torus (NB05) deliver both in ear-sound with attached earbuds and stereo from Bluetooth speaker.
Bluetooth version
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Editor's Rating
Battery life
Rated up to 8.0 hours

Bose SoundWear Companion

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Bottom Line
Though the Bose SoundWear Companion is quite expensive at time of release it does a good job as speakerphone and wearable speaker. Solid sound and unique experience sound blasting from around your neck.
Bluetooth version
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Editor's Rating
Codec
Battery life
Rated up to 12.0 hours
Delivering up to 5 watts of audio output
Built in speakers
2 x 2.5W Drivers (size: 1 x 1″)
Weight
259 grams

Sony SRS-NB10

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Bottom Line
You can do a lot more with Sony SRS-NB10 - jogging or biking, since they are smaller and more portable than large neckband Bluetooth speakers, supposedly used at home.
Other than that you get a good call quality with Sony SRS-NB10 for Team or Zoom meetings, just to make sure you are in a room with less background noises since Sony SRS-NB10's mic doesn't have noise filtering function.
Bluetooth version
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Editor's Rating
Codec
Battery life
Rated up to 20.0 hours

Sony SRS-NS7

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Bottom Line
Support Dolby Atmos and Sony's 360 Reality Audio, the Sony SRS-NS7 is great for tracks on streaming services that come with Dolby Atmos. It weighs 319 grams, which is fairly comfortable to wear at home.
Bluetooth version
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Editor's Rating
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Battery life
Rated up to 12.0 hours
Delivering up to 6 watts of audio output
Built in speakers
2 x 3 W Drivers (size: 1.3 x 1.3″)
Weight
319 grams
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