We were sitting in the sunroom late one Friday night in mid-2020, so still early in the pandemic, listening to a YouTube Music playlist via a pair of thunderous Sonos Play:5 smart speakers, when my wife suddenly announced, “We should get more speakers in here.” We jokingly refer to such sudden exclamations as “pronouncements,” as if they were edicts handed down by the queen. Which, when you think about it, they kind of are.

To be clear, we do not need another pair of speakers in the sunroom.