Microsoft Audio Dock

Missing an Ethernet port, but Microsoft gets everything else right with this compact dock

TIM DANTON

PRICE £204 (£245 inc VAT) from microsoft.co.uk Four months ago, I reviewed the £399 Logi Dock (see issue 337, p64), which promised to both tidy desks and make video calls less painful by integrating a speaker and microphone into a docking station. I admired the ambition but not the wobbly audio picked up by the echo-cancelling microphones, which is why that was the first thing I tested here. Microsoft has done a better job, with clear voice capture while dampening background sounds such as music, but you will lose some of the timbre from your voice. You can also use this as a mini speaker, but with a modest tweeter and 2in woofer inside it’s never going to set your pulse beating faster. Its audio output is better suited to the burr of…

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