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TechAudioSpeakers3 reasons the Amazon Echo Studio is the best Alexa speaker yet - and 1 why it isn’tI’ve been trying out Amazon’s most powerful smart speaker, the Echo Studio (2022) and I think it’s fantasticWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
I’ve been trying out Amazon’s most powerful smart speaker, the Echo Studio (2022) and I think it’s fantastic
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Amazon’s smart speakers come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, each one has different benefits and will be suited to different spots in the home.
The tiny littleAmazon Echo Dotwill be plenty for your bedroom alarm clock, or if you plan to listen to music occasionally in there then you might be better off buying the regularAmazon Echo. But if you want something to sit centrally in your home and help you get organised then you might find that one of their smart displays is right for you, like theAmazon Echo Show 8or theAmazon Echo Show 15.
For your living room or kitchen, you’ll want more of a home speaker, in which case you should go for the all-new 2022 release of the Amazon Echo Studio because it’s theirbest smart speakeryet. As you’d expect you get all the perks ofAlexabuilt-in, and you can use this as your Zigbee smart home hub too.
There are a few reasons why I think it comes out on top, but there’s one thing that some people might find a little off-putting.
It’s powerful
In theAmazon Echo Studio (2022) review, I described the sound as being ‘clear and relatively precise as well, with thumping bass and distinct treble although the mids could sometimes get a little lost in translation.'
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The sound adapts to the space
The Amazon Echo Studio (2022) has one feature that you don’t get in any of the other Echo devices - room-adaption technology.
It’s able to analyse the acoustics of the room around it using the built-in microphones and then uses that information to automatically adjust the equaliser to give you perfectly tuned sound for the space it’s in.
You can connect to it in a few ways
All Echo devices are well-versed in wireless connectivity - you can play music over your Wi-Fi network and they all have Bluetooth built-in too.
But the Amazon Echo Studio goes a step further than that with two additional wired ways to connect, through a 3.5 mm audio input and an optical input. That opens up doors to play music (or other content) from more devices, like from your TV in the place of a soundbar.
But it’s a bit of an eye sore
It all sounds great, and this is undoubtedly a step above all of the other Echo devices in a number of ways. But there’s one more thing worth mentioning, the design is pretty divisive. Some people will love it and somereallywon’t.
The Amazon Echo Studio is a bulky home speaker that needs a lot of space, it looks like an inflated Amazon Echo, with a gap towards the base and a large ring light on the top. Aesthetically, it’s not going to fit in as well with your home, as say the Sonos One. But in saying that, you can now buy it in two colourways (white and black) which will help you match it to your decor.
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