Best Echo Smart Speakers

The Echo Studio High-fidelity smart speaker plays music and follows commands equally great. With its 360-degree setup, the speaker produces a really thrilling sound with exceptional dynamic range and stunning stereo image. Plus, it can shake your walls with powerful bass that is both deliberate and authoritative. Very punchy indeed!

Being 8.1 inches in height and 6.9 inches in diameter, this is obviously not a speaker that would sit demurely upon a table. Yet, its large size is easily justified with five strategically positioned speakers neatly hidden inside. They send different parts of the song to your ears from different directions, thus delivering room-filling sound and making the listening experience as immersive and expansive as possible. The Echo Studio can easily handle max volume with strong bass, dynamic midrange, and crisp highs. And whatever the source, the speaker will add space, clarity, and depth. This is achieved owing to the addition of the Dolby Atmos technology that enables a multidimensional audio experience.

What's more, this speaker sounds quite nice wherever you put it in. This is helped a great deal by the Automatic adaptation technology, which can sense and analyze the acoustics of your space and automatically adjust the sound to give you the best-quality audio playback. Also, this means you won't need to worry about your room's acoustics having a negative effect on this speaker.

Smart home devices have become incredibly popular over the past few years. We've got such smart devices as light bulbs, heaters, cameras, door locks, in-wall switches, plugs, and sensors for just about everything. Plus, new devices continue to pop up every week to drag your house into a connected future. And when all of these devices are being handled by a single network, you have a smart home. The whole idea is to have everything talking to everything. For example, it may be your lighting bulb that talks to your security camera or send signals to your coffee machine to make you a hot cup of coffee once you get out of bed. But there's one problem - different companies make different smart devices. And if you want them to work together, they should speak a common language. That's where the Echo Plus comes in handy.

Made with the Zigbee hub, it's able to easily control and tie all your compatible smart home devices together. With a built-in Zigbee, there will be no barriers to communication between smart devices even if they're from different manufacturers. Namely, it's compatible with such big names as Amazon, Comcast, Honeywell, Huawei, Philips, SmartThings, Texas Instruments, Amazon, Belkin, Ikea, Lutron, Nokia, Osram, Bosch, Indesit, Samsung, Velux, Humax, Panasonic, Miele, and others. So, if you've got quite a lot of different smart devices from pretty much different companies, the Echo Plus will let them work in harmony without the need for separate hubs.

The Echo Dot (3rd Gen) is probably the most popular smart speaker in the world. It's a very compact, extraordinarily useful, and versatile device that can help you keep up with the technologies and live a smarter life. That's become possible owing to the quick integration with Alexa and its broad set of skills that continuously expands. Actually, the Echo Dot is one of the easiest devices to set up. You simply should plug in the power cable and then use the Alexa app on your smartphone to connect the Dot to your Wi-Fi network. The app will lead you through everything, and the whole process won't take you longer than a minute.

Once connected to Alexa, the speaker will give you a whole new world of opportunities. Moreover, Amazon often adds new features and updates to Alexa and they automatically become available on all Echo devices, including this. For now, you can use the speaker to control almost everything with your voice (smart lights, locks, TVs, music, thermostats, and many more), stream music via Wi-Fi from multiple sources, make hands-free calls to almost any number in North America, communicate between different Echo devices like an intercom, make purchases from your Amazon account, set timers, create calendar reminders, etc.

When it comes to entertainment, you can check the news, weather, or traffic, as well as ask for sports scores, movie showtimes, restaurant hours, or any other sort of information. The opportunities are almost endless with Alexa and Echo Dot!

What we have here is a very minimalistic Echo wireless device that looks nothing like other Echo speakers. Actually, it's a small plug-in unit that can fit any room without sticking like a sore thumb. It plugs directly into a power outlet and requires neither a messy cord nor an accessory shelf to hold it. It just neatly sits in an electrical outlet out of the way, ridding you of the need to run a cord for a bulky dot. So, if you have some areas where it's impossible to install a full-sized device or just want to make all the nooks and crannies smarter, then you should definitely take a closer look at this model.

Of course, the Echo Flex lacks sound fidelity due to its compact size, but if you don't plan to use it as a primary music source, then you're good to go. The Echo Flex connects through the Alexa app (like other Echo devices do) and performs all the same functions. For instance, it lets users turn lights or TV on/off; set timers and reminders; ask for weather or traffic information; check the time; activate motion sensor in the garage; and many more useful commands.

The device is quite affordable, which means you can equip your home with multiple speakers and get help from Alexa in more places. This way, you'll be able to benefit from the Drop-in feature and talk to any room in your house. The Drop-in opens a two-way communication channel between different Echo devices, allowing you to remind your kids that it’s bedtime from the opposite end of the house, for example. Quite handy.

If you're a huge fan of Echo devices and have one in nearly every room, there is still some area for improvement. We offer you the Echo Auto for use in your vehicle. It seamlessly connects to Alexa via your smartphone's Alexa app and then plays through your car's speakers. You can use either an auxiliary input or the Bluetooth connection. Yet, do note that the Echo Auto can't be paired with some vehicles, so you should check compatibility in advance (only if you're going to use the Bluetooth technology).

Once set up, the device will respond to your voice flawlessly, just say "Alexa" and wait for the chime to give commands or ask something. It starts up in mere seconds and works through your car speakers, using your existing phone plan. The Echo Auto is fitted with eight microphones that are strategically placed all around, so it'll hear you even on the noisiest of roads.

Once synced, this auto smark speaker will let you do almost all the same things as standard Echo models. To specify, you'll be able to update to-do lists, check the calendar, set events, or make hand-free calls while staying fully concentrated on the road. Also, the Echo Auto allows for Drop-In connection with Echo devices at your home. This way, you'll get an opportunity to send announcements to your family members on-the-go. Needless to say, you can ask Alexa for directions and it'll connect to supported apps like Google Maps or Apple Maps on your phone.