Amazon was the first company to popularize the smart speaker with the release of the original Alexa-based Echo five years ago. There was just one problem however: It sounded like a clock radio wedged in a length of pipe. Successive updates have tweaked both the design and, more importantly, the sound quality -- which brings us to the Echo Studio.
The Echo Studio is the biggest and best-sounding speaker Amazon has produced to date.
The Amazon Echo Studio produces a monstrous cloud of sound that works great with action movies and spacious styles of music; It offers a lot of features, including Dolby Atmos, excellent connectivity and Fire TV hookup, for a relatively affordable price; The microphones are quite sensitive.
The sound isn't always very distinct, which makes it less suitable to showcasing 3D music or Atmos; Multiroom support lags behind Sonos and Apple AirPlay; Dolby Atmos soundtracks require a Fire TV device.