Echo Studio (Newest gen) | Our best-sounding Wi-Fi and Bluetooth smart speaker ever | Dolby Atmos, spatial audio, smart home hub and Alexa | Charcoal

This is exactly the sound I've been looking for, it's a big sound in a small unit.Whilst utilizing the 'stereo spacial enhancement' the instruments have a lovely separation to them and what I particularly like is the beautiful bass sound, it's not too overpowering and yet it's very clear & separated with a gorgeous little thump on the bass drum, no annoying bass frequency with this unit. You do not need the bass or treble full up but it's nice to have the spare if you're listening to a poorly produced album. Whilst utilizing 'sse' the middle is too high for my ears so I just go into the equaliser and drop the middle out.Please note there is a little quirk to the system, when you plug in a 3.5mm jack the sound does change for some reason, it's not quite so middly and separated, so if you're listening to a cd or vinyl record via the 3.5mm connection you might have to tweak the equaliser a bit and push the middle back up with some extra treble. But listening to music streamed from the internet (Spotify or Amazon music), this is where the unit really excels.It's the best £219 I've ever spent because it has literally made me rediscover all of my old favourite music because of how clear and beautiful it sounds. Crowded House for example have never sounded so good, it's like they mixed their music just for this unit.I can't stop listening to my music catalogue all over again.As a side note, I have placed my unit in the corner of my room 20cm away from the walls (the recommended distance is a minimum of 15cm). I have also placed it in the middle of an open space and it sounds great either way because the unit calculates the distance to surrounding surfaces for optimum performance, so just remember to unplug the unit if you decide to shift the unit a little bit so that it can recalculate distances.Obviously, if you completely relocate it, it will automatically recalculate when you plug it back in.

Having a number of Amazon Alexa devices around the home the Echo Studio has been on my radar for a long time and I have read the Spec and reviews too many times to count and on each occasion a review of one type or another plus the price has stopped me from purchasing.Until now when I decided it was time to trial them for myself rather than be swayed by others and how pleased I am with my decision.With my own experience of buying other Amazon Alexa devices and paired them for listening to music I was never going to buy just one Echo Studio so bit the bullet and decided to buy a pair. Amazon delivered the next day so there was no anxious waiting around for them to arrive.They came extremely well packaged, not the shipping packing - this was actually quite poor considering the value and type of the product, the actual speakers came double boxed and in Amazon cloth bags to help lift them out as they are weighty. They have a real quality feel and look. I do agree with other reviews that the power cable needs updating but that’s my only criticism about the overall look. Before buying I compared the other speakers available and these appeal to me more than anything else out there regardless of price.Unboxed and plugged in, they paired seamlessly with our network and Amazon account and connection took less than 5 minutes including an update they self performed. The sound quality is superb and we haven’t even pushed them over 50% as they are loud. A quick look at the Alexa app and a tweak on the EQ to suit my personal treble & bass choice and to pair them, not just together but with our Amazon fire stick and we sat back just to enjoy ‘all round perfection’ whilst watching tv via the fire stick.We moved onto streaming some music tracks via Amazon Prime and Apple Music and were pleasantly surprised by the rich tones and extremely clear sound quality.I reached out to Amazon for a suggestion re a good make of Optical cables and a Optical powered splitter in prep to link our tv to the Echo Optical input/s (you need two optical cables as a single cable will not provide sound to both speakers hence the required splitter too). Amazon suggested to purchase ‘any good quality cables and a powered splitter is recommended if the total cable length between the TV and both Echo Studios is more than 10 feet’. I only wanted to purchase a powered splitter anyway and found a nice triple output version with an additional 0.5mtr cable and a 5v USB power cable included with two 1.5 mtr Optical cables ordered too I would be all set to go when they arrived. I was apprehensive with this set up as I had read so many reviews whereupon others had experienced problems setting up this type of Optical connection.My purchases arrived today and within 5 minutes everything was set up. I had already changed the tv output to optical because I had set up the optical tv out to a LG Sound bar (which to be honest wasn’t good and the sound lag was awful) so having now set up the Echo Studios with the tv I could wait to see what we faced?I couldnt be more happy I was blown away with the sound quality. All the problems I had read about that other people say they experienced was not what I was now experiencing. I kept the tv running and just asked Alexa to play music and it switched perfectly and when that song finished I simply said ‘Alexa stop music’ and it switched back to the tv with no problem. It’s worth pointing out that the tv remote stops working the sound up/down/mute but you simply just voice control it and there is no voice lag between the tv picture and the Echo speakers unlike when using the sound bar. With the 3rd output on the splitter I can even plug in a set of headphones whereas I couldn’t do that prior as I had no headphone output via the tv. Cost of the 2 x cables £19.98 and the splitter £15.99 and worth every penny for the sound quality we are now getting via the Echo set up. And to top it all off the Echo Studios still work perfectly when asking Alexa to do anything (obviously the tv sound stops whilst this takes place but thereafter it simply switches back to tv sound.I have no cons what so ever my only two regrets are not buying during Black Friday to save a few bob and for not buying before now.The pros are quality sound now from the tv and streaming music and the two Echos are connecting to my iPad & Samsung phone to play music perfectly via Bluetooth.So if you are in doubt about trying & buying just do it and see for yourself if they fit the bill for your needs. There’s a lot of help out there if you get stuck with set up or what accessories work and worse case scenario if you don’t get on with them you have time to simply return them.I’m glad I took the gamble to try them for myself and I now have all round sound perfection from these great Echo Studio Speakers.