Amazon Echo Studio (newest model), compact design, immersive spatial audio and Dolby Atmos, Designed for Alexa+, Graphite

A Great Solution for Multi-Room Audio Needs
The Echo Studio speakers have been the perfect solution for our church’s multi-room A/V needs. Recently, the church moved our three ViewSonic projectors from rolling carts to ceiling mounts and needed something other than a wired connection (which was either too expensive to do well due to wiring installation costs, or too feeble to be useful when done with more affordable speakers) or Bluetooth speakers, which were too complicated, inconsistent, “buggy,” and not able to be integrated as a single functional unit.The solution? Installing an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K to make each of the ViewSonic projectors “Smart,” naming each Fire TV Stick by location, connecting the Fire TV Stick 4K to the WiFi network, and connecting the Echo Studio speakers to the Fire TV Stick in each room. Setup is dead simple: use the Alexa App to set up the speakers (you may need to run a software update… Do It as there are significant software improvements) and connect the Echo Studio speakers to the WiFi network (the App walks you through the steps). Then, use the Fire TV Stick remote to set up Home Theater mode in the Fire TV Stick options. Ensure all components are connected to the same Wi-Fi network, or this won’t work.The Echo Studio speakers connect to the Fire TV Stick via the Home Theater Mode setup. The software to set up Home Theater was slow to roll out, coming after the speakers had been on the market for several weeks, but as of mid-December, the software has been updated and improved, and the speakers pair seamlessly and sound fantastic, with rich, immersive, spatial audio and Dolby Atmos.An added benefit is that the Fire TV Stick and Echo Speakers connect as a single group and can be controlled by the Fire TV Stick remote. The only downside, which is entirely manageable and a more-than-fair tradeoff, is that the Home Theater Mode takes a moment to connect when the system is turned on each time. A message will appear on the screen, “Home Theater Being Optimized.” It takes some time, but it is worth it.The projectors can now be used to show streaming video via Apps (YouTube TV, Disney+, Prime Video, Peacock, Paramount+, Netflix, Spotify, and any other available App) and to mirror laptop computers for applications like PowerPoint presentations. Amazon Fire TV Stick does not support Apple AirPlay (thanks, Amazon), but there are applications you can download to enable Apple mirroring. Mirroring from a PC is enabled through the Fire TV Stick settings.These speakers are expensive, but they were the best solution we found for our A/V needs and work perfectly, delivering room-filling sound and an actual theater-quality audio experience.

Echo Studio (NOT) Echo 5th gen with premium sound (YES).
I’m totally blind. I got this Echo Studio to see how it was. I wasn’t expecting anything special based on other review of people who owned the old Echo Studio. So being I went into it with low expectations, in that regards, I wasn’t disappointed. It basically performed as I expected. First of all, this isn’t an Echo Studio as far as replacing the previous model. This doesn’t even come close. This basically is an Echo 5th gen with premium sound and not an Echo Studio. It more closely matches the Echo 4th gen with premium sound in all things accept for the price. Not with the full price nor the discounted price either. More like about an one hundred and twenty price only.Now to a little about this Echo. This is a large ball shape. The front of it is concaved and that is where the three buttons are. Left one is Volume down, middle is Mute Microphone and the Right button is volume up. At the time of writing this, This has the same issue as the Echo Dot Max. Another words, you cannot press the Volume Down and Volume Up at the same time to wake up the Echo like you can on the Echo Pop. So another words, you cannot manually tell the Echo to listen by pressing buttons. This is bad! The older models of Echo’s you have a way to manually tell them to listen to what you are saying. The power cable plugs into the back of the Echo witch is normal. This has a 1/4 inch 20 thread jack on the bottom so you can mount it on a camera mount of something like that. Same as the Echo 4th gen with premium sound. This doesn’t have any tweeters at all. This has a woofer and 3 midrange speakers in it.In my testing, I found if you are within 6 feet of it, the base sound like the old Echo studio. But if you are 8 or more feet away from the Echo, you cannot really hear the base that much at all. The voice using Alexa plus doesn’t sound as clear, more about Alexa plus below. The tap function, doesn’t seem to work well at least not for me. I turned it off to see if it improved sound! It didn’t. The volume of the voice is a good 2 steps lower than the music volume. Amazon really should give people the option to set voice volume differently from media volume just like cell phone have. After all, this has a sound card in it and I bet it has more than 1 channel on it. I played this Echo along with the old Echo studio in a multi room music group so I could see how it did. The old Echo studio had better sound overall and filled the room much better than this Echo 5th gen with premium sound as I call it.I didn’t even bother trying the Zigbee support in this Echo being Amazon today has such limited Zigbee support for sensors that use batteries it wasn’t worth testing and then the Echo drops connection to Zigbee device when you have a lot of them connected and of course it would be the one you want to use! LOL. If you also notice, Amazon on all of the devices never say how many Zigbee devices they’ll handle before they start having trouble. Humidity sensors don’t work, can’t get battery information, light sensing doesn’t work and a lot more. Like I said, Amazon Zigbee support is laughable at best. If you are using it for Lights, outlets, power switches excluding power strips! Then it is halfway OK until it drops connections to them. The power strips, it doesn’t see sub devices like each outlet on a power strip so you can’t control them using there Zigbee hub. Like I said, laughable at best.The Alexa plus for me is very slow and doesn’t remember things when you get it to correct something she said incorrectly. You have to argue with it and then she’ll say it correctly and you ask/tell her to say it that away from now on, she says she will and then you ask her the same question and she does it incorrectly again.I use a fitness tracker and I ask the Alexa plus how many steps I’ve taken today and she’ll come back and say you have taken 1 8 9 0 0 and you have 1 1 1 0 0 step to meet your goal. She doesn’t say you have taken 18,900 steps and you have 11,100 step to meet your goal. This only happen if the number is 5 digits. So the Alexa plus doesn’t put the comma in 5 digit number automatically even when you ask it to say them correctly. Another example I like to listen to a radio station called K M O X out of Saint Louis MO The Alexa plus calls it kmox all as one word, She doesn’t spell it out.. The old Alexa does things correctly.In saying the above! You can turn off Follow-up mode to stop her from responding to other things when you just want to hear only what you ask her. Alexa turn off follow-up mode. I find it bothers me with it on. You can go back to the normal Alexa just by saying Alexa disable Alexa Plus. Then responding YES to turn it off.I wish Amazon would allow someone to only have just some Echo’s in Alexa plus and other on the normal Alexa. I have about 20 Echo’s in my house. It is a real pain when you want to go back and forth to see if they’ve fixed things with Alexa plus. The reason for this is if you have changed from the normal voices, not everything is retained. Then if you had follow-up mode turned off, when you go to Alexa plus, this is forced to On for all of your devices. Then you have to go into the App to turn each one off. Then when you are trying to do that, you have to keep on going back into the screen each and every time to say only show me the Echo’s after you have changed one. Another word bad coding on Amazon part. If you have the App as far as type in the device set to show you only Echo devices! It should remain on that and not go back to showing you all devices after you have changed one device and back out of that device to get back to the list of devices. Then you have to change the device type again to say show me only the Echo devices. What a pain.At this time, I will be sending back the Echo 5th gen with premium sound (Not an Echo Studio) Not an update to the Echo Studio at all. More like a down grade all the way and Alexa plus isn’t ready for prime time at all. Many things just don’t work as I would expect at this point. Most skill have trouble, Sound theme don’t even work like on the old Alexa.

Sonido muy bueno, realmete espacial, el Dolby Atmos le hace una gran justicia. No es la mas potente (comparada con la generación anterior con sus bajos mas potentes) pero si con una mejor claridad y vibracion, que para mi mejora mucho mas las experiencias, sobre todo si quieres una experiencia inmersiva al ver películas o series.

Super helpful!