Echo Studio price & release date
It costs £189 / $199, undercutting those two by at least £100 / $100. You can pre-order an Echo Studio immediately. It will be released on 7 November 2019.
Echo Studio features & design
The Echo Studio looks quite a lot like the Echo Sub, but with the familiar LED light ring around the top, and is a little bigger than the Apple HomePod at 206mm tall and 175mm in diameter (the HomePod measures 170x140mm).
Works with Fire TV
More than that, the Echo Studio supports 3D audio from Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 Reality Audio, and that’s good news if you have a 4K Fire TV because the Echo Studio can be connected to it and will play the Atmos-encoded sound from the Fire TV.
If you want to go the whole hog you can buy two and pair them together for stereo sound.
Zigbee Hub
Surround sound
Inside the Echo Studio are left, right and top 2-inch mid-range speakers that create directional sound. There’s also a 1-inch directional tweeter and a 5.25-inch bass driver (which has a bass port) for deep lows. It has a peak output of 330W.
There’s also a 24-bit DAC and power amp which is what you need for hi-res, lossless playback.
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