Quinn visits the Amazon Echo design labs

[Botch]

Snazzy Labs is one of the tech channels I follow, and here he visits and then uses the newest Echo home theater devices.
First, I don't recommend these devices (even though I own two) nor do I personally recommend dealing with Amazon at all; I'll leave it there.

But, hearing the discussions on how the Echoes are designed, the give-and-take between mics, speakers, air volume, cooling and aesthetics was fascinating to me, and I thought a few others here might be interested. The second half of the video is pretty much an infomercial, just so you know, but I really was interested in the design lab work.

 

[Flint]

I believe they are amazing and love mine to death.

That said, all the new models do NOT have line level outputs, so while all of my Echo devices today, but one, are connected to excellent to VERY high-end loudspeaker systems, I cannot ever replace them as directly drop-in replacements for the units I have today. If I have to replace one today, I have to come up with a new way to get the primary output to a speaker system versus using the built in speaker.