Amazon Echo Studio (2025)
With booming bass, spatial audio and Alexa+, this is the best smart speaker for an Amazon-centric home
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The Echo Studio is a long overdue update to the 2019 original
The Echo Studio is Amazon’s premium audio device, but it hasn’t had an update since its original release in 2019 – at least, not until now. Half a dozen years later, it’s finally been refreshed with a new look and a slew of updated features.
In place of the original Echo Studio’s canister-like design, the 2025 version looks like a larger version of the Echo Dot Max (see opposite). It’s a spherical device, with a circular indentation in the front where the volume controls sit; encircling these is the familiar LED ring, and the rest of the body is wrapped in a mesh fabric that’s similar to that on the Apple HomePod mini (see issue 362, p93). There’s almost nothing else to it – just a screw mount in the bottom, so you can attach it to a wall should you wish to.