VITAL STATS
SPHERE GOING TO BE FRIENDS
Words Tom Wiggins
Right sphere, right now
The latest Echo Studio is powered by a new AZ3 Pro chip – and with Eero built in, it can become part of your mesh Wi-Fi network if you have the right setup.
Amazon Echo Studio (2025)
£220 /go.stuff.tv/EchoStudio25
It’s a lot smaller than its predecessor, but Amazon’s well-rounded new Echo Studio has big plans
● There goes the sphere
Amazon’s Echo Studio has spent the past five years as something of an outlier. When the rest of the lineup went spherical in 2020, the Studio’s barrel shape and thin bass port cutout made it look like the black sheep of the family, but now it finally matches the rest of the voice-controlled flock. Its new chassis is only about the size of a cabbage, but it still has three 1.5in full-range drivers and a 3.75in woofer inside. And as with the new Echo Dot Max (see right), the flat panel that houses the controls makes it look a bit like a Magic 8 Ball.