Amazon announces high-end Echo Studio, available for pre-order today for $200, with five speaker drivers and 3D audio support
and lends Samuel L. Jackson's voice to Alexa Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Amazon announces high-end Echo Studio smart speaker Nicole Lee / Engadget : Echo Studio hands-on: Amazon's biggest speaker sounds amazing Tweets: Amit Gawande / @_am1t : Every year around this time, Amazon walks onto a stage with a bag full of “things”, unties it and starts throwing them against the wall. No one has any idea if what they hurled is genuine and if it will ever stick. https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : This thing, which costs $200 in an absolute FU to Apple and Sonos, is the most interesting thing Amazon showed off today IMO https://twitter.com/... Mark Gurman / @markgurman : The Echo Studio. About 1.5x the size of a HomePod. pic.twitter.com/7MDgLvvqcO Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin : Definitely will challenge HomePod's positioning. Will be interesting if Apple has a lower priced HomePod coming. If they are serious about home audio they kind of have to. https://twitter.com/... Stacey Higginbotham / @gigastacey : Amazon has crammed a soundbar into an Echo speaker roughly the size of ice bucket. It will go on sale for $199.99 and is avail for pre-order. It will also stream sound from your fire TV in Dolby Atmos. It sounds really good. Stephen Shankland / @stshank : Alexa has hardware switches for mute button and camera button so if you turn off recording, it really turns off recording, says Dave Limp at the Amazon product launch. CNET live blog. https://live.cnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...