The mics on the Echo Studio are constantly listening to its output, adapting the sound mix for your environment and the output needed for each track.
To pull this off, the Echo Studio is bouncing sound around the surfaces of your room, introducing micro-delays to certain parts of a track to make them appear to come from all around you. Sony has its own format, Sony 360, which is also being supported by the Echo Studio. It’s increasingly being used in music studios too, with the likes of Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group offering tracks in the format. The directional audio system, now a mainstay of quality home theater setups, uses object-based soundtracks to put sounds above and around the listener. Tapping into the new Amazon Music HD service, the Echo Studio will have access at launch to a growing library of "hundreds" of songs mixed in '3D', while also upmixing stereo tracks by default to a Dolby Atmos mix. As a result, you're going to need to keep a bit of space around the Echo Studio in order to take advantage of that directional sound. Its size means you’re going to have to think about where you’re going to place the Echo Studio – it won’t fit quite so discreetly onto a shelf as other Echos have.Īnd there’s another thing to consider here too – its directional sound capabilities. You’ll also notice two cut-aways inside the Echo Studio enclosure, allowing air to flow freely to help it pump out bass at high volume.
Volume buttons sit on the top, along with a mic mute and Alexa-wake button, with the signature blue-light ring also present. The Echo Studio pumps out 330 watts at peak, via two two-inch side-mounted mid-range speakers, a two-inch upward firing midrange speaker, a 1-inch front-facing tweeter, and a 5.25-inch downward-firing sealed woofer. It’s a big unit then, and it offers output to match.
It's roughly eight inches high by seven inches wide. While the Echo Studio continues that same design language, being cylindrical in shape and covered with a fabric mesh, it’s considerably larger than any Echo that’s gone before it – like someone’s zapped a standard Echo with a gamma ray and made it grow to at least twice the size, Hulk-style. We've become used to Amazon Echo speakers looking pretty similar, especially the standard Echo and the Echo Plus. (Image credit: Future) Design and features
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