"Alexa is always getting smarter," Amazon loves to say. That's a good thing, because the competition means that you'll continue to get a steady stream of new tricks, features and integrations to try out. It seems like a useful feature (and notably, one that won't work with the first- or second-gen Dots), but I'm going to withhold judgment until our audio experts in New York weigh in on whether or not it's even worth it with speakers as small as the Dot. That means you can group two Dots together and split the left and right channels between them during audio playback, or even pair them with the new Echo Sub for the boosted bass of a 2.1-style setup. The other point worth mentioning here in the sound quality section is that the new Dot supports Amazon's new stereo-pairing feature. Then again, if that's all you're going to do, then you might consider the new Echo Input - it's built for that exact use case, and it only costs $35 since it doesn't have a speaker of its own at all. Like the last Dots, the new one supports audio output via Bluetooth or via 3.5mm cable, which makes it a simple thing to connect it with all sorts of larger audio setups. My only nitpick: The sound can get slightly distorted at max volume.Īll in all, the stronger sound is a definite improvement, but it might be a moot point if you're just going to connect with external speakers, anyway. It can't compete with the full-size Echo or with any other full-size speaker for that matter, but still, I'm hard-pressed to think of many other speakers of this size - and at this price - that sound as good as the new Dot does. You can actually hear the bass (or crank it, thanks to Alexa's equalizer controls).
It isn't flat or tinny like it was before.
It really is striking how much better it sounds.
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