You know the feeling you get when, after a long flight, you pop, ready and you can hear again? Right, it’s as if the world is opening for you. I had that feeling, though fleeting when I listen to the new Amazon Echo Dot Max for the first time.
It was just minutes after Amazon concluded his massive unit rolling on September 30, 2025, when the company revealed new Echo shows, Kindle writers and Echo Smart speakers. I was led into a small room filled with the new Amazon Echos (including the redesigned study), where I could finally hear Amazon’s new sound goods away from people and noise in the big demo room.
To understand what I was heard, you need to know more about this new smart speaker. The new Amazon Echo Dot Max is not just a sound update; It’s a complete redesign. Of course, the body is still round, but Amazon Alexa Ring of Lights has moved from the base to a cutting on the face and surrounds “Stop Listening” and Volume Controllers. There is also a new seamless mesh body.
Inside, however, there is a whole new sound system that includes a high excursion woofer and a custom tweeter. This is a fewer tweeter than the fourth gene Echo, but one more than Echo Dot. Amazon’s audio engineers worked near magic to open the aural space for Dot Max, so that every bit of air inside the chassis serves the audio output.
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Listen up
Back to my aural experience.
“Now you go again
You say you want your freedom, ”
Called Stevie Nicks’ instantly recognizable voice from the previous generation Echo Dot. It sounded fine.
A second later, Amazon’s Exec switched to Amazon Echo Dot Max.
“POP! ‘
Yes, it was like my ears cleared and I heard the Fleetwood Mac song again.
“As a heart beat you make crazy
In the stillness of remembering what you had “
Sang Stevie Nicks and it was impressive. Full of far more bass than a speaker of that size has the right to have, and the clarity of the heights was sharp and pin clear.
Impressive for a speaker of $ 99.
Amazon-Exec switched to the Echo studio and if you read my colleague Jake Krol’s hands-on, you know that it sounds space filling and impressive in the way that only a speaker of that size and design might.
By the way, there are many Echo Dot Max features that I did not try, like its out-of-the-box Alexa+ capabilities, which are helped by a remote microphone system. There is also the new AZ3 processor (the study gets AZ3 Pro) that will help with Edge-Case AI assignments (one that may not need larger models, such as basic discussion clouds)
Yes, this new speaker is twice as much as the price of Echo Dot (which doesn’t go anywhere), but you pay for the new design, Alexa+ readiness, and of course the surprising level of sound quality. Plus, if you invest in up to five of them, you can quickly build a decent home theater -surround sound system.
Amazon told us that the speakers are using the new omnis technology to read Acoustics to read room and also adjust the speakers to Full Dolby Surround Sound.
For the moment I am impressed with the sound, but there is so much more to test on Amazon Echo Dot Max. Keep an eye on our full review.
Amazon Echo Dot Max, $ 99.99 / £ 99.99 / AU $ 199 is on pre -order now and ships October 29.
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