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    Amazon Echo Studio

    Mar 02, 2020 5 minutes
     Adam Turner

    Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is dominant in the US market over Google’s, but here in Australia the positions are reversed. So the smart speaker market is an important one for Amazon, a point of persuasion for getting its smarts into Australian homes. In terms of musicality, however, the Echo range hasn’t yet moved our souls with their performance. But the burly $329 Amazon Echo Studio certainly looks the part to make amends, standing nearly five centimetres taller and wider than Apple’s HomePod while tipping the scales at 3.5 kilos. Is this the Echo that will take on the more audio orientated brands in the smart speaker market?

    Plenty of power

    The design isn’t as easy to hide away in the corner of the room as some rival speakers, and the Echo Studio will struggle to find a home on the kitchen

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