Purchased two of these and a Sub to make a Home Theater because I wanted Atmos and I was already fairly deep in the Amazon ecosystem otherwise, and can't say I'm impressed. When it works it sounds great and I'd be happy enough with the $600+ for THAT system cost, but the issues are just way too wide spread to not just get something else for your home theater needs.
- When paired as a Home Theater the right channel becomes muffled. The individual speaker itself exhibits zero problems as a single unit until it's paired. I've factory reset them, swapped them, tried on 4K Max vs 3rd Gen Cube etc. The right channel ALWAYS becomes muffled.
- Making a Home Theater exhibits an enormous lip sync lag, and the built in tuner is pretty useless at fixing it. You basically just guess you're fixing things. If you try and wire it to avoid this you lose some of the premium audio qualities as your only option is optical. There needs to be HDMI ports which can provide all the premium audio until they can fix whatever's wrong with their wireless system causing this loss.
- The overall sound on Amazon Music is simply flat and muddled. I've spent hours trying to adjust within the equalizer, turning off spatial (which paid for you know) and everything just comes across muddled. Which is just inexplicably weird. This is an Amazon system and Amazon Music sucks on it? I could understand underhandedly nixing your competitors, but no idea why Amazon Music would be so bad. I get better sound quality on my old 3rd gen Dots.
- Additionally regarding music, but for some unknown reason all the premium music options from Unlimited are unavailable on the TV app versions of Music and I have their "premium" 4k Max and 3rd Gen Cube Defeats the entire point of buying a "premium" setup like this is supposed to be if they can't even produce that content. I can literally look at my phone's Music app and see a song listed at a completely different and better quality than the other app lists it as. And yes, you do need to turn on Ultra HD in the TV app versions but that's as high as it goes and it's still nowhere near consistent with what the phone lists across the same songs. Amazon has confirmed the phone has the best versions which is ridiculous.
- Because there's such issues with Music, I'm constantly having to fiddle with the settings switching between apps. Netflix, Prime, and Youtube all sound perfectly fine and have fantastic audio and especially Atmos. But you end up adjusting the settings to try and make Music better and go back to the content that actually works and you've perhaps messed it up. Or pick your poison that the Music is just going to suck so long as everything else sounds great.
- The stupid red lights on these things when muted. That's fine on your Dots you scatter around and out of sight, but if you're trying to use it for a Home Theater it means you've got unsightly red lights in line with your viewing. Stereos try and keep their lights dim/off precisely NOT to interrupt your TV viewing. And obviously if you've got a pair going, or paired to a Cube, then you don't need ALL of them unmuted so you've got red lights randomly around and then one without it.
- The stereo pair does produce great sound, but it is lacking a dedicated center channel as you can only set up two together. The voices are mostly fine, but why cap it at 2? A 3rd for the center would fix this, and could provide upscaling as presently this caps at 5.1 as that's what 1 individual Studio is. It's making a 2.1 system with 5.1 speakers. If you can virtually accomplish that, why cap it?
- They're about 1ft high so if you want to set up the Home Theater you're also going to need to mount your TV as otherwise they cut off the bottom of your screen. A normal soundbar doesn't do this, or at least not so obviously and so unevenly (it would at least dip into the screen across the length of the TV)
- The 3rd Gen Cube can send Dolby MAT while the 4K Max can't even though they're both just a software change necessary as that's all they did for the Cube which didn't natively come with it. Bit weird. Any other system the speaker itself would determine this. And here we know the speakers CAN do it, but are being artificially capped not to so you have to buy 3rd Gen Cube. Scummy.
- No Smart Modes in Canada. Meanwhile in the US you can just tell it to switch to Music Mode or TV Mode. Or it could just do it automatically as it detects the input. Amazon is supposed to be all about making things as simple and automatic as possible for all those who don't want to get into the weeds, yet they're leaving this feature in only some countries. Which, again, it should just be a software feature to send out. I'd rather just wait however it takes from them to roll it out.
- Unlike a regular speaker or soundbar, you can't have multiple things going. If you're watching Netflix and ask it to play Music it'll force the Music over the Netflix app itself. My old soundbar I could just connect to Bluetooth and leave the TV on in the background so I'd still get the picture.
- No Ethernet option. Everything has to be wireless, which is leaving in opportunities to lag.
Etc.
Honestly, I had a waaaaay better experience with the JBL Bar 5.1 + Sub which was also on sale over the holidays for $499. Far more powerful and loud, reliable HDMI connection, automatically adjusted presets to the inputs and just left you to decide your bass decision, had an ethernet option, could connect across various inputs, etc. Literally only switched to this instead as it didn't have the Atmos feature/upfiring speakers and instead had it's own JBL Multibeam technology which virtually mimics it. Which sounded alright and a similar virtual experience as Atmos, but isn't Atmos and so you're losing out on sound quality as nothing's coded to this and it's trying to replicate it instead of being capable of it.
The $1200 JBL 9.1 meanwhile does actually have Atmos and all the other fixes I'd want so might need to just bite the bullet and pay more for that system.
It's a shame as the Echo system has all the right hardware already. It's not an issue of having made speakers that can't do these things, or at least do them properly. The recent fix to making them capable of Dolby MAT for the 3rd Gen Cube proves that they can pump out a fix with a click of a button. As does Music sounding like crap but Prime sounding amazing. Amazon is doing everything wrong software wise, which is a wonderful problem to have... if they're willing to fix them. Given how long Studios have been out for I'm not exactly holding my breath that they're planning on fixing these issues with updates and instead aren't just planning new speakers for their 2023 lineup.
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