By Jon Porter
When Amazon first released the Amazon Echo, the speaker that kick-started the voice assistant revolution in the home, there were two main criticisms that people levelled at the new device.
The first were centered around Alexa, the voice assistant powering the device. As an entirely new service, Alexa launched with pretty limited functionality at first, and people found it more useful as a novelty than a serious addition to their home.
The second was sound quality. The original Amazon Echo didn’t have the greatest sound to it, and was distinctly lacking in the bass department.
The intervening years have seen numerous improvements made on the first point with the addition of countless pieces of functionality to the ecosystem, but now Sonos is here to do what it can with the second criticism with its first Alexa-enabled smart speaker, the Sonos One ($199 / £199 / AU$299).
The multi-room company’s previous speakers have shown that it knows a thing or two about packing impressive sound into compact speakers, so at the very least we were expecting the Sonos One to offer a significant boost over the existing Amazon Echo’s sound. (Which it has.)
But more surprising was how pleasant the addition of …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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