SU-SUSTUDIO Amazon Echo Studio

The best sounding, but not best looking, Echo by far assails Sonos One with hi-def and 3D audio

£190 amazon.co.uk

Echo Studio fills a long-time gap in the Echo range. It’s the Echo that sounds good, here to replace, or at least take on, ‘proper’ speakers.

To that end it’s got oodles of bass, support for HD and UHD (CD quality and hi-res, respectively) music files from Amazon Music HD and an array of drivers that includes an upward-firing one, giving support for 3D audio and potentially letting it serve as a rear Dolby Atmos speaker. You can pair two as a stereo duo, or connect as many as you like into a multiroom speaker system, along with any other Echos you may own.

Or, to put it another way, it’s a Sonos One rival. Sure, there are plenty of other wireless speakers we could compare it to, but the Sonos One is market leader at this price.