The 12 Best Echo Dots For Music (2023 reviews)

This amazon second echo dot is capable of outshining several other products featured in this list in overall features. It's the literal best voice assistant / speaker out there. The Echo Dot controls the light bulb from an ordinary light fixture. It comes with fairly robust sound. It's great for room moods as well as entertaining. The sound quality of the Echo Dot is excellent and the voice recognition technology is incredibly accurate. It also helps it change colors. This bundle contains starter kit for automating your home lighting with fun colors this holiday season. The 5th Gen has clearer sound quality. The light bulb is a wonderful add on.

Why We Like This:

Easy to use and set up
Great addition to other dots in the house
Great combo for the kids room

Best With Zigbee: Amazon Echo Dot

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For a low asking price, amazon echo dot has managed to overwhelm their customers by packing as many features as they could. If you have aging parents, this is a must. It offers a built in hub with alexa. It includes an echo dot (3rd gen) charcoal and philips hue white a19 medium lumen smart bulb, 1100 lumens. It’s small puck profile is much less obtrusive than the sphere, allowing it to fit better into the background rather than be a prominent feature. The bulb that comes with it works well as a light but doesn’t always respond to commands even when Alexa confirms that it has.

This smart light, while bluetooth compatible, will continue to work with your hue hub and can be seamlessly integrated into your hue ecosystem. It is going to be a little bit of a hassle to keep each smart device connected and running well with the echo dot.

Why We Like This:

Great gift and deal for the holidays
One of the new comers and featured product

Best For asking When actors: Amazon Smart Plug

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The amazon smart plug is capable of outshining several other products featured in this list in overall features for the price point. This latest 3rd generation definitely looks nicer with the fabric covering, and the sound is drastically better. It will turn it on if it's off, or turn it off if it's on the Bluetooth. This can be challenging if you have a lot of guests on their phones fighting for the Bluetooth. The Echo dot has better audio quality than the portable radio. It's fun getting it to sing and answer silly questions.

It comes with the echo dot and amazon smart plug, so you can add voice control to any outlet. It's easy to connect other products too. The app's self is very easy to use. This is a cool and useful toy if you learn how to use it.

Why We Like This:

Full alexa capabilities in a tinier echo
Convenient size, came with smart plug
Great to have this little dot to ask questions
Sound is decent for the size of the echo

Best For alarm Clock: Amazon New Dot

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Compared with other products by Amazon, the amazon new dot has a convenient design. This dot works perfectly for music, all the dot features and the added benefit of a clock. It’s the regular echo dot 3rd alarm clock. The volume level of the alarm is fully adjustable through the alexa app, including a gradual increase of the alarm volume. The ring does light up when the alarm goes off, but not nearly as brightly as it does during the day.

The alarm clock features itself are not very broad. It has time on it & you have to have it connected to the outlet in order for it to work. The voice recognition is better than Siri, Google and Cortana. It is non obtrusive at night.

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Time display is very useful and convenient
Super easy to use and versatile
Available with an led display that can show the time, outdoor temperature, or timers
Turn on lights, adjust thermostats, lock doors, and more with compatible connected devices

Best With Siri: Amazon Echo Dot

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The amazon echo dot is satisfactory and appropriate and fits well with your daily usage. There are many alarm sounds to choose from. It features and they have all integrated fantastically with the dot. This is just right, small with great sound. The sound on the 3rd Gen Dot is a lot better than the 2nd Gen Dot. It makes it easy to add other smart devices to your home.

This WAS THE BEST GIFT EVER FOR A PERSON LIVING ALONE ON A HOLIDAY TO RECEIVE. It is used to connect something like a fan or a lamp to wifi so you can control it with the dot. The device is easy enough to set up with the help of the companion app. It comes with tens of thousands of skills and counting, Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new skills like tracking fitness, playing games, and more.

Why We Like This:

A solid introduction to alexa and smart devices
Speak loud enough over fans, mute your tv or radio
One of the new comers and featured product

Best For instant questions: Amazon Gen Dot

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The amazon gen dot is suitable and reliable and fits well with your daily usage. The new Gen of Echo Dot has Ultrasound Motion Detection which is a game changer here. The sound is much punchier with more bass than the 2nd gen Dot, which is great. It's clear and crisp, making it perfect for streaming music or listening to audiobooks. The new Gen 5 Speaker is noticeably heavier than the Gen 4 thanks to the new speaker and electronics inside.

The Echo Dot clock has a brand new 5x21 high density led display which is both brighter and easier to read. It is ideal for searching, playing music or generating reminders. The speaker is great for music and podcasts. The Echo Dot is intended to be a convenient, compact, inexpensive smart speaker.

Why We Like This:

Amazing for music and smart home
Much clearer sound vs the dot (hockey puck) style great sound
Nice sound quality and easy to control
Good voice recognition and excellent sound quality

Best For high volume Music: Amazon Great gift

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate dot. The product is exactly that - it's a simple product that hits all the right notes. These are all very solid devices with great sound for music and issuing smart home commands. It works like a regular Alexa and it has parental control features that can be controlled with or without supervision in the Alexa App setting. The sensors and Eero extender features are the biggest improvements, and these changes add so much extra functionality to an already useful smart speaker.

It is easy to control and it’s little voice is too cute. The light is pretty sensitive and the lowest setting is still pretty bright. It is aggitating to de-childproof this unit. These additions offer many more useful automation options, and now having multiple Echo devices with temperature sensors can help identify differences in room temperature throughout the house.

Why We Like This:

Looks great on the night stand
Super cute design and owl voice
Super cute, the voice matches the animal, as opposed to the regular alexa voice
Cute and fun for a kid

Best With Bulb: Amazon Echo Device

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Compared with other products by Amazon, the amazon echo device has a convenient design. The Alexa Guard" function has glass break detection. It comes with 3 dots plus works well in the dot dock. It’s easy to control music with a simple phrase. The sound and quality are both amazing. The Alexa Guard will also randomly turn lights on and off when it is set to "Away" Mode unless you change that setting in the Alexa app. The main difference between the 2nd gen and this 3rd gen is that it sounds so much better. It’s a great tool to use when your hands aren’t free.

Why We Like This:

Works as a glass break monitor
Very convenient with the lights and for white noise at night
Looks even more discrete and goes well mounted on the wall

Best With Other services: Amazon mic button

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For a low asking price, amazon mic button has managed to overwhelm their customers by packing as many features as they could. This baby doubles as a smart home hub, so you can control all your compatible devices from one convenient place. Its sphere design allows it to project sounds to fill a room more effectively. With its sleek charcoal finish, it'll blend in seamlessly with any decor. It does well with integrating Sonos and hue lights. The voice recognition and sound quality is all there.

This unit has wonderful sound, looks good, and like all Echos, works great. The hub is used for Zigbee devices only. It is farther away in an adjacent room.

Why We Like This:

Alexa can control volume through voice control
Sound quality and voice recognition are great
Performs as all other alexa devices
Bigger, loud, and better than the echo dot

Best For streaming radio: Amazon bedroom Clock

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The amazon bedroom clock's material feels more premium than its price would suggest. This Echo Dot is a wonderful addition for use in the bedroom or any other room of your house. It has a clock that shows through the gray mesh. It's an alarm with a voice that's also capable of linking to other wireless things like iheartradio or Pandora. The brightness level automatic changes are perfect for day and night. It takes time to make and restock the device.

The Alexa is capable of voice interaction, music playbacks, setting alarms, streaming podcast, and control smart devices. The Sleek design, amazing sound for its size and the dimming clock display feature along with all the Alexa features make this an amazing alarm clock for your bedroom or any other room of your house. It has a built-in shopping list in the app, which is like a checklist.

Why We Like This:

Love the time display, sound quality, and the style
Perfect companions with satellite radio without having to buy their extra plan & receivers
Audio quality is plain and clear
Much fun learning more and enjoying the games

Best For information: Amazon Great Device

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The amazon great device's superior materials makes sure that it ages well with use. The Echo Show devices have screens and cameras. It comes from an excellent line of devices and like its' predecessors, it is as good as or better than those. It is built with multiple layers of privacy controls including a mic off button. It is compatible with Alexa, for example the sengled lightbulb. It is a 3.5 mm stereo audio output for use with external speakers. The buttons on the unit are easy to find and work well. The treble is rolled off too much so kind of sounds like there is a cloth or blanket over it but will do for sound. It is a schedule timer and set alarms which is very useful.

Why We Like This:

Amazing for the smart home devices
Great device, easily installed and paired to other devices
Doesn’t take much space and responds even from far away
A great solution for elderly parents who live alone

Best premium: Echo Dot For Music

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You can enjoy an improved audio experience compared to any previous echo dot with alexa for clearer vocals, deeper bass and vibrant sound in any room. It includes an echo dot (5th gen) with clock with amazon smart plug. The improved LED display shows you the time, alarms, weather, song titles and more. It is built with multiple layers of privacy controls, including a mic off button.

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