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Soundbars With Alexa Built In. TV Dialogue You Can Hear From the Kitchen, No Extra Echo.

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Here’s the moment I stopped being proud of my home-theater “setup”: standing in the kitchen while the TV played a movie, hearing nothing but muffled explosions. The dialogue was in the living room; I was thirty feet away with a spatula. Most homes fix this by shouting “rewind it” at each other or buying an … Read more

Echo Whole-Home Audio on a Budget: Rooms, Groups, and the Math That Beats Sonos

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Echo Whole-Home Audio on a Budget: Rooms, Groups, and the Math That Beats Sonos

My upstairs neighbor spent a fortune on an Echo Studio, loved it, then spent twice that on four more Studios to cover the house. Whole-home audio hacks exist so nobody does that. The cheap version: one Echo Dot per room you actually listen in ($40-ish each on sale, often $25), grouped in the Alexa app … Read more