4th Gen Echo Dot - Charcoal

I love this thing. I can’t believe how many people complain about the sound quality. Think of its size? It sounds great to me unless you turn volume up to 50 percent or higher. Then, it sounds flat. But here is how to add more base or treble. Say Alexa, turn base or treble to 6. You can go from minus 6 to 6 with these things. This also works with mid range. I have that to minus 6 and the other two at 6 and have no problems. Hope this helps.

The new echo dot 4th Gen has very good voice recognition and bass quality but it does crackle when connected to my receiver through the 3.5 cable. Only crackles when first responds and does not do it constantly. I tried it in different receivers and it still crackled. Also tried different cables and still crackled. Would use Bluetooth but the echo dot will not sync with my Pyle receiver. I do recommend this echo dot however.

So I bought the echo dot because I keep forgetting to add items to my shopping list and figured it would be easier to just call things out as I see that I need them. This works great for that. I have also added additional lists other than shopping and to do. It's very convenient to ask her questions rather than look them up on the internet myself. I find myself using it more and more each day. The only thing I would change if I could, is the wake up name. I don't want to be limited to Alexa, Echo, , or Computer. I really really really want to name her Beetlejuice.

Awesome product

Great product and very pleasedEasy to hook up via Bluetooth to iPhone and sounds great. I purchased it primarily as a soundbar alternative and found it very challenging to get this done. There are no clear instructions on this and searching the web demonstrates step by step to add as a home theater. The problem is the home theater option was not available in the Alexa app and I had to hunt and peck to figure it out. Being in technology was an advantage as my wife as a non technical consumer would not have been able to hook it up.Would recommend better in box instructions on how to install as a home theater speaker.