The New Echo Dot Max Is on Sale at Its Lowest Price Ever During Amazon’s Spring Sale.
The Echo Dot Max is Amazon’s “pro” smart speaker, designed for those who want the best sound quality in a relatively compact package and at an affordable price. This enhanced smart speaker features powerful sound, a spherical body, and a concave cutout for volume and mute controls, surrounded by an LED ring (yes, it looks like the Death Star).
Released last October, the Echo Dot Max is now on sale at its lowest price ever as part of Amazon’s Spring Sale . You can get it for $74.99 instead of the usual $99.99.
The new Echo Dot Max is a step up from the Echo Dot, boasting three times the bass of the 2022 model (thanks to a new 0.8-inch tweeter and 2.5-inch woofer). It’s powered by Amazon’s proprietary Za3 chip with a built-in AI accelerator, making it compatible with Alexa+ .
Max also features a built-in smart home control hub with support for Matter, Zigbee, and Thread Border Router; it can also function as an eero extender for your mesh Wi-Fi router. It also features a temperature sensor and an ultrasonic presence sensor, so you can use it to trigger Alexa scenes as soon as someone enters the room.
Technically, the Echo Dot Max supports Wi-Fi 6E for faster speeds, Bluetooth 5.3, lossless high-definition audio playback, and automatic room adjustment. It’s also easy to pair two Echo Dot Max speakers to create a stereo home theater system with any compatible Fire TV device. The Echo Dot Max comes in three colors: graphite, glacier white, and amethyst. All three are currently discounted.
PCMag gave the Echo Dot Max an “Excellent” 4.5-star rating and an Editor’s Choice award, noting, “The Amazon Echo Dot Max stands out as a worthy successor to the fourth-generation Echo, firmly occupying the sweet spot of $100 for smart speakers.” And what’s better than a sweet spot of $100? A sweet spot of $75.