Amazon’s Echo speakers have never been my smart speaker of choice, but for lots of people—like lots and lots of people—they are. Because of the sheer volume of Echo speakers in the world (no pun intended), when Amazon releases a new Echo product, it’s kind of a big deal—that’s regardless of whether the generation is iterative or not.

The same applies to Amazon’s just-released Echo Studio and Echo Dot Max , which debut at $220 and $100, respectively. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t exactly wowed with what I saw at Amazon’s event, but I did get to listen to them myself, and… they sound pretty good! That’s not an exciting impression of a product, but that’s the most I have to go off of with a gadget that I only got to watch someone else use in a limited capacity.

The crux of what I got

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