Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation 2020 release - The Smartest Speaker With Alexa 

New impressions

Mostly a New Design

The fourth-generation Echo Dot With Alexa is designed as a 3.9-inch sphere covered half in plastic and half in fabric, available in blue, dark gray, or white. At the top, there are four physical buttons that help users increase the volume, decrease the volume, activate Alexa, and mute the microphone. The visible blue light ring makes the surface underneath glow softly when Alexa is listening has moved from the top of the speaker to the bottom. The back of the device offers a power adapter and 3.5mm audio output to connect the Echo Dot Smart Speaker to larger speakers.

Audio Performance

We didn't get room-filling power of low-frequency rumble with the Echo Dot Smart Speaker. The speaker handled The Knife's "Silent Shout" - our bass test - without much bass response to speak of. At maximum volume, we found kick drums and bass synths to sound poppy at their best, and lean towards distortion at the very least.

"Roundabout" still lacks much in the way of bass response, but it works a bit better on the Amazon Echo Dot Speakers. We rate that the Introductory Acoustic Guitar Pliers have some string texture, but also have a slightly hollow and soft sound. Also, the mix looks reasonably balanced when the track starts properly. However, any bass has a backing to vocals, vocals standing firmly in front. We find that this is a highly focused audio signature, with very little of the lower frequencies to sound out.

The new Echo Dot With Alexa doesn't sound as terrible as the previous version. The Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation just doesn't have the power or range to really deliver a room-filling listening experience with well-balanced audio for the user. But that's not a big deal because the Amazon Echo Dot Music is designed to bring Alexa's voice support to our desks, kitchens, nightstands, or anywhere else in our homes.

Amazon Echo Dot (4th Gen, 2020 release) Smart Speaker With Alexa Review by TopFreeReviews

More for Alexa, Less for Music

We've been reviewing Echo Dot With Alexa for years, and the Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation has always been a good choice for everything. Alexa isn't just music, it's also controlling smart devices in the home, listening to podcasts, talking to family members using the intercom, getting help with home, and thousands of voice skills additional.

There's very little reason to get a new Amazon Echo Dot Music if you already own a third-generation model. These two models are actually the same speaker and differ only in design. But if users just want to buy a smart speaker and want something with a little more power than the Echo Flex, the fourth-generation Amazon Echo Dot Speakers is a good choice at half the cost of the Echo full size.

What do we think of the Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation?

It's amazing how long it took for the Amazon Echo Dot 4th Generation to start to look like a dot. To mirror the look and feel of the new fourth-generation Echo, the fourth-generation Echo Dot is now a sphere despite its smaller size. The new Amazon Echo Dot Speakers is still one of the best ways to add Amazon's Alexa voice assistant to every room in your home, although not much else has changed here.

The new Amazon Echo Dot Music lets you access Amazon's Alexa voice assistant just by saying "Alexa" like every previous Echo Dot Smart Speaker, followed by a command. Alexa has the ability to answer general questions; control smart home devices; make in-house phone and voice calls to other Alexa devices; provide information such as weather forecasts and unit conversions; and stream music from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and SiriusXM. The Echo Dot With Alexa also has Bluetooth if you want to listen to music on other services.

Alexa's syntax tends to be very strict compared to the Google Assistant you get on the Nest Mini and Nest Audio. We've found that when controlling smart devices in the home, the Google Assistant has better natural language recognition. Amazon continues to grow and is working to improve Alexa's natural language recognition. For now, however, the Google Assistant has the advantage of being easier to talk to.