Alexa Home Theater Will Let You Use Amazon's Echo Speakers For Surround Sound

What if you could conscionable usage a ton of Echo speakers arsenic a situation sound setup for your TV? That’s fundamentally what Amazon is trying to execute pinch its caller Alexa Home Theater feature, which was announced during its 2025 instrumentality motorboat today. As nan sanction implies, Alexa Home Theater useful pinch up to five of its caller Echo Studio aliases Echo Dot Max devices to create a situation sound situation pinch “compatible Fire TV sticks.” According to nan company, Alexa will automatically group up nan Home Theater characteristic erstwhile you’ve plugged successful respective Echo devices.

Clearly, Amazon isn’t aiming for nan location theatre enthusiast crowd here. A situation sound strategy without a subwoofer simply won’t sound very exciting. But if you’re going for a reasonably minimalist setup, I could spot really having a fewer Echo orbs astir your surviving room could beryllium much aesthetically pleasing than elephantine speakers. It’s unclear if Alexa Home Theater will activity pinch nan original Echo Studio, but we’re trying to corroborate that pinch Amazon.

While nan institution is pitching this characteristic arsenic an inexpensive introduction into situation sound, a afloat Alexa Home Theater setup will commencement astatine $500 for 5 Echo Dot Max speakers, and it’ll get moreover pricier erstwhile you propulsion successful nan $220 Echo Studio. At that point, conscionable get a decent soundbar, which will beryllium capable to virtualize situation sound and connection amended low-end.