Upgraded the family to the Amazon Music HD subscription but then found that most of my devices being 1st generation did not support the new HD format. For Christmas I had already treated myself to an Echo Show 5 to feed the Hifi, with the added bonus that song artist and titles are now displayed so I don’t have to interupt and ask what song Alexa is now playing.
This was fine for the lounge, but my bedroom still was stuck with a 1st generation “pringle tube” speaker at Lo-Fi sound quality. My GF had treated herself to a 3rd generation Echo and the sound was significantly better than I was getting, so looking at the options for upgrade I saw this bag boy ……
A full blown speaker sized Alexa, The downside is I have lost the rotary volume control of the Gen 1, but the sound quality, especially the bass is immeasurably improved. It also has more heft and volume and even better I have managed to spread the payments over 5 months as was mostly an impulse purchase, but cost me less (in the first month) ) then upgrading to a standard Next Gen Alexa. So overall very pleased, only downside is that I hoped to relegate the surplus bedroom Alexa to a Stereo pair in the Kitchen, but seems you can’t have two 1st Gen Echo’s functioning as a Stereo Pair, so looks like my parents could be getting an Alexa sometime soon….