Echo Link - Stream hi-fi music to your stereo system
Key features
- •Upgrade your stereo system with high-fidelity streaming music and Alexa.
- •Voice control music selection and playback with your compatible Echo device or the Alexa app.
- •Connect Echo Link to your stereo and group with other supported Echo devices to play music throughout your home.
- •Supports hi-fidelity audio from streaming services like Amazon Music HD.
- •Multiple digital and analog inputs and outputs provide compatibility with your existing stereo equipment.
- •Lets you cast to one or more Echo speakers from a line-in input like an amplified turntable or CD player.
Echo Link - Stream hi-fi music to your stereo system
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Customer Reviews
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Your only option if you want to listen to Apple Music through Alexa.
Allen Holub✓ Verified Purchase•August 3, 2023
This is your only option if you want to listen to Apple Music through Alexa. The Apple skill works reasonably well (you can request songs, albums, artists, playlists, or just play everything on random by not asking for the above). I'd be happier with it if it supported AirPlay, but as long as Amazon and Apple are at war, that's probably not happening. I never did manage to get it to work by name ("Alexa, play xxx on Dining Room Link"). Maybe that's operator error. It works fine when made the default speaker on another Echo device, though.
Echo in the Canyon?
Pax✓ Verified Purchase•July 12, 2023
I am writing this review because I spent a lot of time trying to find more info on this device and found it hard to get the info I was looking for.
I am a budget audiophile that has a vintage silver faced Pioneer, a decent Kenwood turntable, solid speakers (newer Wharfedales) some Advents on the B and a nice Pioneer elite subwoofer hooked up by way of the tape out. I usually listen to vinyl records for anything that I really want some depth and dynamics on. A couple years ago I hooked up an Echo Dot to the AUX so I could stream music from my Amazon music account. However, I found I rarely used it because streaming music sounded really compressed and wasn't really even worth it. The stream sounded like a cheap facsimile of the real thing. Then, a couple years ago Amazon started offering the HD streaming service. Every once in while I would stream stuff through the Dot and it sounded much better as the quality of the stream was much higher, however, the listening experience was still no match to a vinyl record.
I recently stumbled on the Echo Link and tried to figure out if it would be worth the expense, if it would make that big of a difference in sound. All I wanted to from this device was to stream in ultra hd through the analog RCA cables to my Pioneer. I do not have any need at this time for anything to be sent out the optical or coaxial output. If you do enough research, you will find that the digital out is limited in its output ability but the internal DAC for the analog out does stream in 24 bit, 192KHz, which was all I was hoping for.
Long story short, this has outperformed my expectations. I was hoping against hope it would sound as good as my vinyl records, as no streaming really even came close before. After a few hours doing some listening tests, I can say that the Echo Link actually sounds better than vinyl if it's being streamed in ultra hd. The sound in ultra hd is extremely impressive, way better than I could have hoped for. Sound is always hard to explain, but full dynamics and range, immersive, great separation. Really brings out every nuance in the production of the music, from vocals to keyboards, drums, sounds like your in the engineering room for every album. For my system, it really helps to have a sub out in the Echo Link, as these old receivers don't have a dedicated sub out. The bass is much more focused and clear/distinct than it is when I am listening to records.
There is quite a distinct listening drop off, at least on my system, from the ultra hd to the hd. I haven't done extensive listening on a ton of hd recordings yet but the ones I did there was quite a drop off on sound quality, much thinner, less dynamic sound.
Overall, this is a game changer for anyone who is hoping to listen to music in high quality without breaking the bank. You would definitely want to get the Amazon HD music service. While having a Dot grouped with the Link is nice and convenient, truthfully it's not that big of deal. I like using my Amazon music app on my phone and casting it to the Link to play music, it gives me more control of what is actually playing, volume, stop start with having to say anything over the music.
This is a MUST HAVE for anyone interested in high quality music streaming that doesn't already have something built in to their receiver or doesn't want to dole out $$$$$ for the higher priced streaming devices. I can't believe it's taken this long to put together a streaming service that is equal to or better quality than CD's (Almost 20 years since cd's ruled the roost), but better late than never!
I am a budget audiophile that has a vintage silver faced Pioneer, a decent Kenwood turntable, solid speakers (newer Wharfedales) some Advents on the B and a nice Pioneer elite subwoofer hooked up by way of the tape out. I usually listen to vinyl records for anything that I really want some depth and dynamics on. A couple years ago I hooked up an Echo Dot to the AUX so I could stream music from my Amazon music account. However, I found I rarely used it because streaming music sounded really compressed and wasn't really even worth it. The stream sounded like a cheap facsimile of the real thing. Then, a couple years ago Amazon started offering the HD streaming service. Every once in while I would stream stuff through the Dot and it sounded much better as the quality of the stream was much higher, however, the listening experience was still no match to a vinyl record.
I recently stumbled on the Echo Link and tried to figure out if it would be worth the expense, if it would make that big of a difference in sound. All I wanted to from this device was to stream in ultra hd through the analog RCA cables to my Pioneer. I do not have any need at this time for anything to be sent out the optical or coaxial output. If you do enough research, you will find that the digital out is limited in its output ability but the internal DAC for the analog out does stream in 24 bit, 192KHz, which was all I was hoping for.
Long story short, this has outperformed my expectations. I was hoping against hope it would sound as good as my vinyl records, as no streaming really even came close before. After a few hours doing some listening tests, I can say that the Echo Link actually sounds better than vinyl if it's being streamed in ultra hd. The sound in ultra hd is extremely impressive, way better than I could have hoped for. Sound is always hard to explain, but full dynamics and range, immersive, great separation. Really brings out every nuance in the production of the music, from vocals to keyboards, drums, sounds like your in the engineering room for every album. For my system, it really helps to have a sub out in the Echo Link, as these old receivers don't have a dedicated sub out. The bass is much more focused and clear/distinct than it is when I am listening to records.
There is quite a distinct listening drop off, at least on my system, from the ultra hd to the hd. I haven't done extensive listening on a ton of hd recordings yet but the ones I did there was quite a drop off on sound quality, much thinner, less dynamic sound.
Overall, this is a game changer for anyone who is hoping to listen to music in high quality without breaking the bank. You would definitely want to get the Amazon HD music service. While having a Dot grouped with the Link is nice and convenient, truthfully it's not that big of deal. I like using my Amazon music app on my phone and casting it to the Link to play music, it gives me more control of what is actually playing, volume, stop start with having to say anything over the music.
This is a MUST HAVE for anyone interested in high quality music streaming that doesn't already have something built in to their receiver or doesn't want to dole out $$$$$ for the higher priced streaming devices. I can't believe it's taken this long to put together a streaming service that is equal to or better quality than CD's (Almost 20 years since cd's ruled the roost), but better late than never!
I can finally play my own MP3's over all my echo's at the same time
Johnny B✓ Verified Purchase•June 20, 2023
I have a huge MP3 collection that I use to play music everywhere but in the house, until now. Using line in on the Echo Link I connected a "1Mii Bluetooth Receiver" that receives bluetooth in and converts it to RCA out (red and white lines). I connected that RCA out to the Echo Link and boom I can play all my MP3's over all 10 of my echo dot's! I also have YouTube Music and stream it straight to the Echo Link and it plays all over.
Using an Echo Dot 3rd generation I connected an RCA wire to my amplifier and it plays in several rooms from my tuner on regular speakers also at the same time as the Dots. My music full house!
I gave 4 stars because it seems that if you change 1 Echo Dot or make anything changes to how you play anything out of the Echo Linki you have to unplug it to get it to work. You lose Alexa voice control for changing songs when using your own MP3's or a non Alexa approved streaming place like Youtube, but I'm just happy to be able to play my music everywhere.
Using an Echo Dot 3rd generation I connected an RCA wire to my amplifier and it plays in several rooms from my tuner on regular speakers also at the same time as the Dots. My music full house!
I gave 4 stars because it seems that if you change 1 Echo Dot or make anything changes to how you play anything out of the Echo Linki you have to unplug it to get it to work. You lose Alexa voice control for changing songs when using your own MP3's or a non Alexa approved streaming place like Youtube, but I'm just happy to be able to play my music everywhere.
You have to know what your doing
M-M✓ Verified Purchase•May 25, 2023
You may wonder why you need this.
Plus:
1) this device has a "hierarchy" in passing on sound, which is "stream Alexa enabled music" IF nothing is playing, look for an optical or digital coaxial input, like sound coming your your TV, or Google Audio, and play that, than finally, if none of the above are playing play the analogue input.
This means you don't need to fiddle with your receiver remote and you can switch between tv, record player (or my case google audio) all from one device with one volume control.
Supposedly the quality of the sound is also better, and maybe I hear it, I am not 100% sure. I did try to go from the dot 3 to the amp with a 3.5 to RCA cable, than switched to the Link with build in (better quality) DAC, and then I followed John Darko's (YouTube) advice and put a Shiit Modi 3 DAC between the echo link and my amplifier. Man, if you can hear it, good for you. What I got from the last option (adding the external DAC) was a sort of hissing or noice through my speakers, so I got rid of that.
Minus
The volume control is really such a negative for me. When I had this thing directly hooked to my Echo Dot 3, I can just walk passed it, and change the volume, or I can say "Alexa, volume down" both would do the same thing. With this thing I have to first put the Link in a group, like "Everywhere" and then I have to say "Alexa, change volume everywhere". This because the Link is not a speaker and therefore it can not be set as a preferred speaker, so it has to have the key word attached.
A software upgrade will probably fix this at some point.
Secondly, the "hierarchy" although brilliant, in my case didnt work out that well.
You see I have a Samsung The Frame tv, so when it's off, it's still projecting an artwork on the screen, so that I don't have to look at a black screen in the middle of the house. What this art screen does, unfortunately, is not switch of the light in the optical cable. Because of this I can't get to the analogue input. I first have to switch off the tv completely before I can get to the 3rd layer, which is analogue, and there I have connected the google audio.
Why? Well google has the ability to play in groups, and has all sorts of battery powered speakers that can easily be linked, so when I go to the pool I want to use google so I can take the JBL link speakers.
In any case it would be best to have Alexa 1 than 2 google audio and 3 the TV, but tv only has optical toslink and this must be 2nd, so I have to use my shiit dac to convert the optical of tv to the analogue, so that becomes 3, and then I can use the optical (yes google audio has optical out) of google audio into the Link. So that I can still play my tv art, while enjoying either Alexa enabled Tidal, in high quality, or via Google Audio.
This could be easily solved with a software upgrade where you can choose your priority channels, eg analogue 1 than optical than Alexa or whatever you want.
One more thing:
If you are trying to get sound out of the Samsung tv (or any brand perhaps) you must
1 go to the app that doesn't work
2 hear the distortion failing sound
3 click settings - advanced sound settings
4 switch everything to PCM.
Have fun!
Plus:
1) this device has a "hierarchy" in passing on sound, which is "stream Alexa enabled music" IF nothing is playing, look for an optical or digital coaxial input, like sound coming your your TV, or Google Audio, and play that, than finally, if none of the above are playing play the analogue input.
This means you don't need to fiddle with your receiver remote and you can switch between tv, record player (or my case google audio) all from one device with one volume control.
Supposedly the quality of the sound is also better, and maybe I hear it, I am not 100% sure. I did try to go from the dot 3 to the amp with a 3.5 to RCA cable, than switched to the Link with build in (better quality) DAC, and then I followed John Darko's (YouTube) advice and put a Shiit Modi 3 DAC between the echo link and my amplifier. Man, if you can hear it, good for you. What I got from the last option (adding the external DAC) was a sort of hissing or noice through my speakers, so I got rid of that.
Minus
The volume control is really such a negative for me. When I had this thing directly hooked to my Echo Dot 3, I can just walk passed it, and change the volume, or I can say "Alexa, volume down" both would do the same thing. With this thing I have to first put the Link in a group, like "Everywhere" and then I have to say "Alexa, change volume everywhere". This because the Link is not a speaker and therefore it can not be set as a preferred speaker, so it has to have the key word attached.
A software upgrade will probably fix this at some point.
Secondly, the "hierarchy" although brilliant, in my case didnt work out that well.
You see I have a Samsung The Frame tv, so when it's off, it's still projecting an artwork on the screen, so that I don't have to look at a black screen in the middle of the house. What this art screen does, unfortunately, is not switch of the light in the optical cable. Because of this I can't get to the analogue input. I first have to switch off the tv completely before I can get to the 3rd layer, which is analogue, and there I have connected the google audio.
Why? Well google has the ability to play in groups, and has all sorts of battery powered speakers that can easily be linked, so when I go to the pool I want to use google so I can take the JBL link speakers.
In any case it would be best to have Alexa 1 than 2 google audio and 3 the TV, but tv only has optical toslink and this must be 2nd, so I have to use my shiit dac to convert the optical of tv to the analogue, so that becomes 3, and then I can use the optical (yes google audio has optical out) of google audio into the Link. So that I can still play my tv art, while enjoying either Alexa enabled Tidal, in high quality, or via Google Audio.
This could be easily solved with a software upgrade where you can choose your priority channels, eg analogue 1 than optical than Alexa or whatever you want.
One more thing:
If you are trying to get sound out of the Samsung tv (or any brand perhaps) you must
1 go to the app that doesn't work
2 hear the distortion failing sound
3 click settings - advanced sound settings
4 switch everything to PCM.
Have fun!
Stream on echo devices/speakers + home/wired speakers!
M. VanVooren✓ Verified Purchase•May 10, 2023
Let's us play
a) streaming music - Amazon Prime, Apple Music, local radio station (Cardinals baseball on AM 1120 KMOX via Audacy app),etc.
b) bluetooth music
and/or
c) other input source via red and white RCA plugs / input jacks (unsure how to get turntable/phonograph to play through Link)
Via
i) home stereo"¦ Link to receive via red and white RCA plugs / input jacks to speakers
ii) Alexa speakers - individual or speaker groups
iii) both home stereo & Alexa speakers
AWESOME!!!
In the Amazon app, you can setup
- Music source for albums to Apple Music
- Genre like "play Smooth Jazz" or "play Classic Country" to Amazon Prime Music
- Podcasts to Apple Music
This is great!
Connecting our iPod to the home receiver was a challenge as the output volume of the iPod was low, forcing HIGH volumes to wired speakers to hear at a normal / not loud volume.
EchoLink has higher output volume so we can play the music via EchoLink to speaders at a normal / not loud, or a soft, or a "let's turn it UP!" volume.
Our home was built by the previous owners, who installed two ceiling speakers (one pair) in each of four rooms, with a volume control (Elan VS124-10); the local stereo store proposed we'd need a ~$2,000+ receiver to power the 8 40W speakers"¦ but we didn't"¦ we just needed this wonderful little $200 Echo Link and our existing 100W/channel receiver (circa 2000). Thank you, Amazon!
Amazon EchoLink Review
Stream on echo + home/wired speakers!
Let's us play
a) streaming music - Amazon Prime, Apple Music, local radio station (Cardinals baseball on AM 1120 KMOX via Audacy app),etc.
b) bluetooth music
and/or
c) other input source via red and white RCA plugs / input jacks (unsure how to get turntable/phonograph to play through Link)
Via
i) home stereo"¦ Link to receive via red and white RCA plugs / input jacks to speakers
ii) Alexa speakers - individual or speaker groups
iii) both home stereo & Alexa speakers
AWESOME!!!
In the Amazon app, you can setup
- Music source for albums to Apple Music
- Genre like "play Smooth Jazz" or "play Classic Country" to Amazon Prime Music
- Podcasts to Apple Music
This is great!
Connecting our iPod to the home receiver was a challenge as the output volume of the iPod was low, forcing HIGH volumes to wired speakers to hear at a normal / not loud volume.
EchoLink has higher output volume so we can play the music via EchoLink to speaders at a normal / not loud, or a soft, or a "let's turn it UP!" volume.
Our home was built by the previous owners, who installed two ceiling speakers (one pair) in each of four rooms, with a volume control (Elan VS124-10); the local stereo store proposed we'd need a ~$2,000+ receiver to power the 8 40W speakers"¦ but we didn't"¦ we just needed this wonderful little $200 Echo Link and our existing 100W/channel receiver (circa 2000). Thank you, Amazon!
a) streaming music - Amazon Prime, Apple Music, local radio station (Cardinals baseball on AM 1120 KMOX via Audacy app),etc.
b) bluetooth music
and/or
c) other input source via red and white RCA plugs / input jacks (unsure how to get turntable/phonograph to play through Link)
Via
i) home stereo"¦ Link to receive via red and white RCA plugs / input jacks to speakers
ii) Alexa speakers - individual or speaker groups
iii) both home stereo & Alexa speakers
AWESOME!!!
In the Amazon app, you can setup
- Music source for albums to Apple Music
- Genre like "play Smooth Jazz" or "play Classic Country" to Amazon Prime Music
- Podcasts to Apple Music
This is great!
Connecting our iPod to the home receiver was a challenge as the output volume of the iPod was low, forcing HIGH volumes to wired speakers to hear at a normal / not loud volume.
EchoLink has higher output volume so we can play the music via EchoLink to speaders at a normal / not loud, or a soft, or a "let's turn it UP!" volume.
Our home was built by the previous owners, who installed two ceiling speakers (one pair) in each of four rooms, with a volume control (Elan VS124-10); the local stereo store proposed we'd need a ~$2,000+ receiver to power the 8 40W speakers"¦ but we didn't"¦ we just needed this wonderful little $200 Echo Link and our existing 100W/channel receiver (circa 2000). Thank you, Amazon!
Amazon EchoLink Review
Stream on echo + home/wired speakers!
Let's us play
a) streaming music - Amazon Prime, Apple Music, local radio station (Cardinals baseball on AM 1120 KMOX via Audacy app),etc.
b) bluetooth music
and/or
c) other input source via red and white RCA plugs / input jacks (unsure how to get turntable/phonograph to play through Link)
Via
i) home stereo"¦ Link to receive via red and white RCA plugs / input jacks to speakers
ii) Alexa speakers - individual or speaker groups
iii) both home stereo & Alexa speakers
AWESOME!!!
In the Amazon app, you can setup
- Music source for albums to Apple Music
- Genre like "play Smooth Jazz" or "play Classic Country" to Amazon Prime Music
- Podcasts to Apple Music
This is great!
Connecting our iPod to the home receiver was a challenge as the output volume of the iPod was low, forcing HIGH volumes to wired speakers to hear at a normal / not loud volume.
EchoLink has higher output volume so we can play the music via EchoLink to speaders at a normal / not loud, or a soft, or a "let's turn it UP!" volume.
Our home was built by the previous owners, who installed two ceiling speakers (one pair) in each of four rooms, with a volume control (Elan VS124-10); the local stereo store proposed we'd need a ~$2,000+ receiver to power the 8 40W speakers"¦ but we didn't"¦ we just needed this wonderful little $200 Echo Link and our existing 100W/channel receiver (circa 2000). Thank you, Amazon!
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