Amazon Is Going All In, The Newest Echo Speaker Hits a Record Low in 2025 Despite Rising Tariffs
If you’ve been thinking about bringing Alexa into your home, now here’s your chance to do it. Amazon’s latest most premium Echo speaker (don’t confuse it with the more basic Echo Dot and Echo Spot models…) which features premium sound and smart home capabilities is currently on flash sale for just $64, which is a full 35% off its regular $99 price. With tariff hikes expecting to hit electronics costs across the US, this might be your time to get one of the best Alexa speakers available at such a low price.
Smart Home HubThis Echo is more than a standard speaker and it’s presented as “a smart home gateway and entertainment centerpiece” in its own right which is designed to fill spacious bedrooms, living rooms or kitchens with immersive audio. Amazon has improved the sound experience and provides detailed sound that adjusts automatically to the acoustics of your room. Streaming lossless HD audio from Amazon Music or your go-to playlists from Spotify, Echo makes your music sound its absolute best.
The Amazon Echo’s abilities go far beyond music: With Alexa built-in, you can control your entire smart home system with your voice. The integrated smart home hub supports Zigbee and Matter, so you can add and control compatible locks, lights and sensors with ease. Want to start your morning routine with lights turning on, your coffee brewer starting, and your favorite news briefing playing—all triggered by motion as you enter the room? The Echo makes it all simple.
Alexa is always at your service, waiting to set timers, reminders, or alarms, check the weather or answer silly questions. Far-field microphones on the Echo ensure Alexa picks up your voice from across the room even as music is playing. Families will also love the ability to place hands-free calls, drop in on other Echo speakers throughout the house or call out others dinner’s ready as another method of connection.
Privacy is Amazon’s number one concern and the Echo has multiple layers of privacy controls integrated including a clear microphone off button. Amazon maintains that it never sells your personal information, and you always have control over your data.
Why this is so pressing an issue is… timing. Since tariffs on electronics are about to increase in the coming weeks, price rises have been expected by analysts on the prices of speakers and many other gadgets. The current Easter flash sale by Amazon might just be a way to shift current stock prior to changeovers becoming effective so waiting could end up meaning very high costs for the same piece of hardware. In fact, this may actually be the last opportunity to own an Alexa-enabled speaker at this price point, and it may be a very long time before prices go that low again.
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