{"id":327,"date":"2020-02-13T00:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T00:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=327"},"modified":"2020-02-13T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T00:08:25","slug":"echo-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Echo Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&#8217;t have to interupt and ask what song Alexa is now playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was fine for the lounge, but my bedroom still was stuck with a 1st generation &#8220;pringle tube&#8221; 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 &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcQt2FaY8EDj12fl-z5La3HBeDk9FaX497cjfSIXY7ptHbUlkIwKB1lGOoshEb9y4tGE3ykDYRVZXsqI&amp;usqp=CAc\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;t have two 1st Gen Echo&#8217;s functioning as a Stereo Pair, so looks like my parents could be getting an Alexa sometime soon&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/?p=327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Echo Studio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-echo","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farcorfe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}