Amazon Echo Dot Max vs Amazon Echo Spot (2024)
Better figure, where one is clearly better
| AmazonEcho Dot Max | AmazonEcho Spot (2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Released | October 2025 | July 2024 |
| Sound | ||
| Type | Speaker | Speaker |
| Channels | Two-way mono | – |
| Dolby Atmos | No | No |
| Drivers | One 0.8″ tweeter and one 2.5″ woofer | One 1.73″ front-firing full-range directional speaker |
| Frequency response | 53 Hz – 16 kHz (at volume 6) | – |
| Audio formats | Lossless High Definition | Lossless High Definition |
| Room tuning | Automatic Room Adaptation | – |
| Connections | ||
| Wi-Fi | Yes | Yes |
| Bluetooth | Yes | Yes |
| AirPlay | No | No |
| Voice assistants | Alexa | Alexa |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax); eero Built-in mesh extender; Zigbee, Matter and Thread border router; Amazon Sidewalk | Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 and 5 GHz); eero Built-in mesh extender; Amazon Sidewalk; smart home over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh and Matter (Wi-Fi only) |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3; A2DP (to and from the speaker) and AVRCP | A2DP (to and from the speaker) and AVRCP |
| Streaming | – | Amazon Music and other services through Alexa; Bluetooth |
| Ports | Power only | – |
| Multi-room | Multi-room music with other Echo devices; stereo pair with a second Echo Dot Max; Alexa Home Theater with a compatible Fire TV | – |
| App | Alexa app (Fire OS, Android, iOS and web) | Alexa app (Fire OS, Android, iOS and web) |
| Design | ||
| Weight | 0.505 kg | 0.405 kg (better) |
| Controls | Buttons for volume and microphone on/off; tap gestures (accelerometer) | 2.83″ touchscreen (240 × 320) under half-circle tinted cover glass, with customisable clock faces in six colours; tap to snooze; buttons including microphone off; no camera; MediaTek MT8519 processor with 1 GB RAM and 8 GB storage |
| Microphones | Four-microphone array; button disconnects the microphones | Button disconnects the microphones |
| Size | 99.2 × 108.7 × 108.6 mm (H × W × D) | 113 × 103 × 111 mm (W × D × H) |
| Colours | Graphite, Glacier White, Amethyst | Black, Glacier White, Ocean Blue |
| In the box | Echo Dot Max, 22 W power adapter, quick start guide | Echo Spot, 15 W power adapter, quick start guide |
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