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The blue ring of lights shows that the Echo is actively listening to you and streaming your speech to the cloud to interpret what you’re trying to say. I was constantly amazed that it could hear me from the front door, all the way down the other end of my long and narrow terraced house.

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The mic array means Alexa can hear you even when playing music at full blast, or in my case, from the other end of the kitchen while the washing machine, oven and dishwasher are all going. An array of seven microphones work in conjunction to do what’s called beam forming – isolating a sound coming from a particular direction by cancelling out all other noise. It’s not quite as good as a Sonos Play 1, which also costs £150, but then it is doing a lot more for the same price. It’s not going to please audiophiles or beat a good pair of speakers, but it is fully capable of filling a room with pretty good sound. It sounds pretty good for a single 360-degree speaker. A rotating ring at the top acts as a volume control, but in truth you never need to use it or the action button. At the top are two buttons, one for performing actions and the other for muting the voice recognition. In its base are two down-firing speakers - one tweeter and one 2.5in woofer - producing 360-degree audio. When not active it simply looks like a black perforated tube, but when spoken to a ring of lights up top sparkle to indicate activity, state and whether it’s listening to your barked orders. Standing 23.5cm tall with a diameter of 8.4cm, the Echo is a small tower speaker available in black or white. The top ring lights up: blue when listening to you red when muted, which is clearly visible from across the room.

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