The launch of Amazon Echo Link Amp signals Amazon foray into the home audio space. It allows you to upgrade your speakers and stream music in quality hi-fi sound.

With the Amazon Echo Link Amp, you can stream music from your favorite services such as Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify and Tidal.  What you have is a built-in 60-watt, two-channel amplifier, and multiple input and output lines to be compatible with most speakers.

The Amazon Echo Link Amp is designed to give users options. It can easily connect your existing speakers – be it a bookshelf, tower, in-wall, in-ceiling, or outdoor. The inputs and outputs provide compatibility with the audio equipment you have currently, as such you can play music from your favorite source on your system. It is designed to comfortably fit in an audio rack. More so, this replaces a large receiver needed to power speakers in general.

The Amazon Link Amp does not have a microphone which is needed to talk to the system. As such, it needs to be connected to another Echo device in order to use voice commands for music playback.  The Amazon Link Amp is meant to be the link between your Echo devices and more powerful speakers, so you can turn a passive speaker into a smart one, and create multi-room music groups with them.

While the rest of the Echo product line is a mass market play, the Amazon Echo Link Amp is meant for a smaller, niche market. It has a set of functions that are unavailable on any other Echo device and is the easiest way to add Alexa to a set of speakers.