Speaker set for Amazon Echo?

[Andehh]

Having got an Amazon Echo Dot this Christmas (just like the rest of you I imagine!) I am now looking for suitable speakers for it.

I hoping to put 3 speakers on the kitchen cupboard around the room. All three have access to power, but no other wires. Before I tear up the carpet in the room above & run cables, is there a wireless solution?

A ''Master speaker'' to connect to Alexa, then two secondary ones that connect to the Master Speaker?

I know Sonos would probably do it, but that's too much for me to justify.

[kingston12]

There are plenty of pairs of speakers that you can connect by Bluetooth, but not sure if there are any sets of three speakers that you can connect simultaneously.

I run a pair of Q Acoustics BT3 on top of my own kitchen cupboards. Like most similar speaker sets, only one of them requires power, but the two speakers must physically be connected to each other by a speaker cable. Not sure if that takes this type out for your application?

[Andehh]

kingston12 said:

the two speakers must physically be connected to each other by a speaker cable. Not sure if that takes this type out for your application?

This is my issue. Opposite corners of the kitchen, with no cables to run between them. For future proofing I had power ran to the top of the cabinets & one of them as CAT6/HDMI there, but stupidly I didn't think to run speaker cable.

Hoping to have 3 speakers that communicate with each other, then one master to connect bluetooth to the Echo Dot.

Was hoping for a cheap Sonos type, not too fussed on acoustic level sound performance.

[weeboot]

Why 3 speakers?

[kingston12]

Andehh said:

This is my issue. Opposite corners of the kitchen, with no cables to run between them. For future proofing I had power ran to the top of the cabinets & one of them as CAT6/HDMI there, but stupidly I didn't think to run speaker cable.

Hoping to have 3 speakers that communicate with each other, then one master to connect bluetooth to the Echo Dot.

Was hoping for a cheap Sonos type, not too fussed on acoustic level sound performance.

I am not sure even Sonos would do what you need. Sonos speakers allow two to be connected wirelessly to give a stereo pair, but I think it only allows more than two speakers for it's home cinema applications.

[weeboot]

kingston12 said:

I am not sure even Sonos would do what you need. Sonos speakers allow two to be connected wirelessly to give a stereo pair, but I think it only allows more than two speakers for it's home cinema applications.

You can group more than 2, but not as stereo.

[Slyjoe]

Watching with interest, as I'm connecting mine wired to a Roberts kitchen radio. If I'm honest, I have not really found much use for it yet. I dont have amazon prime, so that kinda limits it I guess.

[Andehh]

Even just two would work. I just quite like the idea of discrete speakers in the kitchen in multiple locations!

If needs be it's carpet up in the bedroom (wife's away for a week in the spring ), cutting through the floor & trying to feed cables down into the room below.

[AndyH1]

kingston12 said:

There are plenty of pairs of speakers that you can connect by Bluetooth, but not sure if there are any sets of three speakers that you can connect simultaneously.

I run a pair of Q Acoustics BT3 on top of my own kitchen cupboards. Like most similar speaker sets, only one of them requires power, but the two speakers must physically be connected to each other by a speaker cable. Not sure if that takes this type out for your application?

HI,

I am interested in using the BT3s with an Echo Dot..had a question if you can help. Does the Bluetooth link stay active whilst power is on the BT3s..i.e. does the Bluetooth connection on the BT3s go to sleep requiring 'waking up' with an 'Alexa connect my speaker' each time?

Thanks