DO I need speakers as well as alexa?

[pinder325]

Hello,

I am getting my own place soon and am going to buy an alexa. My plan was to get the Alexa dot and then get some bluetooth speakers to use with it. I am on a budget so I was going to get the alexa dot and then some cheap bluetooth speakers such as https://www.amazon.co.uk/JBL-Special-Bluetooth-Portable-Speaker-Black/dp/B06XGTYJ4X

But then I thought would I be better off getting a more expensive alexa such as the echo 2? Will the built-in speakers be good enough to listen to music on regularly?

Thanks

[Laurel]

I have several Amazon Alexa devices i.e. Echo, Echo Show, and Tap and the music is great without speakers from our perspective.  My friend as an original Dot and she thinks the sound is very good.

[renegade600]

I think the newer echos have a pretty good decent sound.  Personally I don't like to play music from the echos because it is harder for them to hear commands - not impossible though.  I play it through bluetooth speakers across one room and through the home theater in another. 

[Drwoodr]

I did the dot + bluetooth speaker for several months. In my case, as with other bluetooth speakers, it would power off after a period of inactivity, so you had to manually turn it back on everytime you wanted to listen to music. I got an Echo 2, and love it. The dot alone sounds terrible for music, the Echo 2 sounds as good as the Bose Soundlink it replaced, in my opinion. The circular design sends music throughout the room.

[renegade600]

I did the dot + bluetooth speaker for several months. In my case, as with other bluetooth speakers, it would power off after a period of inactivity, so you had to manually turn it back on everytime you wanted to listen to music. I got an Echo 2, and love it. The dot alone sounds terrible for music, the Echo 2 sounds as good as the Bose Soundlink it replaced, in my opinion. The circular design sends music throughout the room.

that is a problem with some speakers.  fortunately the speakers I use don't have that problem.