They support Ethernet and coaxial cables. The Echo Link costs $199.99 and will be available later this year, while the Link Amp costs $299.99 and will be available early next year. The Link connects to receiver or amplifier, while the Link Amp has a built-in 60-watt dual-channel amplifier that links your Echo to play music on your stereo. The Echo Link and Echo Link Amp are stereo amplifiers with multiple audio in and out options. Sonos has several Alexa-compatible devices (and Google Assistant support should still be coming soon), but it targets a more premium audience that is willing to pay higher prices for its products.Īlongside the Sub, Amazon also announced two more audio products, the Echo Link Amp and Echo Link.
Alexa is also getting new music skills, like new music alerts from your favorite bands.Īmazon pushing into the home audio market makes sense - both Google and Apple have been doing the same - and it could represent a more serious threat to Sonos. They also will work in Amazon’s multi-room setup as groups. When paired with a single Echo you get 1.1 sound, with two Echos you get 2.1. The stereo pairing feature is also new - previously, you could group Echo devices into a room but not into actual stereo systems, as you can with the HomePod or the Google Home Max. When paired with two Echo devices, it should create a 2.1 stereo system. The device itself is a big, cloth-wrapped cylinder that encloses a six-inch down-firing woofer. It ships later this month, available for preorders today.
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It can be paired with two “of the same compatible Echo devices” for full stereo pairing, and it will be controlled with the Alexa app or with your voice. As was leaked yesterday, it’s a 100W subwoofer that is meant to supply the bass for a home audio setup. ‘The Witching Hour’ represents musically their pull on us, into this world of new sounds and endless possibilities.In Amazon’s second (perhaps now annual) surprise Alexa event, it is making a bigger push into the home audio space with the Amazon Echo Sub. Through our many collaborations with them in their varied musical projects, we have always helped bring things together by leaning on our roots in the classical world. I suppose that the very name of the ensemble echoes not just the past encounters and moments, but in its very essence, the present moment which goes on.Īs we have traveled away from traditional classical music, we have had the privilege to work often with Adam Wiltze and Dustin O’Halloran. But then again, his sound and image are reflected everywhere I turn. I swear every time that pensive piano allows the strings to begin their slow ascent into the vapor of lamentation and grief, I can’t help but almost choke up with the memories of Johann. It is both representative of our past as classically trained and active musicians and our break with that tradition through extended playing techniques, textural improvisation, and technological advances.
It has a clear ‘intro – theme/development – coda’ structure and dynamically follows a very traditional crescendo to climax format often seen in symphonic writing. In many ways ‘The Witching Hour’ is the most classical work of the album.
The video concept and animation are credited to Florian Guibert. “ And when you write your own music, you can’t help but bring those people with you.” This is especially evident in the achingly beautiful and mournfully devastating piece “The Witching Hour”, which I am happy to present for you today.
“ We spent the last eight years creating music with amazing people, and learning so much,” says Leiter. As you can imagine, when listening to the album, I can’t help but flashback to the times I’ve seen them play and hear the echoes of the great composers they have worked with. For their debut, The See Within, which features all original material, the collective is comprised of Margaret Hermant on violin, Neil Leiter on viola, Charlotte Danhier on the cello, and Gary De Cart on the magnetic resonator piano. After all, this ensemble has collaborated, recorded, and performed with such icons as Jóhann Jóhannsson (see 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann), Erasure (they arranged the strings for World Beyond), and A Winged Victory for the Sullen (see my coverage of their Live at the Round Chapel performance in London). I just want to tell the world about great music! And great music is what the Brussels-based Echo Collective is all about. So is this an album review? A video premiere? A plug for an upcoming release on 7K!? Honestly, at this point, I really don’t care.
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