Amazon Echo II Teardown & Review

Today I teardown the new Amazon Echo II and do a short review on what I like and don't like about this little speaker.
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[@DowieFarm]

Thanks man. I was able to disassemble and, dry out, and reassemble successfully after my Echo took a fully submerged dive at my grow room into a reservoir! Saved me $80!

[@WeeGeordie]

Hey Kirby, I recently discovered your channel. You have a real talent for video production and a great personality as a presenter, not to mention your talents at speaker design and production. Also, you seem like a very nice young man. Thanks for your videos, and good luck in future endeavours.

[@JustEnjoyingLife73]

Thank you for making this. Some substance filled all the mic openings of my Echo (cookie dough maybe? it was in the kitchen), so I had to open mine up to clean them out. Your video made it so easy!

[@thebemitroll10]

Would be so cool if you made your own custom amazon echo. like a batter sounding vertion too!

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

Gonna make my own bigger and better version of the Echo with a Dot! Thanks for watching!

[@waynepassant5076]

When you going to make this?

[@MrFreakwent]

Cool teardown! I don't want one -too limited in sound - but I was curious too. Thanks!

[@bwhite220]

Dude, with your talent, you should take Alexa apart and then use the individual pieces to make a Walnut box with maple accents that contains Alexa​.

[@ktb133T]

YES!!!!!!

[@wood-be-good3752]

Brandon White .... my too - would be a good „evolution“ of Alexa 😁

[@eatdrinkwineguy]

Do it!

[@ThePiattat88]

with better sound quality!

[@angelusherath1921]

@Kirby Meets Audio I was wondering about what you plug the speakers into. I am very confused about it so help is appreciated.

[@bowenliu5450]

Nice work! I wonder is that possible to add a line-in (I do not need the AUX OUT)?

[@262enrico]

What should I do to prevent the sound from being interrupted by the loudspeaker from plugging in the headphones?

[@jeffmee763]

I've got one with a bad board that won't go not the internet can I use a echo dot board so I can use the good speakers thanks. Jeff

[@DigitalKudzu]

How hard would it be to upgrade Alexa with a quality tweeter/6.5” speaker? Bigger tube & keep the original UI.

[@wemel007]

pleeeeaaaaase in the next teardown show (in a corner of the video or something) the sound response charts of the pink noise at different stages of the decontruction. i'm super interested in how the speaker would response without 'crucial' parts like the dome in this instance.

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

That’s a pretty cool idea! Thanks for watching!

[@optimusprime708]

will cleaning the speaker rubber with tap water, damage the rubber over time? getting worried. thanks

[@jordanhatch6029]

What microphone and ipad app are you using to do the audio analysis?

[@alexblaga2297]

Can amazon echo work as speaker without alexa processor? As simply speaker with wire jack 3.5??

[@michaeltown1648]

Congrats on the re-assembly. I always have screws left over. :)

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

Hahaha I was so worried about that. I was actually shocked at how easy this teardown was! Thanks for watching!

[@sallyvaldez753]

Ya Know We Will 😅

[@valramos2003]

Any idea if there's a hard reset button? The mute + volume down button combination isn't working for me. The echo is stuck in spinning blue and cyan lights. :(

[@DungHo-ni6ei]

Should take those parts to put together and make your own box and speaker.

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

I think i'm gonna make my own. Little bigger, little better, with and amazon Echo Dot on top. Thanks for watching!

[@DungHo-ni6ei]

Kirby Meets Audio sometime I feel like just buying the spare parts on eBay, like the jbl charge with all the amps, battery’s, and charging port and make my own box and speaker to build my own Bluetooth speaker, with all the features it has already like adding a app and make it stereo. On another note, if you do hack up the home pod, used all those part and add it to your own home pod build. So that we don’t see anything go to waste.

[@jburnes41]

they serve their purpose. i use mine all of the time. i use it in my home automation. i use it for the things i use to search for. i use it to listen to the radio staions i love listening to.

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

Yeah, I’ve really grown to enjoy it. I use it a lot to pick and play music. Thanks for watching!

[@twmax4137]

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH I HAVE BEEN DYING TO SEE WHAT THE INSIDE OF THIS THING LOOKS LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@platinumheritage2320]

Does anyone know where I can get the Amazon Echo - 1st Generation power board? Thanks

[@kristincowart1111]

Luv your videos, Kirby! Luv Alexa, too. What's the music playing at the end of the video?

[@ImpulseAudioSpeakers]

Great review. I've been looking forward to it since your instagram posts.

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

Thanks Ryan!

[@twmax4137]

Does it have a piezo tweeter or a regular tweeter?

[@shaneb1501]

Would you be willing to make a set of full size floorstanding speakers? With a 10 or 12" woofer? I'd love to see what you could come up with!!

[@mongo2044]

Has anyone figured out what DAC is in this? To get from whatever Amazon sends, it needs to convert to analog. I don't think it is integrated into the amp so, it has to be under that upper tier encased and heatsink run chip.

[@KINGWOLF-mv9gj]

Are use this video to wire a 5 inch speaker kicker to be exact I would like to thank you

[@karimrasd335]

Hay Kirby if you can do me a favor could you please tell me where you got those coffee and tea ceramic jars I’ve been looking for them for about a year or so as in since the video has came out(long time subscriber) could you please help me find them?

[@Flipperklinik]

Thx! Alexa was wet after Rainnight. Now works again! 💪👍

[@dhanapalrajendran1397]

Hi where can I get the Basilisk AMP board V3.0

[@djijspeakerguy4628]

The sound change was just a different component. The first echo 2s had the original echo woofer, now it is made by a better brand name. I forget if it was peerless or fostex, something along those lines.

[@Honey_BEE_Flo]

Does anyone know what power input pin it uses called as?

[@angelusherath1921]

When is the DIY Speaker series going to continue

[@TheJohdu]

if you messure from that close you will ignore the baffle reflection which results in the baffle step not showing in the graphs.

[@markoduvall]

Thanks Kirby, I also agree with folks below. You should beef this up a bit with a solid mono enclosure made from...bananas, or some type of wood.

[@MaxRenolds]

Great video!!

[@Brandon-gt5hs]

You should do a video how to DIY mount the Echo Dot 3 to a wall by simply drilling a small hole to the bottom back portion. There is ample space for a screw head to fit. The new Google Nest Mini has this as an updated feature.

[@neilburns6118]

Wow!!! Best video I have seen so far for stripping down an Amazon Echo 2nd generation. I bought two from a seller on Ebay. They fire up but neither transmit any Wi-fi to your router to enable a connection to them. Reason being is that whom ever bought them originally never connected them to their Wi-fi. Why would anyone do that though?!! So, I was considering making a video myself of a strip down. What video editor do you use by the way? Found the music annoying at either end but hey!!! Loved the video and thank you.

[@djijspeakerguy4628]

Looks quite like the gen 2 dot I have on the inside, just with a bigger speaker.

[@AlejandroA2023]

excelente video!! asi no pierdo garantías!!

[@lfmoliveira1]

That's actually very entertaining. Good one.

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

Thanks for watching!

[@BryanHancocks]

I'm a little scared... We've got lights... Alexa... We've got... SCREEEEEAAAMMMIINNGGG!

[@kraio-sfu]

See any UARTs in there?

[@henrylopezyt2136]

Up date for 2020 it has a eq control to sute you likeing

[@jcmexfreestyle]

how could i convert .. a wireless speaker(not bluetooth)... to bluetooth

[@sl1mp509]

Man, please I need a favor, could you check with Polk Audio team, wants the problem with the command bar not starting... Could you do that.. as this sound bar is famous now a day's , because of Alexa's integration. Thank you!! Great video!

[@tenspeedtears]

Coolio!! BTW the shirts rock!!

[@Post_Oak_]

Can you do a turtlebox gen 2 teardown?

[@bobbyrowan]

Man, you really should do tear down videos for ifixit. Between your quality and the music you throw in videos, it'd be 👌👌👌

[@Roughsketcmkr]

where is the battery pack?

[@pattyann8661]

i got a question,, by the power plug on the base of the amazon echo 2nd gen,, the AUX OUT,, would you know if that would be stereo or mono. i understand that you said there is a TI mono amplifier chip and i understand thats for powering the sub and tweeter,, but AUX OUT would be low level non amplified and in this case would the AUX OUT might any chance be in stereo.

[@philthunder]

It's stereo

[@the_lancaster_libertarian]

Theres some interesting sh---stuff in there. Im interested in the beats pill+ tear down. I have one and it sounds pretty decent! It was free99 at a company picnic.

[@Jordan469011]

Wonder if it would help to put a little poly fil behind the woofer

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

Whyyyyy didn’t I think of this!?!? Great idea! I’m really interested in if it’ll make a noticeable difference. I’m gonna test this and report back. Thanks! 🙏

[@aallien]

Please do, that was comment also. I'm very curious what it will do to the frequency response.

[@10jmsoccer]

Should do a segment where you take tweeters / woofers from existing products like this and re purpose them into a customer box to get better sound out of them.

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

It’s pretty hard to design for reused speakers unless you can find TS parameters for the drivers. Thanks for watching!

[@hellojits]

I think you should teardown allocacoc audiocube, see what's inside that speaker for really amazing sound quality

[@p_mouse8676]

Btw. The extra magnet is not for shielding purposes. It's for changing the parameters slightly. Or in other words it's a cheap way to change the speaker a little. Electronics don't care about magnet field. The passives are for the class-d output and for enough buffering for the power supply.

[@dakotaaverill]

I liked it, if you can afford it, do more! I like the normal builds too of course.

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

I'll try to keep doing these! They're pretty fun. Thanks for watching!

[@mikekowalchuk6802]

Good idea for content

[@LaneLarson]

This guy is good!

[@dj2bahador]

please do an I loud micro monitor

[@mbjlukas]

my wife left this product (Gen 2) out in the rain, and does not work anymore (no power). Is it worth trying to fix it ?

[@valramos2003]

An earlier comment says the echo was disassembled, dried out, reassembled and started working again. Worth the shot imo.

[@cekpi7]

Why is it so bad at highs even with that silk dome tweeter? is it becouse its not pointed anywhere or?

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

The highs actually aren’t bad at all. It’s the low end that I didn’t care for. Thanks for what watching!

[@steph291]

thanks a million!

[@midniteoyl8913]

Should have seen what 1/4" or so of poly-fill would have done to the sound..

[@fish9468]

luvit, you should upgrade the speaker and make a new box for it

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

Comin soon! Thanks for watching!

[@Tremendous-News]

Awesome Video Love Watching Your Channel Post More videos👏👋👍👌🙌👏👋👍✌👌

[@djpedrozambone]

Please make a custom Alexa speaker with those parts, thanks Kirby

[@davidbalasco9462]

Watching this with an echo dot within earshot was sort of comical. Great video!

[@dash8brj]

Yes he tripped off my echo plus several times :)

[@Generalms02]

I thought you were going to improve the speakers and make it awesome! Ha ha.... Nice vid.... keep up the good work!

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

That’s for a future video! I’ll be making my own. Thanks for watching!

[@siddharthbadevinod6501]

Hey kerby i messed up my echo please please please please help me out i am in a big trouble bro

[@MrBobWareham]

Good video I was so pleased when you turned the music off

[@ramrodrod]

Those electrolitics are the current pumping devices for the speakers . . . they are not filtering . . .

[@slepro]

Why did you remove your ear rings for the last shoot?

[@KirbyMeetsAudio]

I was listening to music on my headphones between shots and forgot to put em back in. Thanks for watching!

[@EagDesert]

I figured it would have a battery inside of it so that it can continue listening once it's unplugged and pretend to be "off". Also a GPS, and a hidden cam somewhere. This thing creeps me out.

[@venkatjoshi8065]

Where is DSP?

[@mickeygarcia2331_]

For the price, it’s a great speaker in my opinion

[@DJ-Daz]

I challenge you to rebuild it using the PCB and your own speakers/cabinet

[@34Kuro]

I dont think there's a second magnet, that is probably a ferrite core.

[@jimmyjimmy19702010]

I like this guy

[@akidforever92]

if you want to smarten your good sounding speakers just plug in a echo dot

[@martinvaldez8745]

There’s scope for someone to mod that

[@etothejtheta]

That isn't a heat sink, it is an RF shield. It is designed to block WiFi to keep things underneath from going bonkers.

[@PattanapongGap]

thank

[@BlackChucky]

You should make your own version of Alexa

[@Cyberslug1]

The Google Home Max is the best sounding smart speaker.

[@BogdanSerban]

I can imagine Amazon uses these to record ambient conversations and use it for targeted advertising or god knows what.

[@djpedrozambone]

I thought it was only me who bumps the bass an the treble on the car

[@alexfischer9493]

Just tell Alexa to turn down the bass, treble, or midrange to adjust the sound to your liking!

[@Reptilusable]

very intersting and a big thank to not put music in your video I hate! music in explication videos, nevr do that !and it makes for me a high qualty video .

[@ash-man5977]

Amazon and Google should sell a kit that is just the guts of their devices so that you build your own enclousure instead tearing them down of trying to use a raspberry pi. I think more people would purchase a kit just for the fun of it

[@alexpickering7725]

7:33 - "some interesting shi-stuff in there"

[@travisgulley2652]

Use a 5 gallon bucket and use a 12 inch woofer and make a mega amazon echo then it will be bigger than the amazon echo

[@mroz69]

Make a tool box what Alexa and put a hundred 50 watt amps DIY

[@liamandrade5167]

If your looking for a smart speaker the Sonos or Google home max have the best sound quality unless you want to buy a home pod but the home pod is over priced and only can be used if you have Apple music and ios devices and that's lame.

[@ilpatongi]

It's actually "V Shaped"

[@MultiWirth]

how about jbl flip 4 teardown?

[@josephgoodwin3244]

Nice work on keeping the video clean. Language

[@rlorion]

And my lights just came on....ha ha ha.

[@daveygravy2500]

Where’s the hidden CIA microphone at

[@takshpatel6207]

Modify the Alexa for better sound.........