Hello everyone, thanks for tuning in again. I'm here today to get what you can
see is the Amazon Echo Sub all set up in my home, unboxed, opened up, so you can see
how this whole system works together. Now I have an Echo Plus here that I'm going
to connect it with, so let's get going.
Alright now first things first, you kind of have to understand the magnitude of
this device, this is quite heavy, it is the first home automation device that I
can actually say when I picked it up I kind of grimaced a little bit, so let's
get it opened up here. It's very simple packaging and I like that from Amazon
here, there's not a lot to this so as soon as you get the box opened up you
can see there's a nice wrapper around that box and you can probably see me
having to hold this up is a little bit difficult. Now ultimately you pull it out
with this bag and I'm gonna set it down on the table right here, let's go ahead
now and get this opened up, you can see the bag actually does say Echo Sub on it,
so quite a nice bag, and maybe something you want to keep after this. So here we
go the Sub has come out. Alright now when we
talk about this device you can see clearly this is a large device, when
we're thinking about home automation it is certainly a lot bigger than even the
Amazon Echo Plus which is sitting right here next to me, and it absolutely dwarfs
a little Echo Dot. Now physically it's quite heavy and let me show you some of
the details here on the top of the device. You can see it's just that matte
finish, the other thing is the cloth finish around the entire device quite
nice looking as far as I'm concerned, now the only real feature here on the bottom
there is the logo, the Amazon logo. I know I got it upside down but that's because
I want to show you here where they tell you to look at the Quick Start Guide, so
when you peel off that sticker these are your
only pieces or differences on the whole surface, otherwise it's just that matte for a
surface and the cloth surface here. So now the other component in the box is a
power cable and this is going to work along with your Amazon Echo Sub here but
ultimately this cable it is long enough it's about five feet long so it's almost
my full wingspan here and it's just a standard power cable so that's just to
plug it in I'm gonna get it plugged in and then we're gonna set it up alright
now as soon as I plugged it in here there is a little LED on that little
action button on the back that is just above the power cord so I did want to
tell you that's what that button is it's an action button so we're just going
through the boot up process I'm sure we're gonna get a sound here pretty soon
alright now I waited about 30 seconds and what's important to keep in mind
here the little LED was flashing but I have already in my home put in
credentials in order to set up my echo plus and my echo dot here I've already
put in credentials to my Wi-Fi and save those to Amazon this when I purchased it
from Amazon showed right up in the application I'm not going to say the
voice assistants name but in that application I had already seen this
device show up it's not set up it's not online but it says it's offline and so
when I ordered it Amazon's putting it right into the application before it
leaves and comes to my home now something I didn't expect about this is
there was no sound that actually signified that this was set up so I'm
going to go into my application here and again I'm not going to say the voice
assistants name but we're in that application and I'm going to go straight
into the home control side of the application so that's bottom right down
in the right corner of the application here and when I get there I'm going to
tap on echo and Alexa so there you go you can see Brian's Echo Sub and it's
telling you that it's already set up so again I've done nothing
now if you did struggle here for any reason the setup process I have in my
echo plus setup video here that will work I'll put that in the top right of
the application right now and so you'll be able to go to that video and see
basically a factory reset how would you do a reset on this device it's basically
that button on the back you're going to hold it and wait for it to reset
essentially so now moving on let's go into the Echo Sub device settings here
and we'll walk through those really quickly now you can see here the Wi-Fi
network and if it's auto tried to sign in to a Wi-Fi network that you've
changed the password on or that basically does not exist any longer you
moved whatever it is you can it change rate there and you're going to be able
to adjust that now there's also connected devices
sounds and the Do Not Disturb mode a little bit different when we consider an
Echo Sub it's not a standard speaker so it's not going to be producing those
same sorts of sounds so let's go through it the speaker pair is ultimately what I
think everyone wants to set up so I have my echo plus sitting here I now have my
Echo Sub sitting here I tapped on speaker pair and you can get there a
different way so let me show you but this brought up the setup screen so I'm
gonna hit cancel there and I'm going to go back all the way to my home control
screen here and talk right the plus I'm gonna hit that and you can see add
stereo pair slash subwoofers so I'm going to tap on that and we're back to
that same screen so let's go ahead and hit continue and now I can select
speakers to connect so what it's showing me are the different speakers that I can
connect in my household and create basically a two point one or a one point
one speaker system here so let's go ahead and let's add everyone to this mix
here the Echo plus and you can see it eliminated the echo dot as compatible
those two speakers are now going to be tied together
a 1.1 configuration if I had another echo plus I could do that you can go
ahead and you can create these pairs and we're going to see the results of that
here right after this so it's just pairing the two speakers I'm just
sitting here there's nothing I have to do there's no interaction here again
this isn't ultimately an incredibly easy setup and if I was to show you the
entire setup process this connected on its own to my Wi-Fi this connected on
its own to my Wi-Fi and I had to hit that plus button in the stereo pair
button and pick those two speakers and now I'm creating a 1.1 speaker system
now what Amazon will tell you is that if you want to create a different pairing
you can go ahead and do that but you have to delete this speaker set first so
if I wanted to use my echo dot for any reason I would have to go ahead and
delete that pairing first this original pairing now let's go ahead and of course
what do we want to do we want to test this out so let's get it tested down
here at the bottom of the application you can see the Sub pair if you ever
wanted to go in and delete that you could but now I'm going to move over
here to Amazon music inside of Amazon music here you can see that I've brought
up a song and I've started playing it on my iPhone now when I tap down at the
bottom on what looks to be a cast icon when you tap on that you end up in this
menu and you can see the echo plus 2 and I'm going to choose that for right now
and just show you the demo of that
now that you've heard what that sounds like let's tap on the cast button again
hit disconnect and you do have to disconnect first then you hit the cast
button again here and you go to your sub pair so that's the name that you're
going to use in order to connect to both of your speakers and now let's hear the
difference in sound alright so I want to give you my initial reaction because
this is the first time I've paired these two devices and I had to play a song
with a little more bass to it and I couldn't obviously play a lot of that
track for you because it is copyrighted material now what I'll tell you is the
addition of this sub was exactly what you're expecting it to be it was on
target for exactly what I've had from every other sub in my life but the
difference is I'm now controlling it through this so I can always ask my
Amazon Echo Plus or Echo or Echo Dot to play on the sub pairing that I create
and obviously if I could want to create a two point one speaker system I can go
ahead and do that today so all you need are the devices here so there you go
everyone there's my setup there's my unboxing I think this is quite the
interesting device from Amazon and it creates a whole new dimension when
you're talking about Amazon music and you know the fire TV sticks and all of
that capability that they're moving forward with this is quite the new
device so thanks for watching everyone we'll see you next time