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Originally Posted by ApK
While I must say, I'm generally pretty happy with the way all the Echo devices work throughout my house, I am frequently bewildered at how I can some times near-whisper to the Echo in the bedroom with me, and the response will come from out the door, down the hall from the Dot behind the living room sofa. Some bizarre trick of acoustics? Tech issue? No idea.
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Maybe an inconsistency in the quality of mics they use. My Show 5 can sometimes respond quickly from three feet away. But then the next command gets completely ignored. There have been times when I reached over, picked it up, placed the top of it right next to my mouth, yelled into the mic, and it still took 3 or 4 efforts to get it to light up and respond! The Show 5 is fairly buggy anyway, though mostly those are just minor annoyances, so it could be bad firmware too. Amazon has a history of messing up the FW on devices.