Amazon Echo Gen 1 Pictures

Amazon Alexa Echo Gen 1 smart speaker, showing the Mic as off, mic mute on, as Indicated by the red light ring.

We’ve taken many pictures of the Amazon Echo gen 1 smart speaker, and its power plug, for the various posts we’re writing about this smart speaker. We’ve placed all those photos here in this post, for quick and easy viewing.

Amazon Echo Gen 1 Pictures: Playing a Song

First, this speaker is a tall tube. We have the white version. But it also comes in black. It has holes all the way around along the bottom third of this tube, to let the sound out. Indeed, this gives the impression that the speaker gives truly 360 degree sound. That’s where the sound comes out equally in all directions. We’ve found that while this is true for the midrange and treble sounds, much of the bass only comes from the rear of the speaker.

Amazon Echo Gen 1 smart speaker, front view.

Adjusting the Volume

Second, there’s a ring on the top that you can spin left and right, to adjust output volume. The ring spins all the way around, without a stop at the lower and upper ends of the volume range. So, there’s nothing to break like there was in older volume controls. In those, if you turned the knob too hard past the stop, you could break the volume control.

Not that case here though. Even when you hit the low and high volume levels, the control can still turn further.

The smart speaker showing its light ring while rotating volume ring. This causes the lights to increase or decrease in brightness.

Then, this next picture shows a purple arrow, pointing at the volume ring. The volume ring is plenty wide enough for sure fingertip grasping. Plus, its satin-like finish means that your fingers will slip not at all when turning it.

The volume ring at the top of the unit highlighted.

Preparing for a Hard Reset on the Amazon Echo Gen 1

Third, to effect a hard reset on this speaker, you first must find the reset button. It’s located on the under side, inside a small hole, labeled RESET.

Bottom view of the speaker, showing the -Reset- button location Highlighted.

The Microphone is Muted

Next, you know when the mic is muted or OFF, when the light ring on the speaker glows red, as shown in the next picture.

The smart speaker with the microphone muted, showing the mic as OFF, as Indicated by the red light ring.

The Amazon Echo Gen 1 Power Adapter

Further, this is how the speaker looks, sitting on a bathroom sink vanity, plugged in, powered up. Unless you’re talking through its phone link or Alexa is listening once you summon her, there’s no light to show that power is ON.

Amazon Echo Gen 1 smart speaker with its AC power adapter plugged in.

Indeed, the Echo 1 has modest power specs when you take into account what it does, as shown by the prongs plate on its power adapter.

AC power adapter for the speaker, showing its label-prong side.

Next, the DC output plug is your typical power jack.

Power cord DC output barrel connector for the Amazon Alexa Echo Gen 1 smart speaker, laying against a ruler.

Furthermore, the jack seems quite small, given the load this speaker draws. However, we’ve seen no warming of this plug with the speaker powered up. Curious how the center conductor here, that seems so small, can carry the current needed for this speaker. Yet it does.

Amazon Echo smart speaker AC power cord, showing the DC output barrel connector hole, top view, against a ruler.

Finally, the power plug part is lightweight given its size. This switching power supply is much lighter than those transformer based plugs of decades past.

The AC power plug and cord, showing the wall part, held In hand.