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Google has sent us over the Google Home Max and we're getting it out of the box, set up, and playing a sample. Is this thing worth $399?
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hey folks probably paying with chroma
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and boxed and today we're gonna be
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unboxing the Google home max now Google
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has sent this to us it's actually a
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brand new box I thought we were gonna
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get just a review unit but it's actually
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brand new so we're gonna open it up and
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take a look and kind of get first blush
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and this is really my first blush take
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because even with the events we've been
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to I haven't really spent any time with
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this device so I really have no idea
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what to expect but the boxing the the
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branding on it is very similar there we
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go oh wow it's really heavy up top okay
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there's nothing else in there wow it's
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really heavy so I think on the spec
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sheet it says it weighs somewhere around
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12 pounds and it feels like it all of it
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but very well-constructed probably some
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good size magnets in that bad boy now
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one of the cool things about this is the
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little pad on the bottom is magnetic so
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it actually just kind of comes off and
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flops around I'm not really sure how
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they have a magnet that's that bendable
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but cool and so that becomes the foot it
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also should work I think down the side
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yeah so if you have a pair of them and
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they pair up they realize that they're
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stereo speakers so you can have that
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your DJ table or whatever but for us
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we're happy to have just the one here
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and really put that foot back on again
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that gives it a little bit of separation
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from the table dampens any sound that
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would reverberate down into whatever
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surface you set it on so it serves quite
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a few purposes that does not mean that
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if you were to take it off here I like
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it's gonna stop working but it slides
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around much easier without that there
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and again it's probably going to sound
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better with it on there that's a pretty
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cool thing
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let's look around here real quick
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there's not much going on it's you know
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it's Google home it's meant to be simple
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but we have a slide bar right here
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across the top and basically you can
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slide this for volume control all the
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way across and obviously tap here in the
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center for play pause that's it that's
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all that serves for but if it looks good
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and it's very simple you know no one's
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gonna get this out of box and I wonder
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what this does I mean they're gonna
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figure that out pretty quick we're gonna
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try it out in a second well you also
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have is multiple microphone holes so
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there's two over here and two here I
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think that's it basically what those
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serve as and what Google has touted and
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what they're saying this will do we're
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gonna review it and really put it
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through some paces to see but it's a
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$400 speaker so if you're just gonna use
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it to control smart home stuff it seems
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like kind of a poor investment however
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this is really really a nice speaker
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unit as well so this is for the people
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that want Google home but they want it
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in a very very nice set of speakers and
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so what it does is it uses these
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microphones to actually hear how bass is
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reverberating through the room and then
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it adjusts the way that the speaker's
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function on behalf of the room and so
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within 20 or 30 seconds you can take it
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into a different room it's too close to
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this wall or it's farther away it's in
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the middle of the room or it's outside
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and it should actually adjust for the
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best settings for that room again we're
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gonna test that we're gonna we're gonna
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move it into different rooms and and
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kind of try to trick it basically and
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see how it works but for today we're
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just taking a look yeah and around the
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back let's talk about that real quick so
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you get the the power here USB see I'm
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not actually real sure right off the top
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of my head exactly what you would do
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with that maybe you could just use it as
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a charging dock perhaps that'll be a
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further use down the road and then
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probably a hard reset button would be my
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guess on there and and then this is your
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mic switch so you can actually mute the
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microphone if you feel like there's any
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issues where it's listening too much but
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for the hardware I mean that's that's
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really good I mean it's pretty
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straightforward unassuming and it's
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really gonna come in just blend in
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wherever you put it the rest of the box
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here
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again very nice packaging they're just
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not much in it power cable and kind of a
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get started
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card but again we're going to turn it on
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and basically open the Google home app
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and it'll set itself up pretty much it's
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if you've ever set up any Google home
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device many any of those things they're
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they're real straightforward and simple
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so we're gonna take a quick break and at
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least go ahead and get it set up because
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that's not really a unique thing to the
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Google home acts that was the Waco home
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to get started download the Google home
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app on a phone or tablet alright so
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we're back and we got it set up within
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just a couple minutes and honestly could
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have almost just kept rolling because
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it's so simple the Google home app sees
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the device walks you through the setup
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and and you're good it's on the Wi-Fi
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now we can talk to it hey Google what's
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the weather like outside currently in
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Elizabethtown it's 51 and sunny today
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it'll be clear with a forecasted high of
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51 and a low of 33 so right you know it
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does all the same thing that Google how
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many regular Google home big ones they
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all that stuff's gonna be the same so
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it's gonna be able control all the same
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stuff all of that the same what sets
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this apart is its prowess as a speaker
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now we did figure out the hole in the
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back is an auxiliary port so you know if
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you got like a cool vinyl set up and you
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want to run something like that
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something that's analog out into the
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speaker you can take advantage of it
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that way too
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the other one it's just a hard reset
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button and that kind of stuff so down on
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the bottom just because people really
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get into this will peel the sticker off
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and that's where your little magnet goes
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but that's really not the sound we're
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here for so before we move on to
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anything else I just want to show you or
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let you hear technically how good this
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thing sounds no setup no EQ nothing we
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just downloaded one of the tracks off
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YouTube you're allowed to use without
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attribution or anything like that but
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I'm going to give some attribution if
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you ever search in that it's the artist
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name is Otis and most his stuff on there
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is really awesome we use it in a lot of
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our videos anyway so I'm just gonna hit
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play and hopefully if you got some
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earphones on hopefully our our mic setup
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is picking this up pretty well but
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this thing sounds incredible
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[Music]
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so as you can see I'm kind of sliding my
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hand across the top and we saw that
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earlier in the video just a big volume
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slider in the center and I don't know if
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this is gonna pause I'm playing this
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from like a web browser and then casting
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it so the play/pause probably won't work
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quite properly but I kind of like this
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is background audio I finished talking
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look this is $399 and we're gonna put it
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through its paces and give it proper
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review treatment and do all that kind of
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stuff so that you can decide whether or
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not this is for you but here's what I
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can tell you right now if you're not
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really into speakers and really in the
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sound and and really care how a speaker
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sounds particularly I really don't think
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this is a device for you maybe if it
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comes down to like three hundred or two
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hundred fifty dollars maybe what I tell
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you is I am really into speakers I am
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really in having awesome sound and so
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one of my fears is with this device is
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after reviewing it I'm gonna want it and
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once Google wants this one back I'm
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gonna be out four hundred bucks to go
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buy one but it's it sounds just amazing
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and it's cool that you can have a device
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that looks this good kind of blends in
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Auto eq's does all that kind of cool
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stuff but then can also hopefully you
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can see this light over in the corner
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can do things like this hey Google turn
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off the big light kind of cool and you
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know as more smart-home things show up
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by the way that's a leo box we we put
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that in a review in another video we'll
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put the link down below and in the
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description so you can kind of see it's
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just a Wi-Fi socket that you can tell
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Google home to control but as more
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things become available to use with
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Google home it's just gonna be able
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control more and more stuff but again
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remember it's a great great speaker with
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some cool other features built in we
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will get to everything and we'll try it
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multiple rooms and all that kind of
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stuff in the floor view but just know
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it's it's a smart speaker that does what
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other smart speakers do from Google but
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it sounds really incredible at first
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blush and so it'll be interesting to
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spend more time with it and of course
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after we do we'll put out a review so
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that you maybe make a purchasing
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decision based on it guys if you like
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this give it a thumb
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hit that subscribe button below until
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next time we'll see you
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