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This isn't a review, per se, but a look back on all the time we've spent with one of the most-used pieces of tech in our office. Like a good refrigerator or washing machine, devices like the Google Home Max can become so embedded in your day-to-day routine that it becomes easy to forget how exceptional it is. It is easy to get so used to having its proficiency around that you simply forget how good it actually is. So we wanted to take a look back at how we've grown to expect greatness on a daily basis from Google's biggest, baddest speaker.
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back in the fall of 2017 Google began
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producing more of its home speaker
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system so we had the Google home at that
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point but at that event when the pixel
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book was actually announced they also
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announced the Google home Mini which is
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the very first small low-cost speaker
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and then they went on the other side of
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the spectrum and introduced this guy the
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Google home max and at the time it
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launched it for hundred dollars and a
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lot of people wondered whether or not
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they should even buy it or what exactly
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it was for but now that it's been a
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couple years since it's come out and
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we've had one in the office and used it
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every day since we wanted to revisit it
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and see is it still worth buying
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VPN to get started first up let's get
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the technical stuff out of the way we
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haven't reviewed this thing for a couple
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of years and though it's been around I
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don't know how many people have actually
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used it or come into contact with one
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but the general idea here is pretty
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simple you've got a nice sturdy case the
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thing that looks good still a few years
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into its lifespan you've got some touch
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controls on the top for play pause and
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some really excellent speakers on the
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inside inside that box there are a bunch
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of cool tricks that this thing can do as
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well so first up obviously it's a Google
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home speaker so it has the Google
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assistant built-in and it's got
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everything you need to actually take
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advantage of the next-gen Google
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assistant that's supposed to be rolling
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out for home speakers meaning some stuff
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can be stored internally on this thing
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so that it can pull up some responses a
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little bit quicker than normal it can
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also be paired up with like speakers so
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if you had two of these here in the
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Google home app you could actually set
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them up as a stereo pair and stand them
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up on their edges and get full stereo
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separation another trick that it has
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that's probably my favorite thing that
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it does is the ability to use the
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microphones onboard to real-time adapt
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to the room that it's in so whether you
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take it outside or it's in a garage or
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you have it on a shelf it knows how to
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listen to the environment around it hear
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the bass response that's coming back off
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the walls and then adjust an EQ itself
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to sound the best that it can in any
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given room and we've put it in lots of
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different spaces huge room small rooms
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living rooms on shelves and every time
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it seems to adjust itself within just a
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couple minutes to sound like the same
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speaker regardless of the surroundings
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and that speaker is worth replicating in
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different environments because frankly
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it's one of the best speakers I've ever
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listened to I judge every other speaker
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by it at this point so after years of
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having it and having different speakers
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in my own home and hearing speakers at
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Sonos places and at Best Buy's and all
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these things I constantly go back to
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this speaker is like the baseline for
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what things should sound like and I
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can't overstate this enough
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I've listened to lots of speakers and a
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lot of people spend lots of money on
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speakers and yes Google charged $400 for
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this thing out of the gate but in my
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opinion there's very little that can
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compare with the way that this thing
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fills up a room it's loud which is nice
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because you don't really need a bunch of
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them to fill up a large space but it
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also delivers bass responses that
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constantly surprised me just today right
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before filming this we turned on a song
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that I've listened to quite a few times
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in my car and then headphones and I
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heard a bass line on this thing that I'd
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never heard before it didn't sound loud
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and didn't take over the track it just
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added to the overall feel of that piece
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of music and it's just something you
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don't get on a lot of speakers another
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benefit that we have found again in
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real-world use of using this thing day
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in day out is the chromecast ability
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that this thing has and and all home
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speakers have it but being able to cast
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music to this device and even pair it up
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with some other Google homes to kind of
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give a more surround feel in our office
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this thing is a great anchor to cast
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your audio to because again at low
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volumes you still get all the bass
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response you're looking for your music
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is going to sound better at low volumes
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on this speaker than on most speakers
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and so it makes a great companion in the
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office to just sit down I'm getting
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ready to start to write something or
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answer some emails and I just want some
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office filling music hit the cast button
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and boom my audio is playing on it
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instantaneously additionally you can
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hook up to this thing with an auxiliary
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cable which just isn't the case with
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most smart speakers and we've taken full
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advantage of that we actually have it
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placed underneath the TV in the office
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and we've run an aux cable to the
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television and this thing is smart
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enough to understand when inputs coming
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from that or it's coming from a cast
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session or something else and it knows
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to just switch back and forth so if we
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have music playing in the office I tap
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the top to pause the music and then we
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start a cast video up on the television
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as soon as it starts outputting audio to
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it it just picks up on it and we can
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turn it up and listen and you know
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watching trailers or watching a handful
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of clips from like action shows or
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something like that sound pretty amazing
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on this you're not going to get some
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wide stereo separation or any folk
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surround sound but in general it just
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sounds really awesome
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and the final connectivity option that
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most people don't even know
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on this thing is it has bluetooth now
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there's no button on here so there's no
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quick way to turn it on but in the
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Google home app you connect to it go to
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the settings and click enable bluetooth
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pairing it becomes available to pair and
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you just pair up your phone or whatever
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you need to pair up to it in order to
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play music to it and so it's nice to be
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able to have that option in addition to
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all the other ways you can play music on
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the speaker so with all that said is
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this thing still worth it in 20 20 100
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percent I would say yes especially
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because they've dropped the regular
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price from 399 down to $2.99 so for 300
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bucks now you can snag this thing any
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day of the week and from pretty much any
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retailer you want to go get it from that
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doesn't mean it's not going to go on
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sale though because back in December
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just a month ago
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Walmart was selling this and a Google
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home Mini for a hundred and eighty eight
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dollars so if you're thinking about it
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you're kind of on the fence I would say
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wait until you see it go on sale I have
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no idea what it's selling for as we're
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filming this video I know right now it
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is going for $300 but as you're watching
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this it could be $200 or 250 or $1.99
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who knows I would say any of those
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prices it's worth it if you buy it for
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$300 you're not going to be let down if
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you're into speakers and you're into
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great sound and you want something that
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sounds really awesome but all the
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benefits it offers and all the things
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that it brings you from a connectivity
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standpoint it's just an easy recommend
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especially with good speakers coming out
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that do a bunch of the same stuff like
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the one we saw at CES from Belkin I'm
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sure it's going to be a great smart
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speaker and it's going to do a lot of
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cool things from a connectivity
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standpoint but it's all the same things
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that this does granted the Belkin has a
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wireless charger for your phone you can
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drop in but as good as it sounds I
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guarantee you if we put them in a room
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together and listen this is going to be
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a better sounding speaker there are a
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few speakers on the market period that
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sound better than this thing Google just
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knocked it out of the park so if you're
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thinking about getting a smart speaker
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you want something that sounds really
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awesome and has a nice set of
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connectivity features this thing still
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does it in 2020 and it's still gonna do
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it for a long time I mean there's really
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nothing aging on this speaker and we
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love it maybe more now than we did even
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when it launched if you've even ever
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thought about picking up a Google home
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max even at full price but especially on
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sale I
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say you need to jump on that but guys
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