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from made by google nest audio google's newest smart speaker is especially designed to take your music experience to a whole new level nest audio sound is clear natural and full and is 75 louder and has a 50 stronger base than the original google home okay interesting i guess they don't want to leave the nest what how is it still in there look at how why is it so hard to open google i want to unbox your product ah there she blows the nest audio comes in five great colors which is sage sand sky chalk and charcoal and we got the chalk and the sage this is a big heavy box this is substantial i can feel the base well they're all kind of like a a washed out color because that's like their that's their whole thing they go for this kind of muted aesthetic right it's my style you know it's minimalist they're the type of speakers that that fit well into actually my my apartment and if you want to check out what my apartment aesthetic is like go check out the Intel extreme upgrade on my on my place so what google is doing with this one i think is mainly trying to replace the original google home this one has two speakers it's got a woofer and a tweeter whereas the original google home just had one uh speaker it's an improvement in that regard and obviously it's updated with all of the new you know google assistant stuff that maybe uh you know the old google home is catching up with a little bit this is like the nest product this is part of google's uh transition from the google home brand over to the nest brand and i think that the last remaining google home product that's on sale is the google home max let's open her up shall we there's a couple of new features also that google has added that other of their audio products has not had have not had which include some smart eq modes so there's a media eq mode which should wow that's heavy uh which says that it's supposed to adjust the eq based on what you're listening to and then there's an ambient eq mode that adjusts the sound based on what's happening in the environment so that's pretty cool and we're going to take a look at that but first let's find out what we got in the box but before we do that we gotta talk about our sponsor vessy footwear bessie makes shoes that are both comfortable and functional they're waterproof sandproof and slushproof plus being lightweight and breathable they also got everyday styling so they can fit almost any occasion and if you use the offer code ShortCircuit you can get 25 off on all of their sneakers so check them out today let's get it started in ha um so this is like a quick start guide that i probably don't need to look at because i have a google nest hub non-max in my house so i'll figure it out being part of your home means respecting your privacy so that's a you know this is a big thing i guess they're they have to address this head-on because in the past couple years uh that's been an issue so staying along the privacy attack for a second these have a mute switch on the back a mic mute switch so you can set that in the settings or you can also have a hardware switch to turn the mic off completely the power adapter and cord oh it's not a usb-c it's a barrel charger interesting they look real nice i gotta say i i was a big fan as soon as google started putting out products with this sort of like fabric weave design and uh it remains really cool looking now one thing i didn't mention is that this uh product kind of sits in the middle of google's new audio lineup so they got the nest mini and that is 69 this thing is 99 another thing about this design is that i as i mentioned it's flat the original google home was like circular cylindrical this one is more flat because i think that google recognized that you don't need to have 360 sound like no one's taking a speaker and just like plopping it in the direct center of their room and they're like that's where it is so they're like okay most people are going to be having a direction you know facing a direction anyway so like you can put one there you can put one here because they also support stereo sound we're gonna test that out okay so we've set up nest audio speaker number one before we test out the stereo setup we're just going to test out just the one speaker in in isolation um i've already connected it and everything we've got crab rave ready up to go so i'm going to use the on device controls i almost said on screen controls but there's no screen you can play and pause just by tapping on the top once and volume up and down on the sides so play also i need to like face it at me so i get a oh that's wow that's very different like from when i face it away it sounds way more muffled than like facing it towards me song is so stupid but it's great definitely a lot of bass oh whoa whoa whoa that's max volume that's pretty good that gets pretty loud i can only imagine what it's gonna be like with with uh two of them now maybe this is just the song but like i feel like i heard a bit more separation between the the lows and the highs there um maybe that's just cause i know that this thing has a woofer and a tweeter okay here we go stereo stereo mode is it gonna drop again though i fear for my eardrums so i'm gonna stop that it's a good good amount of audio levels there wow what the heck is going on hi Linus what is this sorry we're just having a bit of a crab rave you ready to get blown away wow suffice to say it's got a lot of power with one and if you pair it up for stereo sound that's that's that'll get any rave going all the way to into next week yeah i mean definitely a lot of bass i don't i i had a little bit of experience with the google home but i can't say off the top of my head whether it's like significantly better although my heart tells me that it is left channel right this is the left you already said that okay so we know speaker works because james made me test the the stereo setup with a stereo test track it's not dual mono yes okay so one of the last things that i wanted to like test with these things is their media eq and ambient eq um so i'm gonna go into the eq settings in the app let's see if it changes um yeah i guess there's not really a way i can test that that media eq or ambient eq oh maybe i should play podcast oh i just heard about this really cool new movie podcast called carpool critics movie podcast you should subscribe on youtube and on all your podcast platforms let's check that out from moviemaking perspective the the gauntlet is such a sweet kind of mcguffin it's actually all these like nested mcguffins so again mcguffins are the thing that you want in pulp fiction it's the briefcase so the ultimate example of that would be in pulpit is it james it sounds like james he does yeah it does sound pretty nice sounds pretty crisp so i guess they have these eq features these like eq automatic uh customization features that you can't really test but that you just like have to kind of take their word that it's there apparently this speaker and amazon echo speakers as well like smart speakers in general a lot of them have this feature where you kind of like over time they adjust to the space anyways so on top of that they're saying that they also have this media eq feature that will adjust to the media you're playing and ambient eq which will adjust to the environment although i think ambient eq only works for podcasts strangely i mean so maybe that's a point for you you're like hey that's a cool feat that sounds like a cool feature i want this speaker now but like you you kind of gotta take google at the word that it's there and it's working i guess the other interesting thing about this speaker is that you know google is kind of upping their game with uh the the smart speaker uh market they're sonos that exists that their whole this is their whole deal but their cheapest speaker is the sonos one and it's 199. this thing is a hundred dollars less so you could get two of these speakers and put them in stereo configuration and uh have a bump in good time in your in your living room for the price of one of sonos for the price of the sonos one one of sonos ones someone else's ones i like the idea i have a as i said i have a home mini i have a nest hub and this is definitely something that i might consider to kind of like pad out uh flesh out my whole home audio setup and also you can't beat the look they look real nice and as a minimalist sort of i like it so thanks for sending this google it was fun to play around with are we going to set them up in the office somewhere are we going to put these in the lounge no david's going to try to take one home no surreptitiously no wait you don't want it looks like a giant airpods case you don't like the way it looks no and you know what else would be nice subscribing to ShortCircuit the unboxing channel where we get we take everything out of the box not just the product but also our opinions"}