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welcome to ShortCircuit oh that's heavy that's a lot heavier than i

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thought it would be what's in this mystery box i don't know

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but it's fragile like my ego please be nice

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hey Linus we're excited to share with you the latest from made by google nest

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audio google's newest smart speaker is especially designed to take your music

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experience to a whole new level nest audio sound is clear natural and full

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and is 75 louder and has a 50 stronger base than the original google home okay

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interesting i guess they don't want to leave the

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nest what how is it still in there look at

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how why is it so hard to open google i want to unbox your product

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ah there she blows the nest audio

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comes in five great colors

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which is sage sand sky

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chalk and charcoal and we got the chalk

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and the sage this is a big heavy box

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this is substantial i can feel the base

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well they're all kind of like a a washed out color because that's like their

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that's their whole thing they go for this kind of muted aesthetic right

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it's my style you know it's minimalist they're the type of

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speakers that that fit well into actually my my apartment and if you want

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to check out what my apartment aesthetic is like go check out the

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Intel extreme upgrade on my on my place so what google is doing with this one i

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think is mainly trying to replace the original

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google home this one has two speakers it's got a

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woofer and a tweeter whereas the original google home just had

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one uh speaker it's an improvement in that regard and

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obviously it's updated with all of the new you know google assistant

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stuff that maybe uh you know the old google home

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is catching up with a little bit this is like the nest product this is part of

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google's uh transition from the google home brand

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over to the nest brand and i think that

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the last remaining google home product that's on sale is the google home

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max let's open her up shall we there's a

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couple of new features also that google has added

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that other of their audio products has not had have

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not had which include some smart eq modes

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so there's a media eq mode which should

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wow that's heavy uh which says that it's

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supposed to adjust the eq based on what you're

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listening to and then there's an ambient eq mode

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that adjusts the sound based on what's happening in the environment

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so that's pretty cool and we're going to take a look at that but first

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started in ha um so this is like a quick start guide

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that i probably don't need to look at because i have

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a google nest hub non-max

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in my house so i'll figure it out being part of your home means respecting your

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privacy so that's a you know this is a big thing i guess they're they have to address

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this head-on because in the past couple years uh

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that's been an issue so staying along the privacy attack for

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a second these have a mute switch on the back a mic

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mute switch so you can set that in the settings or you can also have a

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hardware switch to turn the mic off

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completely the power adapter and cord

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oh it's not a usb-c it's a barrel charger interesting

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they look real nice i gotta say

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i i was a big fan as soon as google started putting out products with this

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sort of like fabric weave design and uh it remains

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really cool looking now one thing i didn't mention is that this

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uh product kind of sits in the middle of google's new audio lineup so they got

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the nest mini and that is 69 this thing is 99

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another thing about this design is that i as i mentioned it's flat

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the original google home was like circular cylindrical

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this one is more flat because i think that google recognized

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that you don't need to have 360 sound like no one's taking a speaker and just

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like plopping it in the direct center of their room and they're like that's where it is so

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they're like okay most people are going to be having a direction you know

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facing a direction anyway so like you can put one there you can put one here

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because they also support stereo sound we're gonna test that out

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okay so we've set up nest audio speaker

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number one before we test out the stereo setup we're just going to test out just the

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one speaker in in isolation um i've already

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connected it and everything we've got crab rave ready up to go so i'm going to

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use the on device controls i almost said on screen

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controls but there's no screen you can play and pause just by tapping

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on the top once and volume up and down on the sides so play

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also i need to like face it at me so i get a oh

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that's wow that's very different like

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from when i face it away it sounds way more muffled

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than like facing it towards me

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song is so stupid but it's great

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definitely a lot of bass

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oh whoa whoa

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whoa that's max volume

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that's pretty good that gets pretty loud i can only imagine what it's gonna be

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like with with uh two of them now maybe this is just the song but like i feel like i

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heard a bit more separation between the the lows and the highs there

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um maybe that's just cause i know that this thing has a woofer and a tweeter

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okay here we go stereo stereo mode

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is it gonna drop again though

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i fear for my eardrums so i'm gonna stop that

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it's a good good amount of audio levels there

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wow what the heck is going on hi

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Linus what is this sorry we're just having a bit of a crab rave

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you ready to get blown away

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wow suffice to say it's got a lot of power with one and if you pair it up for

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stereo sound that's that's that'll get any rave going all

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the way to into next week yeah i mean definitely a lot of bass i

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don't i i had a little bit of experience with the google home

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but i can't say off the top of my head whether it's like significantly better

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although my heart tells me that it is left

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channel right this

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is the left you already said that okay

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so we know speaker works because james made me test the the stereo setup with a stereo

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test track it's not dual mono yes okay so one of the last things

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that i wanted to like test with these things is their media eq and ambient eq um

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so i'm gonna go into the eq settings in the app let's see

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if it changes

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um yeah i guess there's not really a way i can test that that media eq or ambient

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eq oh maybe i should play podcast oh i just heard about this really cool new movie

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let's check that out from moviemaking perspective

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the the gauntlet is such a sweet kind of

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mcguffin it's actually all these like nested mcguffins so again mcguffins are the

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thing that you want in pulp fiction it's the briefcase so

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the ultimate example of that would be in pulpit is it james

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it sounds like james he does yeah

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it does sound pretty nice sounds pretty crisp

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so i guess they have these eq features

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these like eq automatic uh customization features

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that you can't really test but that you just like have to kind of take their

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word that it's there apparently this speaker and amazon echo

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speakers as well like smart speakers in general a lot of them have this feature where

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you kind of like over time they adjust to the space anyways so on top of that they're saying

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that they also have this media eq feature that will adjust to the media

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you're playing and ambient eq which will adjust to the environment

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although i think ambient eq only works for podcasts strangely

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i mean so maybe that's a point for you you're like hey

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that's a cool feat that sounds like a cool feature i want this speaker now but

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like you you kind of gotta take google at the word that it's there and it's working i

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guess the other interesting thing about this speaker is that

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you know google is kind of upping their game with

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uh the the smart speaker uh

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market they're sonos that exists that their whole this is their whole deal

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but their cheapest speaker is the sonos one

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and it's 199. this thing is

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a hundred dollars less so you could get two of these speakers

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and put them in stereo configuration and uh have a bump in good time in your in

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your living room for the price of one of sonos

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for the price of the sonos one one of sonos ones

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someone else's ones i like the idea i have a

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as i said i have a home mini i have a nest hub and this

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is definitely something that i might consider to kind of like pad out

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uh flesh out my whole home audio setup

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and also you can't beat the look they look real nice

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and as a minimalist sort of

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i like it so thanks for sending this google it was fun to play around with

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are we going to set them up in the office somewhere are we going to put these in the lounge

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no david's going to try to take one home no surreptitiously

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no wait you don't want it looks like a giant airpods case

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you don't like the way it looks no and you know what else would be nice

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