welcome to ShortCircuit oh that's heavy that's a lot heavier than i
thought it would be what's in this mystery box i don't know
but it's fragile like my ego please be nice
hey Linus we're excited to share with you the latest 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
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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
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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
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