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A4C.com has Google Home Max Smart Speaker w/ Google Assistant (Chalk) for $199.95 - $49.98 w/ discount code SLICK25 = $149.97. Shipping is free.

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Features:
  • Handy personal Google device provides convenient, hands-free Google Assistant functionality virtually anywhere in your home
  • Provides Smart Sound to automatically tune to any room
  • Plays music from YouTube Music and Google Play Music or streams audio directly from your phone
  • Streams videos to your TV with Chromecast
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$150 + free s/h w/ code SLICK25

this deal matches previous fp price, although we have not seen this price in the last 3-4 months (from reliable sellers)
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In case anybody's thinking about pulling the trigger on this, you should know there's a long-standing bug that causes the Home Max to frequently drop its WiFi connection. You can search for "Google Home Max keeps dropping wifi" and find a huge thread dating back a couple years, if you want to verify. Google knows about the problem, but hasn't done anything to solve it, and it's a lot more annoying than you might think it'd be.

Anyway, there's an easy solution that works for several people, including me: if your access point supports a 5GHz band, just put the Home Max on it, with no other devices.

If your AP doesn't support 5GHz, I'd seriously think twice about purchasing this, even at this discount. It'll drive you absolutely nuts.
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Sound is fantastic on this. Built in assistant is a bonus, but great to have in the family room. Frozen II soundtrack never sounded so good!
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Heads-up Google Home Max is discontinued by Google. That means no firmware updates but existing services are promised by 'Google' to work.
Google doesn't keep up their promise in most cases.
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05-13-2021 at 08:07 PM.
05-13-2021 at 08:07 PM.
Quote from Enceladus :
This or Echo Studio (when it is on sale again)?
i have both and they are about equal.
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buy4free
05-13-2021 at 08:08 PM.
05-13-2021 at 08:08 PM.
Quote from MarFrickintinez :
Sound is fantastic on this. Built in assistant is a bonus, but great to have in the family room. Frozen II soundtrack never sounded so good!
You should have listen to 7.2 set-up !!!
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05-13-2021 at 08:08 PM.
05-13-2021 at 08:08 PM.
Quote from George_P_Burdell :
Heads-up Google Home Max is discontinued by Google. That means no firmware updates but existing services are promised by 'Google' to work.
Google doesn't keep up their promise in most cases.
if that were to happen, it has an aux audio in that could be used with another device. for a while i was using it with an echo input before i got the echo speaker.
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buy4free
05-13-2021 at 08:14 PM.
05-13-2021 at 08:14 PM.
Quote from George_P_Burdell :
Heads-up Google Home Max is discontinued by Google. That means no firmware updates but existing services are promised by 'Google' to work.
Google doesn't keep up their promise in most cases.
Question: How about firmware updates for original google home or google mini? Will Google provide firmware updates on these devices? I have still few home/mini in the box that I have not opened yet.
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05-13-2021 at 08:23 PM.
05-13-2021 at 08:23 PM.
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Is this merchant to be trusted? Website seems a bit amateurish.
They are legit.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.a4c.com
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meiotta
05-13-2021 at 08:38 PM.
05-13-2021 at 08:38 PM.
Can confirm
Sounds excellent, has significant wifi issues
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kellybrf
05-13-2021 at 09:12 PM.
05-13-2021 at 09:12 PM.
these are excellent. I've got one set up in a speaker group set up with 2 nest audios paired in stereo and this really fills out the low end. product may be discontinued, but it's a speaker so I'm not worried that it'll stop working. I've had zero connection issues. it is large though, so take that into consideration for placement.
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blakhol
05-13-2021 at 09:32 PM.
05-13-2021 at 09:32 PM.
Quote from wuss :
These are "mesh" speakers. They're essentially a direct competitor to Sonos as they generally have the exact same functionality. The one thing Sonos has on this (and its a big one) is the ability to string them together for home theater duties.

From what I heard, Google was working on this as well, although I havent' seen any updates. This speaker in a surround sound system would blow Sonos out of the water in terms of overall value (I have both, sonos sounds find, but at 2-3 times the cost).

Not exactly what you may be looking for but you can tie two of these together and make a stereo pair. I have done that with two old minis.
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blakhol
05-13-2021 at 09:35 PM.
05-13-2021 at 09:35 PM.
Maybe a stupid question - when you pair this to a PC/Mac does it let you use the mic as well? Or just speakers? I'm looking for something (a smart/dumb but good quality speaker) that can work as a good video conferencing (sans the video part) solution in parallel. Emphasis on a good mic, which can capture audio even if I'm walking around the room.
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NakedSky
05-13-2021 at 09:46 PM.
05-13-2021 at 09:46 PM.
Can I use these somehow with my tv for sound during a movie?
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ylin1900
05-13-2021 at 10:14 PM.
05-13-2021 at 10:14 PM.
Not really, google assistant has be complained for its extra annoying tips without inquiring. For example, set timer and he also give you weather broadcast because "By the way"
Quote from MarFrickintinez :
Sound is fantastic on this. Built in assistant is a bonus, but great to have in the family room. Frozen II soundtrack never sounded so good!
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05-13-2021 at 10:14 PM.
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Quote from NakedSky :
Can I use these somehow with my tv for sound during a movie?

Depends on what kind of outputs your TV has. If it has a line out/headphone jack, just connect with aux cable. Otherwise, if it has optical out, use an aux cable with an appropriate digital to analog converter.

I'm assuming you don't have a receiver and aren't using a shield or chromecast as your source.
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05-13-2021 at 11:15 PM.
05-13-2021 at 11:15 PM.
These 2 vs kilpsch 5.1 $299 ???
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05-13-2021 at 11:20 PM.
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These 2 vs kilpsch 5.1 $299 ???
Klipsch hands down lol. Get a google chromecast audio on ebay (and a nest mini if you absolutely need voice controls). The max is great compared to smart speakers but it's average compared to even computer speakers. This is coming from a guy who has two separate max stereo pairs in different rooms and getting embarrassed when my echo dot connected to my logitech 2.1 system blew it out of the water downstairs.
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abadan
05-13-2021 at 11:45 PM.
05-13-2021 at 11:45 PM.
Wait for $49.99 clearance!
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