Nest Audio review: Is Google's new smart speaker any good?

Your demo music is muted!!

Weird . I was watching this on my phone in the audio cut out right when she did the speaker test and started back up again when it ended.

Very disappointing audio. I’ve paired two in stereo and they do an awful job with the mix, at least with Apple Music songs. The vocals of Alice Cooper’s “Elected” were buried.

Apparently cnet didn't have permission to use music in the video so it was cut off in post. Horrible

There are a lot of great Bluetooth speakers inside dindinmodern that are perfect for house parties. The prices are also very cheap.

good review, but please change your mic...just a reccomendation

Google have always had better sound quality than Amazon equivalents IMO. I've not bought one of these yet but did try it in the shop and it sounded excellent. I have one home mini gen 2 and two home mini first gen, the gen 2 sound so much better than the originals.

Her recording equipment is not good. She need to buy better systems for her review

can the google nest audio work as a bluetooth speaker without wifi?

Hmm..."mono" music....how 1960s of google...yawn

Hi just wanna ask if i have assistant on my phone why should i use Google home? Thanks

I am in love with the host❤️

Acer just announced their version of Google smart speaker called Halo. Can't wait to see the comparisons between these two devices

one thing google hasn't said is that there are latency issues when pairing the audio nest to a tv via bluetooth. I've tried with mine and the lag of more than 1s makes it not viable at all. if you are looking to use them as tv speakers, DONT DO IT

I may be the minority but to me I feel the cable and charger should match the color of the unit. The 4 lights could have been google colored instead of boring all white. It could have also benefited from having an Aux port and a charging USB C port at the front. I would have liked to see a built in simple digital clock (like amazon has on one of their smart speakers) that could also show the date, and countdown timer, and stopwatch functionality. I know one could verbally ask the assistant for the time or to set a timer, it just would be better imo to be able to see that information as well and be able to stop or pause timers with a simple tap on the top. Plus a water resistance rating for bathroom and possibly outdoors use. I will wait for price drops, 75$ seems like a fairer price

Look, this is CNET, and your audio mic is recording from inside of a tube... Im skipping in to the next.

I’m gonna get old one xD because they had a lot of discount now!

I don’t understand ➡️ why she said that the Nest Audio is a midrange speaker?

Sorry, but really amature review, or whatever this supposed to be

CNET have gotten so crap recently. I stopped watching when she said sound quality was absolutely better...

In the Netherlands, they sell 2 nest audio + 1 free. So 3 for 199 euros, or 78 dollars each. Is this deal also in the US?

It’s hard to trust your comments on audio quality when your own audio quality is all over the place. It doesn’t show that you care about audio quality.

Got a pair of the Nest Audios. We love them. They sound crisp and clean with good stereo separation.

There's hardly any difference in loudness of the old and new, your mic system isn't doing it justice most likely!

For 100 or so ,, I thought it was about 2 feet tall and a foot wide

i think she's confusing gain and volume...

Hilariuosly pointless, the volume comparison omitted the ONLY test that would have made any sense - max volume. This showed technical understanding on the level of 11 is louder than 10.

Does this speaker have air play 2?

I would rather spend the extra $100 and get a sonos speaker. Music sounds WAY better app is better and you can have the choice of eitger Google or Alexa for the assistant

I can't believe they left the bloopers in at the end of the video 😂

Noone is going to take a review of an audio product seriously when the review itself is recorded with poor audio. How are we supposed to take her word for it whilst simultaneously she is demonstrating her poor understanding of audio to us?

Yo, I thought that was the speaker talking until I seen the lady at first....lol. nice video CNET. I was low-key about to start telling google to talk like her.

Echoooo! Video about audio quality, made using crappy microphone.....

Interested in getting one when I grab a new phone, just not sure what phone I really want

The audio from the hub sounds exactly like the audio from my home speaker!

Like the improved sound quality but prefer the original slick design

Year 2000 : gov is tapping and listening to us
Year 2020 : lets pay $100 for that

Beutiful

Did you even listen to the audio in this video before you posted it !? 😂

For married people, don't put it in your bedroom. 😁

You do realize that I'm listening to this on my speakers., right.

it sounds like it has less real bass and that the bass has been artificially enhanced so sounds more tinny

To be this product is just... Confusing. Where does it fit in? Is this better or worse than the Home Max?

Bluetooth needs to maintain the connection or it’s another miss on this.

This looks like an Apple HomePod...lesser quality ..

The Google executives who decided to bring this product into the world, should be fired.
Who needs a new speaker with a better sound, but no screen and costs the same as Google Nest Hub?
Just improve the quality sound of the Google Nest Hub...
I would understand the idea if it was ment to replace the Mini Nest and cost 40$.

Shailene Woodley