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Google Home Max Smart Speaker w/ Google Assistant (Chalk) Expired

$150
$399.99
+ Free Shipping
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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.
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!
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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PurpleDime815
05-13-2021 at 05:22 PM.
05-13-2021 at 05:22 PM.
Got this for $160 in December, the speaker quality is pretty good. Considerably better than those tiny Google home/nest mini's. Though I kinda wish it has a built-in battery so I could move it around.
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milne
05-13-2021 at 05:31 PM.
05-13-2021 at 05:31 PM.
Only chalk. No charcoal.
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mording
05-13-2021 at 05:40 PM.
05-13-2021 at 05:40 PM.
I'm tempted to buy….hmmmm. As others said, a battery would make this a killer device. Having to be plugged in is tricky
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HE1
05-13-2021 at 05:54 PM.
05-13-2021 at 05:54 PM.
Quote from PurpleDime815 :
Got this for $160 in December, the speaker quality is pretty good. Considerably better than those tiny Google home/nest mini's. Though I kinda wish it has a built-in battery so I could move it around.
How does it compare to the main Google home? That sold for $30 a few years back ($129 retail)

Yeah lol we all got several!
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MarFrickintinez
05-13-2021 at 05:54 PM.
05-13-2021 at 05:54 PM.
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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John1977
05-13-2021 at 06:06 PM.
05-13-2021 at 06:06 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!

Let it gooood, let it gooooooo
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ready4ward
05-13-2021 at 06:22 PM.
05-13-2021 at 06:22 PM.
How is sound compared to Ikea Symfonisk Sonos? I was waiting around for this deal but since it was so long since it last went down I ended up getting a pair of Symfonisk and they sound great.
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PurplePenguin830
05-13-2021 at 06:22 PM.
05-13-2021 at 06:22 PM.
Better than mesh speakers? How much better?
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anpj13
05-13-2021 at 06:35 PM.
05-13-2021 at 06:35 PM.
For some reason I am getting a SSL certificate error trying to connect to A4C.com ! I have two of these speakers connected in Stereo mode and it sounds amazing..
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SoundsLikeBen
05-13-2021 at 06:45 PM.
05-13-2021 at 06:45 PM.
Thank you. I was able to purchase one. $162.34 total with tax and free shipping.
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erik1220
05-13-2021 at 06:46 PM.
05-13-2021 at 06:46 PM.
Good deal. Bought two to run in stereo. Been waiting for these to go up for sale at $150 or so.
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square_one
05-13-2021 at 06:52 PM.
05-13-2021 at 06:52 PM.
Quote from HE1 :
How does it compare to the main Google home? That sold for $30 a few years back ($129 retail)

Yeah lol we all got several!

I have both. This is way better.
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05-13-2021 at 06:56 PM.
05-13-2021 at 06:56 PM.
Quote from PurplePenguin830 :
Better than mesh speakers? How much better?
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).
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