{"id":116461,"date":"2020-12-15T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=116461"},"modified":"2020-12-15T14:32:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:32:01","slug":"google-home-max-is-a-thing-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/speakers\/google-home-max-is-a-thing-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Home Max is a thing of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/b>\u00a0has announced plans to curtail production of wireless audio systems\u00a0Home Max<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0Having sold out the warehouse leftovers, the manufacturer promises to keep the warranty and provide the necessary technical support for the model.\u00a0Also, new firmware for\u00a0Home Max<\/b>\u00a0will appear for some time\u00a0.<\/p>\n

As a result,\u00a0Google is<\/b>\u00a0completely reorienting itself to\u00a0Nest Audio<\/b>\u00a0wireless systems\u00a0, which are smaller, more modern, more efficient and, importantly, more affordable.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

Recall that\u00a0Google Home Max<\/b>\u00a0wireless speakers\u00a0were introduced three years ago at a price of $\u00a0400<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0This is a relatively large monoblock speaker with a pair of 4.5 “drivers serving the low \/ midrange and two soft dome tweeters with a diameter of 0.7”.\u00a0In addition to supporting a wireless\u00a0Bluetooth<\/b>\u00a0channel\u00a0,\u00a0Google Home Max<\/b>\u00a0is equipped with a dual-band\u00a0Wi-Fi<\/b>\u00a0adapter\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google\u00a0has announced plans to curtail production of wireless audio systems\u00a0Home Max\u00a0.\u00a0Having sold out the warehouse leftovers, the manufacturer promises to keep the warranty and provide the necessary technical support for the model.\u00a0Also, new firmware for\u00a0Home Max\u00a0will appear for some time\u00a0. As a result,\u00a0Google is\u00a0completely reorienting itself to\u00a0Nest Audio\u00a0wireless systems\u00a0, which are smaller, more modern, more […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":116462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-116461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-speakers","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}