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say hello to max our biggest and best sound at Google home ever the first thing you'll notice is how we obsessed over the bass its 24.5 which will first have 22 millimeters of excursion an extremely high range for their size that means these woofers can move a lot of air oh and max to really hit those low frequencies and max can play loud really loud it's one of 20 times more powerful than Google home so they'll fill any room in your house with amazing audio now great hardware alone isn't sufficient for great sound the challenge of speakers today is that they're tuned for ideal acoustic conditions but they fall short in the real world that's why it always sounds different in the store than in your home to sound great the speaker needs to adjust to you and your home so today we're announcing smart sound a new audio experience powered by Google's AI it allows max to adapt to you your environment your context your preferences so for example if you set up a speaker near wall on a shelf in a corner fairly common places it can dramatically change the sound balance of the speaker and make the music sound muddy and the vocals lose clarity well with smart sound we automatically tune the speaker to correct for this effect using a machine learning model a trained with thousands of different room configurations what's really cool this is all done dynamically so if you decide to move max a few feet it'll compensate within seconds max also supports cast Bluetooth and stereo aux input so you can play anything from your phone or plug in that record player to breathe new life into that vinyl collection and of course max has a Google assistant built right in we made your assistant can hear you even when the music is blasting using your unique microphone placement and Google's neural beamforming technology Google home max will be available starting December for $399 and will come in two colors chalk and charcoal Edition launched in the US with more countries coming early next year