It has to be said that Amazon’s smart home effort has burst at the seams. So if it were up to us, we’d simply buy the speaker that’s on sale for the lowest price, which currently is Amazon’s 4th-generation Echo. Thankfully, neither brand is immune to slapping fairly hefty discounts on their respective products. The most significant misstep for both products involved connectivity and responsiveness when streaming music from my Spotify account Google’s Nest proved nearly bulletproof compared to the intermittent cutouts and lag I experienced with Amazon’s Echo-which proved to be hideously frustrating. While the Google Nest struggled to catch my commands while I had music playing, both smart speakers were equally helpful with simple questions about the weather, traffic, current events, etc. The Verdictīoth models were neck-and-neck during our testing, with their starting price, functionality, and question-answering capabilities being very close. Obviously, it’s not going to match the quality of a dedicated stereo system, but it provides a nice full sound-befitting a $100 device.Īs you can see in photographs, the Nest’s shape and form factor blend in with the environment much more seamlessly, making a great addition to your home theater, kitchen, or maybe even your bathroom-we’re not here to judge. While its spherical design could be problematic for some, it allowed engineers to squeeze two 20-millimeter tweeters and a 76.2-millimeter woofer inside. Throughout my two weeks with both smart speakers, I found the Amazon Echo’s sound quality far superior to Google’s Nest Home. That’s not to mention they’re all tuned to supply these frequencies in different amounts, to create a “balanced” sound that’s pleasing to the ear. Most speakers use a combination of woofers and tweeters to supply all of the available frequencies from the songs in your questionable That’s What I Call Music playlist. → Woofer: a speaker that supplies bass (low frequencies) in music → Tweeter: a speaker that supplies treble (mostly high frequencies) in music While I’m not a massive fan of using these smart devices to enrich my everyday experience-ie: having it fire up my espresso machine, tell me the weather, or enrich my investment portfolio-both speakers’ response times were nearly identical when I hit them with the wake word “Hey Google” or “Hey Alexa.” Sound Qualityīefore we start chatting about sound quality-which we all agree can be very subjective-we should get some basic audio terminologies out of the way. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
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