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Google Home Max vs Sonos 5

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Google has announced their Home Max speaker. That thing looks like a direct copy of the PLAY:5. No one knows how it compares sound-wise. We'll see when it launches next year.

My worry is: Google will take a huge chunk of music-centric customers to the Google eco-system and monopolizing yet another home product area. For those looking to switch, please share your opinion. It's a BATTLE for sure!

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jvkii

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Can currently cast to Sonos from native apps from Pandora, Tidal, Spotify and Google. Can voice control from Spotify, Amazon Music, and the radio station aggregators. Soon, Google Assistant will be added, enabling far-field voice control for Google and Deezer. Then Airplay 2 support will be added, allowing casting from Apple Music or any other source on an iOS device, and possibly far-field voice control of Apple Music.

Amazon, Google and especially Apple want to lock you in to their ecosystems. Sonos wants to open up to all. Pretty simple choice.

** on android you can cast natively, after you add the service to sonos. If I could cast from iOS, I probably wouldn't have bought a home max.

All companies want to lock you into a system to make more money, the same could be said for sonos. What if I want to stream a podcast on an app that isn't supported by sonos or use another pair of speakers?

Chromecast is is my preference, sonos is yours, but I wouldn't say it's a "simple" choice.

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All companies want to lock you into a system to make more money, the same could be said for sonos.

Quite the opposite for Sonos. They want all the providers to work with their system. They make no money from streaming, only from hardware sales.

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paquettea

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Just bought the google home max. I listened to it for few hours and found the mid/low response lacking from the get go, and the sound was distorted soon before the max level. I decided to return it, not worth the 500$cad. My small boose mini II is about the same sound quality when not playing loud...
Then I decided to try the Play 5... man, it sounds awsome ! Home max is no were near that. It is more expensive (650 cad$) but im so happy to have a speaker that i won't get tired of.

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