The Home Max, and Mini, launched in 2017 as the first expansion of Google’s smart speaker lineup. After three years, Google has officially discontinued the Home Max as inventory is depleted.

The Google Home Max is the best-sounding smart speaker on the market, but there are plenty of “dumb” powered speakers that sound better. Getting a review unit late, as is the case with the ...

Google's Home Max is the company's first attempt to join the HiFi audio space -- it does everything that the smaller Home speakers do, but with significantly larger and higher-caliber components.

If you want a smart speaker with good sound quality, your options are limited. But the Google Home Max is impressive, even if the microphones have trouble picking up your voice when playing music ...

The Google Home Max is not just a regular speaker. It packs some great safety features that you don’t generally find in the ...

One of the best smart speakers out there is the Google Home Max—and it's now available for a $100 off its regular price. There are many qualities that make the Google Home Max such a great speaker.

The Google Home Max is not the first smart speaker to aim for better audio quality, but it sounds better than any of the ones I've heard. And at twice the price of my favorite, the Sonos One , I'd ...

The weird thing about picking up the Google Home Max is the weight. It’s only 11 pounds, but it feels heavy, the way speakers used to feel. So I feel like I smirked when I plugged it in ...

That’s where the Google Home Max comes in–and it’s currently available for $100 off its normal price. The Google Home Max isn’t just for listening to Google Assistant’s voice in high ...

Before that, I was PCMag's lead audio analyst from 2006 to 2011. Even though I'm a freelancer now, PCMag has been my home for well over a decade, and audio gear reviews are still my primary focus.