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The Improved configuration results in an enclosure with unmatched output and definition, alongside elimination of any colouration from turbulent or mechanical port noise. The Nexus Q is well-suited to high-impact nightclubs, concerts and festivals. Want to find out more about the Nexus Q in action? Void systems are recommended and installed by the best audio distributors in the world. Discover the future of sound today. Simonian and Evers speak at a quiet volume, just like their portfolio aesthetic.

Nothing about this couple is overstated or horsey. Evers wears geometric jewelry of her own design, but only her flair for red shoes suggests any degree of real flamboyance. Jones is more socially forward, and speaks in a Nottinghamshire accent that immediately projects design house credibility, whether he likes it or not.

Wave one was described by simple hardware think analog record player. Wave two added a software brain to the package think iPod. And now the third wave integrates the cloud. The "unfurling egg carton" box is the final shipping packaging. It can have any presence and gesture within the room, and this encourages you to interact with it. Curious physicality. Everyone on the Nexus Q project was looking for an industrial design that would provoke intense interest if you saw the hardware from 20 feet away.

An early version of the Q took the form of a lopsided box, a rhomboid. The rhomboid was also a tad too techy-looking. The earliest iteration of Nexus Q was called Tungsten, and was shaped like a rhomboid. This softer geometry better fit with the evolution of the Tungsten Project. It's pointing out to people all around, because it's about bringing people together. As for the omission of traditional interface controls, Evers says this was all but guaranteed.

For all its outward facing charms, Nexus Q is just as detail-oriented inside. The hardware also includes a micro-controller that fires up the LEDs the moment Nexus Q is powered on. Without this little addition, you would have to wait for a system boot to see the orb come alive. So we had to do a custom one to make it look right. The soul of the device is Android, so it was apt to relate back to the touch points of the Android platform.

Jones took the lead on brand I. The message is clear: Google is now a hardware company. Then in November , Google launched Google Music, its cloud-based sales and storage platform. Rubin had always planned to merge Android Home and Music, says Britt. But it was really the genesis of Google Music where we saw the opportunity to build something that would tie in. Sounds reasonable enough, but a stationary home audio device seems quite tangential for an Android platform so strongly associated with mobility.

Androinica, a site dedicated to Google's mobile system , described it as "another cool Google product that's destined to fail". Less than a month after those reviews were published Google announced its U-turn. But some tech writers believe it could still have a future. Google to sell tablet and glasses. YouView net TV service launches. Netflix streaming launches in UK. Google changed its order page to say the device was "coming soon" after publicising the revamp in an email.

The good news is that along with Play Store content, any tunes you have stored in Google Music are also available for playback. The bad news is that's it. Any sideloaded music files are out of bounds unless you upload them to Google Music first, and subscription services like Rdio and Spotify are locked out altogether. It's the same story on the video side: Hulu and Netflix customers, you're out of luck.

In terms of sound quality, the watt amp was more than loud enough to fill my apartment, and in conjunction with the speakers I was using provided a clean and detailed sound.

In this sense, the Q would be a fine choice for someone hosting a party, or looking for an audio system for the backyard. During music playback, the LED ring on the Q pulses and breathes various hues in sync with the rhythm and volume of the music. It's joined by a visualizer on the TV, with five different "themes" available via the Nexus Q app. The LED ring is undoubtedly fun; it brings a touch of whimsy to the Q, and only adds to its physical appeal.

The visualizer is another matter altogether. It's simply another riff on the same visual gimmickry we've been seeing in audio visualizers for years now — and it feels like it. Attempting to mute the Q during playback revealed another of its hardware weaknesses.

Namely, it doesn't work that well, repeatedly requiring several taps to mute or restore audio during playback. Google is touting the Q as the "world's first social streaming media player," primarily due to its collaborative playlisting: friends can come over and play their own music on your Q, or you can build a group playlist together. It's a feature with great appeal — there have been versions of the same idea on competing platforms for a while now — but the Q stumbles in the execution.

While tapping on the options for a given song allows you to add it to the current song queue, selecting that same song directly will immediately begin playback, bypassing what's already in the queue. Even worse, if you're viewing a list of tunes in playlist, album, or artist sort, selecting one song will add it plus all subsequent songs to the queue. Testing the feature out with a friend quickly pivoted from a fun musical collaboration into a frustrating game of accidental playlist-jacking.

To be fair, this implementation problem could be resolved with a software update — but this is the marquee feature of the Q. It's so important that the device's name is a cute play on "queue. Sticking to the Q's methodology, video playback is initiated via either YouTube or the Play Movies app.