Sound smarts

Smart Google Voice Assistant speaker it may be, but Panasonic’s GA10 very sensibly makes sound quality a priority.

At the Sydney launch of Panasonic’s smart speaker, Aaron Waters, Panasonic Australia’s product manager for audio and video, pointed to research showing, pleasingly, that smart speakers are being used primarily to play music. A later study bore him out — eMarketer reported in May that the dominating use is for listening to music, podcasts and radio. Yet some of these smart speakers are humdrum in terms of audio quality, as we found in our first round-up of voice-activated speakers two issues back. One solution is to use a basic smart speaker to send music to a Chromecast-equipped hi-fi system. The other is to get a better smart speaker. Panasonic has both options available. At its recent Sydney product launch it demonstrated three slimline audio systems with CD, radio (including DAB+) and the…

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