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  • Cupertino official warned Apple of potential Apple Park glass impacts 9 months ago

    I hope some competitors make ads mocking this ASAP. They deserve all the mocking they get for this.

    muthuk_vanalingam
  • Video: Apple HomePod vs. Sonos One

    The Sonos One, on the other hand, only has one mid-range woofer and one tweeter, so the woofer has to take care of all of the low to mid-range frequencies at the same time, which can cause the sound to become muffled and blended together

    Please find someone who knows something about speakers to review them. Two way speakers is a very common design. Speakers costing many thousands of dollars use this design. See here for some that are $3500 each.
    larryapscooter63
  • Another test finds HomePod frequency response flat, but results potentially meaningless

    (Dipping my toe into this rushing river of conversation.)

    Can we agree that Apple has engineers who do amazing techno-things and marketing people who have to translate that engineering wizardry into ads & marketing blurbs that sell products? Given that, I would take anything on Apple's product pages with several grains of salt regarding their technical accuracy. If some Apple engineers publish some papers in the AES Journal or IEEE then we can start quibbling about Fletcher Munson Curves and beam forming and balanced mode radiators vs tweeters and all that other techno-babble.

    The HomePod has some serious technology on board. And that technology is doing some hard work to produce sound in your room. The wizards at Apple have tried to establish what "good" sound will mean to the buying public. For all we know, there are engineers within Apple who cringe at the way the HomePod sounds and know it could be far more linear, but the marketing people overruled them.

    But we do have a shiny new bauble from Apple and people are trying to understand the magic going on inside that little pill. Apple is certainly pushing boundaries that Google & Amazon haven't even bothered with in their speakers.

    Maybe some day we'll be able to buy a half-dozen HomePods, scatter them around the room, and have a full Dolby Atmos environment.

    In the mean time, the HomePod is not going to compete with Magnepan 30.7s or Wilson WAMMs on sound quality. But it might be as good or better than many $500-$700 bookshelf speakers - maybe. But I don't think it's intended for dedicated, critical listening - like in a home theater room. It's intended to provide ambient music in a bedroom, kitchen, or at a party with people moving around.

    I think we're still very early in understanding the HomePod. Traditional measurement methodologies might not be directly applicable to it (where do you measure cabinet resonance when there are speakers all the way around?).

    Carry on.
    lorin schultz
  • Exhaustive acoustical analysis demonstrates HomePod is '100 percent an audiophile-grade sp...

    rain22 said:
    So let’s recap...
    Sounds good for an Apple Music Only - Must Have Subscription - Smart Speaker. 
    If audio quality is your only concern, there are true audiophile speakers that blow HomePod out of the water - but for a much higher price.

    So the HomePod is a made in China, budget consumer-level speaker that sounds pretty good - and has a nifty voice command feature for 1 person only - who is willing to pay for an Apple Music Subscription and already owns Apple devices - who doesn’t value their privacy. 

    Im sure there is a market for that. 

    No. not "sounds good". Sounds shockingly great for such a small speaker, with frequency response characteristics worthy of speakers costing many times as much (down to 40Hz).
    The reviewer is claiming that the HomePod changes the value proposition for bookshelf sized speakers.
     "True" audiophiles are going to want floor-standing speakers with real stereo imaging and a subwoofer for the extra Hz at the bottom end.

    I'd like to see the HomePod compared to something like the Paradigm Shift A2; I believe the guy gushing over on Reddit has KEF X300As which are favorably regarded.
    SpamSandwichnetmage
  • Apple wants to make it easier to afford pricey products, in talks for new financing deal w...

    Another way for people to spend more than they earn and get chained to debt.  :'(
    lmaccgWerkswatto_cobra