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seanj said:

Interesting that it incorporates a ribbon tweeter, I’ve only ever seen these previously on monitors made by Adam Audio - often used as studio monitors. They give a great sound.

Seriously though, only Bluetooth and no Airplay?!?!

BTW - anybody recognise the iPhone app being used to analyse the sound at different frequencies?

I find quality ribbons generally superior, with ribbon horns being even better and my favourite to rival live performances...

mknelson said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

mike_galloway said:

There appears to be a bluetooth antenna connector - was an antenna connected? - if so, maybe it was faulty.

Sure would have been good if there was an antenna included. Regardless, we review what's in the box as we get it, and there wasn't one.

I had a look at the Indiegogo page and there is a pic of the back about 80% of the way down the page. It shows a short black antenna coming out of the Antenna port - not as tall as the one Mike shows, but not nothing either.

"Sounds will hit your ears up 5x faster than conventional dome speakers" Right, because sound doesn't have a fixed speed in a given medium… 

 

The suggestion may relate to transient response, relating to the entirety of the percussion, which may in fact have some merit... I have only ever heard cymbals on one pair of domes that seemed to both sound like cymbals and rivalled the best ribbon horns I have heard...

After struggling with connectivity on a pair of Parrot Zikmu speakers which ended up being unrepairable, discontinued and sold for parts I swore I would never invest in expensive audio without analogue input as at least an option. This is one reason I was never even tempted to try the HomePod. Why do manufacturers design this way ?

verne arase said:

netrox said:

That's pretty impressive! 

It would be nice if Parallels develop a virtual x86 environment although I imagine it's pretty challenging. 

ARM Windows 11 already has a built in x86 emulation environment.

... and I understand x86 'pro' may offer legacy windows support for 32 bit apps, XP, etc...

... is legacy macOS support in Parallels on ARM possible with Rosetta 2 ...?

One might have hoped virtualization (esp coherence) could offer an alternative to keeping an Intel mac around for legacy application, returning client data / digital asset and project access...

www.parallels.com/ca/products/desktop/resources/

Do we risk digital (and cultural) amnesia by design...?

ericthehalfbee said:

I love my original HomePods. I want Apple to enter the home theatre space and allow me to have surround sound with some arrangement of HomePods.

I hope whatever processor they use in the new HomePod has enough performance to allow real time audio tuning/processing. That’s one thing that sets the original HomePod apart from other generic speakers.

Dolby Atmos with beamforming would be great.

I ask if a (somewhat) less proprietary home theatre decoding within the Apple TV+ hardware license or app (offer ATMOS?) for distribution via airport express would be compelling with output to a revival of Airport Express hardware as a potential new paradigm of home theatre...?

One could then skip the wires and choose both speakers and amps linked via airport express wifi vs the proprietary and sonically questionable limitations and sunsetting of the competing corporate offerings to date...?