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Apple HomePod versus Sonos & Ikea Symfonisk smart speakers
mistergsf said:
Exactly this.jcs2305 said:
HomePod is a great speaker but do you seriously want to play your vinyl on a speaker this size, and not a larger component system ?AnotherBrick said:There is one sentence that will prevent me from buying a HomePod: “Apple's HomePod is a fantastic home speaker. It connects solely over Wi-Fi and streams Apple Music natively, but nothing else.”
A device which claims to be an audiophile grade speaker that only plays mp3 quality music and cannot accept other sources unless that source has AirPlay, which probably eliminates turntables for people who are vinyl purists, absolutely killed my interest in the device. I wanted something that could play the highest quality bit rate for digital and could play my high end vinyl collection as well.
Then it's not the product for you like so many other devices that have nothing to do with Vinyl. Nor is Apple interested in that market. Why would they be?
Some Sonos devices (not these) can connect to a turntable but again why would you. Vinyl lovers are typically either young people who thinks it cool but use cheap equipment or audiophiles who use component systems but are a tiny minority of buyers in the age of streaming..
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Apple HomePod versus Sonos & Ikea Symfonisk smart speakers
The HomePod plays up to CD quality music. "MP3 quality" means nothing...what bit rate etc are you referring to for example. Also Apple uses the AAC codec which is such more advanced than AAC. Every streaming service can use Airplay and many other devices as wellAnotherBrick said:There is one sentence that will prevent me from buying a HomePod: “Apple's HomePod is a fantastic home speaker. It connects solely over Wi-Fi and streams Apple Music natively, but nothing else.”
A device which claims to be an audiophile grade speaker that only plays mp3 quality music and cannot accept other sources unless that source has AirPlay, which probably eliminates turntables for people who are vinyl purists, absolutely killed my interest in the device. I wanted something that could play the highest quality bit rate for digital and could play my high end vinyl collection as well. -
Review: JBL's Link 20 Bluetooth speaker with Google Assistant nails it
This is nowhere near HomePod sound quality and neither is a Sonos One. That’s just an ignorant thing to say.
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Siri can interact with streaming media apps like Spotify in iOS 12
"Currently, Siri can open streaming apps, but is unable to play songs from third-party sources."
Apple Insider at least should be able to get this right.
You can play songs from third party sources just not initiative them. Once they are airplaying you can control volume etc by voice. -
Amazon Prime Video on Apple TV limited to 2.1 stereo sound, despite streaming 4K HDR video...
Apple has done nothing wrong here. They would have put this app on Apple TV a long time ago.seanismorris said:I suspect this is intentional. Amazon wants people to buy Fire devices for Christmas. Afterwards the “bug” will suddenly be fixed.
I recommend voting with your feet and buying a Roku instead.
The infighting between Apple, Amazon and Google is disgusting and anti-consumer.
Apple’s “walled garden” sometimes gets out of had, but Amazon and Google are worse (lately).
