Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
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#2What surprises me most are the rave reviews in the absence of stereo (coming later), which I always thought was de rigueur for audiophiles. I look forward to those future reviews.
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#3Great marketing to let an obvious fan (check his history) who loves writing get an early look at your product.
Re: Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
#4What surprises me most are the rave reviews in the absence of stereo (coming later), which I always thought was de rigueur for audiophiles. I look forward to those future reviews.
I love music but I don't consider myself an audiophile. After having written off the HomePod yet trying one for a weekend - I cannot wait for the stereo upgrade. It is astonishingly good as a speaker.
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#5Great marketing to let an obvious fan (check his history) who loves writing get an early look at your product.
Where does it say they got it early? It's plausible this was done over the weekend.
Re: Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
#6What surprises me most are the rave reviews in the absence of stereo (coming later), which I always thought was de rigueur for audiophiles. I look forward to those future reviews.
That's part of the point: it has a 7-tweeter 360º array that is used to add directionality to the sound. Obviously won't compare to a true stereo pair, but it's not nothing either.
Personally speaking, I'd take great mono over sub-par stereo any day anyway.
Re: Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
#7Great marketing to let an obvious fan (check his history) who loves writing get an early look at your product.
The reviewer seemed to be very frank about listing their biases in fairness (see the big section titled 'Bias' in the review). And they shared their original data, so it's up to you what you want to make of it.
Re: Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
#8Great marketing to let an obvious fan (check his history) who loves writing get an early look at your product.
Where does it say they got it early? It's plausible this was done over the weekend.
Re: Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
#9What surprises me most are the rave reviews in the absence of stereo (coming later), which I always thought was de rigueur for audiophiles. I look forward to those future reviews.
i dunno if this continues today, but before digital became prevalent there was something of a holy war in the audiophile community between mono and stereo. i know a lot of people still prefer the mono mix of sgt pepper, but that might be because the stereo mix of that particular album is actually inferior.
today practically all new systems marketed to audiophiles are stereo, but my guess is that most would consider faithful reproduction of the signal to be more important than the number of channels if they had to pick.
Re: Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
#10What surprises me most are the rave reviews in the absence of stereo (coming later), which I always thought was de rigueur for audiophiles. I look forward to those future reviews.
There are 7 tweeters in each Pod. Not only does a single Pod do stereo, it will analyse the surroundings to make use of walls etc to make wider stereo than it could just do by naively choosing a side speaker.