A familiar design and similar sound for $299.
). And last, Apple says there’s an “all-new system sensor” that enhances the HomePod’s real-time audio adjustments. The original speaker automatically optimized its sound based on a room’s acoustic characteristics, and the idea behind the added sensor is to step up those background tuning capabilities.
Just like the first time around, Apple Music is still core to the HomePod experience. You can set a few other services like Pandora and Deezer as the default for Siri song requests, but Spotify unfortunately still isn’t playing ball. Other alternatives like Amazon Music and YouTube Music can’t fill the default role, either.
But there’s not much warmth to the HomePod’s audio. My editor Dan Seifert described it as clinical — like what lab tests might show to be the ideal sound signature — and he preferred the sound characteristics of Sonos speakers in comparison. I’d rank a single HomePod above the most popular smart speakers from Amazon and Google in overall performance. And I personally prefer its wider sound field to a Sonos One.
But there can be software bugs. Occasionally, my HomePod review units seemed to get confused about whether they should play a spatial audio track or just stick with lossless instead. More than a few times, the Now Playing screen didn’t show a badge for either Atmos or lossless. Frustratingly, you can’t toggle spatial audio on or off with voice commands, which seems like an option that should be in there. And Siri still has a tendency to give up on what should be easy music requests.
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