Apple HomePod Initial Review - Surprisingly GOOD! #Helpful Post

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57 tonight lights on okay Jonathan here

and this is home pod so I've got a

chance for the last couple days with

this a lot of thoughts a lot of

impressions the first which being it is

way smaller than you might think out of

the box there's a whole lot going on and

get the home pot itself a QuickStart

guide and a singular Apple sticker I

will say though sometimes it's the

attention detail the small things that

really make a difference the fabric on

the power cord matches the home pod and

that's kind of cool

now set up on the home pod is one of the

nicer parts of the experience if you've

ever use air paws it's kind of similar

to that where you stick your phone out a

little home pod icon pops up you connect

your never dive into any menus you let

it do its thing and shortly thereafter

you are good to go

 

also first impressions these Siri

animation towards the top of the home

pile which you will see throughout this

video is really well done I think rounds

out the entire experience

now when that Siri animation isn't

engaged you can use the top of home pod

for touch controls single tap to play a

song or single tap to pause a song

double tap to go next song a triple tap

to go previous song

press and hold will activate Siri and

then you do of course have your volume

up and volume down so from there I'm

gonna jump into sound quality I know

some people aren't gonna want to hear

this but the home pod sounds really

freaking good

 

now I'm not gonna say it's as

life-changing breathtaking magical

experience but when you see the size of

home pod and then you hear the sound

that comes out of it 3 what stands out

is not only the amount of low-end but

the quality of loan that comes at a home

pod when you hear how much bass comes

out of a speaker the size that by itself

is really surprising but what's more

impressive is no matter how I turn this

up and believe me it gets really loud it

still doesn't break up or distort now

design-wise home pod as a speaker is

kind of unique for starters the woofer

which is responsible for that low-end

you would think would be placed towards

the bottom but with the home pod it is

actually placed towards the top then

from there the tweeters which normally

would think we placed towards the top

those are on the bottom you have a total

of six microphones surrounding home pod

and lastly Apple's AHF which is doing

the processing it's listening to the

environment adapts in a real-time and

while things may seem a little

unorthodox whatever they're doing seems

to be working now home pod was geared to

work first and foremost without music

and it does really well to give you an

idea of how loud this thing is play

Porter Robinson

 

turn the volume to 75%

 

turn the volume to 100%

 

turn the volume to 10% stills kind of a

good example of how well the microphones

work within a home pod one the music was

really loud in two I'm actually talking

away from home pod face in this way and

it still picked my voice really well now

initially I was under the impression

that for you Spotify you were kind of

out of luck with home pod that it was

really only geared for Apple music but

not only can you airplay from Spotify

which I'll do now you can actually use

the voice controls to change everything

so hey next track so you can see why you

definitely want to use alpha music to

get the most at a home pot if you do use

Spotify there's a lot you can do with it

next one of the biggest reasons you

might be interested in home pod is home

kits so far testing out home pod with

home kit has worked extremely well

behind me I have a couple Phillips hue

lights and then an envelope light bulb

right there and what I love about it is

the ability to control things

individually or all together now beyond

that was kind of cool as the ability to

group things together and create scenes

so imagine you walk into your kitchen

you say hey Siri good morning that turns

on your lights opens your blinds starts

your coffee that is all possible so to

give an example of what a scene looks

like I paired these two Phillips lights

with this non smart lamp here that's

going through a smart outlet and I've

created the scene called put out the

fire put out the fire conversely if I

want those lights back on turn on the

lights

turn on that cool lamp from there you

can note how quick the changes are it

turn the lights blue now one downside

with home pot is if you're looking to

buy a pair of these to combine them into

stereo mode that will not work at large

that will come later this year with

airplay to it is a free update but it's

still a little disappointing that didn't

happen at launch because that was

honestly one of the most enticing

features of home pot now it's also worth

mentioning that if you don't have

airplay to you don't have multi room

control so if you wanted to have

different home pods in different rooms

throughout your house you gotta wait

until airplay to comes out for them to

talk to each other when it does come out

and the home pods can talk to each other

you can play the same song throughout

your house or have independent control

and place on them in your kitchen that

is completely different from your living

room but again if that's something you

were looking forward to that is not

available here at launch also I did see

some initial fear that Siri was going to

be extremely limited with home pod

launch but from what I can tell you can

send text you can make calls create

reminders create notes so as far as that

goes

the really big drawback again is the

lack of airplay too which enables stereo

mode aside from that those are my

initial impressions on home pot it's got

a surprisingly great sound it's loud

there is a ton of low-end it works great

with home kit there are definitely some

really really important features that

are missing upon launch but overall pick

one up I think you will dig this now if

you want to see this compared against

Google home max let me know by smashing

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this is Jonathan and I will catch you

guys later