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Got it. Ya that dumb white screen is definitely not a good way to deal with the error.
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Some reddit people put the homepod through the paces. Pretty interesting review: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/7wwtqy/apple_homepod_the_audiophile_perspective/
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Agronox posted:Some reddit people put the homepod through the paces. Pretty interesting review: Wish i could put you through your paces
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Don Lapre posted:Wish i could put you through your paces I would pass with flying colors, much like Apple's wonderful new device
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Agronox posted:Some reddit people put the homepod through the paces. Pretty interesting review: Not too surprising to me for some reason. I ordered one initially and have ordered two more for a whole home setup. While it can’t match my Naim Muso for full range it’s 95% there so IDGAF. Anyone who buys it as an Alexa/GoogHome competitor will be sad. If you treat it like a nice speaker though you’ll be pleased. That said - the voice recognition is better than Alexa for my wife. She has a notoriously hard voice for voice recognition - I think because she speaks kind of sing-song.
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https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/HomePod++Teardown/103133 The iFixit folks took a crack at opening up the HomePod..  Hey wait put the knife down, fellas..  Nice braided / woven power cable there.. be a shame if someone CUT IT for some dopey reason.. (They didn't but geez..) Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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Dick Nipples posted:Not too surprising to me for some reason. I ordered one initially and have ordered two more for a whole home setup. Alexa can't understand worth poo poo compared to HomePod. We put her in the bedroom and its like night and day.
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Dick Nipples posted:Got it. Ya that dumb white screen is definitely not a good way to deal with the error. All of that happened except the last part.
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Binary Badger posted:https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/HomePod++Teardown/103133 My favorite thing about the teardown is when the firmware came out Apple geeks were obsessing about the 272 x 340 display that it secretly had and speculating about all the cool one more thing uses it could have. Nope, just 16 LEDs to make the Siri blob.
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Finally got my HomePod set up and drat it does sound really good. It’s a lot heavier then I thought it would be though Jesus. Also I kinda wish the phone displayed what song was playing but that’s a minor gripe I guess. So far I’m really happy with it.
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MarcusSA posted:Finally got my HomePod set up and drat it does sound really good. Happy Noodle Boy posted:Not exactly a perfect solution but you can go to control center on the iPhone and force touch music controls to see other devices, one of which should be the HomePod.
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You can also tap the arcs in the upper right corner of the music control instead of force touching it, if you prefer.
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Endless Mike posted:Since I had the same gripe, and got a helpful answer: Oh hmm I’ll have to check that out when I get back home. So far though just with the first hour I’m very happy with my purchase
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Is there a painless way of transferring music that’s playing on one HomePod to another one when you switch rooms?
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G5ANDY posted:Is there a painless way of transferring music that’s playing on one HomePod to another one when you switch rooms? That’s what multi-room support should do whenever it’s released. Someday. This year, hopefully.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:That’s what multi-room support should do whenever it’s released. Someday. This year, hopefully.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Should as in “in a fair and good world”, yeah. Should as in “reasonable to expect”, I would doubt it. Multi room will just be being able to start/stop playback on multiple HomePods, I'd bet. I mean, you can play the same song in multiple rooms or different songs in different rooms. At worst, you would be able to start the one you're moving to, then stop the one you left.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Should as in “in a fair and good world”, yeah. Should as in “reasonable to expect”, I would doubt it. Multi room will just be being able to start/stop playback on multiple HomePods, I'd bet. Looking at this hands on from the beta, it should be able to switch locations seamlessly or start at one then you can switch to another. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5aK45slcYY Now the question is wether you’ll be able to use Siri to choose rooms.
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Three Olives posted:My favorite thing about the teardown is when the firmware came out Apple geeks were obsessing about the 272 x 340 display that it secretly had and speculating about all the cool one more thing uses it could have. Nope, just 16 LEDs to make the Siri blob. 
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I’m assuming Andy is thinking of something like “Siri switch music to the kitchen”. I don’t think that’ll happen, but I’m just guessing.
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Maybe I’m confusing the issue as well but are they gonna let us have all the HomePods in the house play the same thing? It would be nice to have one upstairs and downstairs. Unless it already does that and I am missing something.
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MarcusSA posted:Maybe I’m confusing the issue as well but are they gonna let us have all the HomePods in the house play the same thing? Yes, AirPlay 2 will enable this.
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MarcusSA posted:Maybe I’m confusing the issue as well but are they gonna let us have all the HomePods in the house play the same thing? I think it doesn't do that yet. I think right now you can have (HomePod) and (HomePod 1) ect. then select them individually.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:I’m assuming Andy is thinking of something like “Siri switch music to the kitchen”. I don’t think that’ll happen, but I’m just guessing. This is exactly what I meant. The issue is that the other home pod has no way of knowing what I was playing so I just wind up issuing the original command, play album x by artist y. Edit: to expand on this. Looking in the home app the home pod that's not being used 'pauses' and is really flaky unless I tell it to play.
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Anyone try handing off a call to make this the the most expensive speakerphone ever? As easy as switching to headphones on the phone.. If you have another call incoming all you have to do is tap the top of the Pod to switch to that.. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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Binary Badger posted:Anyone try handing off a call to make this the the most expensive speakerphone ever?  v
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Binary Badger posted:Anyone try handing off a call to make this the the most expensive speakerphone ever? Haha I literally just did this. The sound quality is great and the person on the other end could hear me very well no matter where I was in the room.
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Sorry the Apple HomePod is incompatible with your table.Wirecutter posted:An unhappy discovery after we placed a HomePod on an oiled butcher-block countertop and later on a wooden side table was that it left a defined white ring in the surface. Other reviewers and owners (such as Pocket-lint, and folks on Twitter) have reported the same issue, which an Apple representative has confirmed. Apple says “the marks can improve over several days after the speaker is removed from the wood surface,” and if they don’t fade on their own, you can basically just go refinish the furniture—the exact advice Apple gave in an email to Wirecutter was to “try cleaning the surface with the manufacturer’s suggested oiling method.”
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Oh man it’s free bumpers* for everyone again. *coasters
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What was the old audiophile-mock thread that had those snake-oil mats to put your thousand dollar speakers on to reduce vibration or some-such. Get one of those for your HomePod.
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Thwomp posted:What was the old audiophile-mock thread that had those snake-oil mats to put your thousand dollar speakers on to reduce vibration or some-such. Isolation pads cost like 40 bucks, not exactly $5000 ethernet cable territory.
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I have adorned my HomePod with rare crystals allowing even better sound quality
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The HomePod sound quality is good but I am continually amused by the people who really think you need $1,000 speakers to beat the sound quality due to that shill reddit article. That is some fantasy land poo poo right there.
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Agronox posted:Some reddit people put the homepod through the paces. Pretty interesting review: That is nothing surprising, unless you are audiophool true believer who thinks Apple can't make good audio products when they are child's play engineering compared to their custom ARM SoCs.
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It's a good audio product. It's nowhere near as good as a decent pair of floorstanders, due to things like physics that can't be overcome with engineering. That's why the review is garbage (besides the other flaws with his methodology, that to his credit, he directly admits to in his article). Also did you just use the word "audiophool"?
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I still like mine a lot. It’s nice to have in the kitchen / living room. Siri can actually understand me when I slur my words which is pretty nice too.
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Homepod sounds super impressive for its size... it makes me want Apple to build an enormous one
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I just want my Ps4 to be compatible with it.
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