Apple presents two good audio system obtainable: The second era HomePod — a robust, Siri-enabled good speaker —that’s 6.6-inch tall with a high-excursion woofer,5 horn-loaded tweeters, and assist for Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos. There’s additionally the strong-selling HomePod mini.
Each Thread-enabled choices supply a mesh cloth and backlit contact floor, assist for stereo pair performance and multiroom audio, and a temperature and humidity sensor.
So, which one is for you?
Apple’s follow-up to its 2020 HomePod is an distinctive speaker that’s not solely loud (even for bigger rooms) however well-balanced because of clear lows, mids, and highs.
Together with its Apple-designed high-excursion woofer for deep bass, there are 5 tweeters, angled barely upward for optimized supply, together with “beamforming” calibration tech that bounces audio across the room to sense surfaces (like partitions) to ship a extra balanced expertise.
That, and there may be assist for Apple Music tracks with lossless streaming and 360-degree Spatial Audio (with Dolby Atmos assist), which additionally sound nice when paired with an Apple TV 4K field for tv exhibits and films (particularly in a stereo pair).
The HomePod Mini additionally delivers wealthy acoustics—surprisingly, actually, because it’s out of a a lot smaller enclosure—however the full-range driver and twin passive radiators (a speaker diaphragm with no magnet) yield stable bass efficiency and crisp excessive frequencies.
Regardless of its small dimension, the HomePod Mini additionally impresses with first rate quantity ranges for small- to medium-sized rooms… However pound for pound, within the efficiency division, HomePod (2nd gen) wins.
MacDailyNews Take: Saltzman additionally appears at value, good dwelling capabilities, options, and design and, in the long run, picks – unsurprisingly – Apple’s flagship HomePod (2nd. gen) over the HomePod mini.
Please assist assist MacDailyNews. Click on or faucet right here to assist our unbiased tech weblog. Thanks!
Help MacDailyNews by purchasing The Apple Retailer at Amazon.
