>automatic room analysis using the beam forming six microphone array >automatic and dynamic equalization based on the data gathered from the arrival times and spectra of the mic array >seven beam forming tweeters for directional or omnidirectional response >4" woofer with 20mm peak to peak excursion(!!) >individual amplification for each transducer(a necessity for the DSP)
basically a full range point source, auto-calibrating loudspeaker for wireless play. lads this is fucking amazing. hopefully this will boost the utterly stagnant consumer audio industry and cause an influx of competitive products and technologies on the market.
I can't think of use for a voice assistant. I mean, everything I can say with my voice, I can type on my keyboard, and only I know what I type, where's everybody around me hears what I say and I don't feel comfortable with that. Also all that room analysis and listening all the time sounds like spying device. AI assistants are cool if they know only what you want them to know, and I don't want Amazon, Google or Apple to listen all the time what I do in my room.
Cameron Butler
Listening to "Hey Siri" is local. Anything after is encrypted and handled online. Also, if you don't wan't to use it as a Voice Assistant you can still use it as a cheap-ish wireless music installation, with decent quality.
Ryan Bennett
For this price you could get a bunch of BT speakers. Why would I believe them that they listen 'locally', will they release the source of its firmware? And how do you know if there is no backdoor for NSA/CIA so they could listen whenever they want?
Ryan Clark
A decent big Bluetooth speaker, with enough volume, that doesn't make the music sound like crap when it's turned up, isn't cheap. When these things will be out, and there'll be another shooting in the US somewhere, by someone who owned a HomePod, the FBI will come knocking on Apple's door again asking for logs, but Apple won't be able to provide any.
Cooper Collins
For $350 you could buy entry level active monitors and a bt 4.0 adapter with apt-x. If you think that this trashcan is going to replace any decent audio setup, then you must be deaf.
Jonathan Jenkins
And how do you do room response correction?
Looking at the price tag is pointless. Comparisons to systems build from dedicated budget parts is stupid as they do not add up to the same product. Value is entirely subjective and this isn't a price to performance competition on your individual criteria(sound quality quantified somehow?) in the first place.
This is isn't aimed at audiophiles. It's not going to be the end all of fidelity. Technology implemented is very impressive but everyone here gets an autism aneurysm because Apple did it and "botnet". Fuck technology.
Colton Wilson
Not that guy, but this will just be some expensive over-engineered speaking trashcan.
Cameron Garcia
Except the technology implemented is very impressive and woofer motor is unheard-of. It's an example of modern loudspeaker design which minimizes room response: the largest source of coloration. It's the only product beyond BeoLab 90 which does it automatically in a single product. As far as I know it's the second product ever to utilize beam steering to control the HF response.
Sebastian Murphy
What are you gonna say to Siri that you won't type here? Because google saves every post you make with your captcha
Jacob Cook
Because you'll probably pick out a bunch of shitty bt speakers that don't work together well.
Do you have on your phone... Voice assistants Location services Gps Predictive text Email Any services requiring sign-in
Your life is already being tracked and documented.
Brayden Smith
Home pod and BeoLab 90 are like toy car vs Ferrari, BeoLab 90 is magnitud order better.
Justin Hall
We've passed the post-keynote flummox and denial stages. Sup Forums is now transitioning into rage.
Easton Stewart
More like overpriced underengineered trashcan, masquerading as an over engineered, overpriced trashcan.
Leo Lewis
Apple please stop sending us paid shills, we already have too many shills here.
Andrew Hughes
oh great now macfags will become even more insufferable then audifags
Gavin Morris
What happened to you /g?
Kevin Stewart
Obviously if you measure that by various sound quality factors. That wasn't the point. It's that this device does the exact same stuff with DSP.
stereo is possible if you have two. im expecting woofer tuning to go down to ~50-55 hz but lacking in absolute spl, perhaps around 90 db. can't have it all in a tiny size but if this makes the best out of that ridiculous motor, it's going to sound surprisingly low and loud.
Joseph Parker
>even buying two the absolute mad man
Christopher Campbell
im sure those people exist, it's apple. the target audience probably isn't exactly well versed in stereophonic sound so i doubt they care.
