The test got bigger.
@marcoarment Is this in an Apple Store? A new kitchen scene. ;-)
@marcoarment Would love to hear your thoughts on all of these with the context of comparable bookshelf wired speakers
@marcoarment God bless you for doing this.
@gruber @marcoarment looks like a bunch of HomePod candles 😂
@marcoarment Unrelated but damn I love the design of the wall there
@christianselig WAS JUST THINKING THE SAME THING
@marcoarment next @atpfm episode will be at least four hours 😆
@marcoarment any chance you can throw a Sonos One in the mix too? I’d love to know how it stacks up to the bunch 🔈🔉🔊

@exkclamation I don't have them anymore, but I previously had a stereo pair of Ones.

I can't compare them to the new HomePods, but the old HomePods blew them away. The Ones are probably better than the HomePod Mini, but they're also twice the price and size.

I find the One to be a very overrated product in terms of audio quality.

@marcoarment Pfew; I expected to hear this… https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
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@marcoarment One Of These Things (Is Not Like The Others)
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
@marcoarment you gotta add a pair of sonos ones to the mix to head off the inevitable follow up question 😀
@marcoarment Top Four — 97: HomePods In Our Kitchen

@marcoarment Dunno if you’d find it relevant, but I tried our two new HomePods as a potential replacement for our “home theater” setup. I’m doing a write up on my smart home setup for some friends and included a mini-review of my experiment:

> We did a bake-off to consider replacing our $220 Visio sound bar (our "home theater" setup combined with a 55” TCL TV in the basement) with a $600 pair of HomePods. The sound bar was anemic for music compared to the HomePods, but won out on richer movie sound — my guess is HomePod is simply passing through TV and movie audio but algorithmically enhancing music, an advertised feature.

If you want to see that mini-review in context:

https://www.craft.do/s/6GheuFG9njEJzf

@marcoarment all of those exhibit reason why I went with black HomePod 1st gen (after getting white mini first)
@marcoarment now say “Hey Siri” and tell us what happens :)
@marcoarment Started playing this 22 minutes ago. Got distracted. Never stopped it. Now, I'm afraid I can't stop it, no matter what I do.
@marcoarment doing the work all youtube reviewers missed 🙏
@marcoarment Is it just moiré in the video that makes the white mesh look dirty?
@jerrod Moiré makes the new ones look dirty. The old ones actually are slightly dirty as well.
@marcoarment looking forward to the next episode of Top Four
@marcoarment no stereo pair of the Echoes? Or Echo Dots?
@Bryson I had two Echoes, but they're so shittily built that the second one died after three months. The Dots sound so awful that they're not really worthy of consideration — they're basically e-waste.
@marcoarment crash test dummies 👌🏻
@marcoarment I've got all those and Sonos Ones too
@jsnell i want to add a +1 for the Symfonisk recommendation from this week’s #upgrade. Use them in my home office and definitely do the job for music quality and Sonos compatibility.
@chintan I'm sorry, I think you are looking for @imyke... I'm not looking for speakers 😊
@jsnell @imyke yeah. I think you’re right. That’ll teach me to not instatoot while listening to the podcast. 😛
@marcoarment Congratulations for beating Portal 2.
@marcoarment I think this calls for an intervention.
@marcoarment that Google Home sounds *amazing*. Like a whole orchestra of crash-test dummies
@marcoarment Finally, you can experience The Who’s “Quadrophenia” the way it was meant to be heard!
@marcoarment You do have a fun looking job.
@marcoarment God Shuffled his Feet by the Crash Test Dummies. I love it!
@marcoarment we need a video review!! I know you’re not a fan of the format 😂
@marcoarment Trying to expand the stereo pair feature to support a 7.2.2 Atmos setup?
@marcoarment this kitchen setup is so clean & well designed that Cook may come asking for the rights to show it on his next Apple slide about how “everyone loves HomePod”
@InterfaceEngineer Maybe then he'd give me a shorter power cord
@marcoarment don’t blow a fuse Marco!
@marcoarment Dang, that's a nice wall! 😍
@marcoarment Damn y’all got a nice kitchen 👌
@marcoarment Ideal setup for listening to white noise.