{"id":66,"date":"2018-02-22T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-04T13:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T20:27:39","slug":"more-homepod-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"More HomePod fun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to laugh. This will undoubtedly cause you to chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; bought the HomePod right? Had it for a few days. Liked it. Not sure it was better-sounding than my Harman Kardon speakers but figured I&#8217;d keep it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>A couple nights later, had a few beers, and did a bunch of comparison testing between the two speaker systems.<\/p>\n<p>That night, I initiated a return of the HomePod. The next day I took it to FedEx and shipped it back.<\/p>\n<p>Then I came to some realizations (which I will detail below). Last weekend I happened to be near the Apple Store in Bridgeport Village. So I went and picked up another HomePod before the return on my first one had even processed.<\/p>\n<p>So here are the realizations&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s probably better not to test out speaker systems while under the influence. Because anything with booming bass sounds good.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s probably better not to test with Metallica when my normal listening material is classical music.<\/li>\n<li>Loud sound doesn&#8217;t equal good sound.<\/li>\n<li>Bass-heavy sound doesn&#8217;t equal good sound either.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the reasons for some of these conclusions, was some research I was doing into &#8220;studio monitor&#8221; type speakers. I have a set of well-rated studio monitors that make good PC speakers. Come to find out my Harman Kardon 2.1 system is also well-rated. So I was trying to decide which to use (since I had returned my HomePod).<\/p>\n<p>Studio monitor speakers attempt to reproduce recordings the way they were recorded without adding &#8220;color&#8221; to the sound. This can honestly result in some boring listening. Because there isn&#8217;t much bass and the sound is relatively flat. But it&#8217;s a more &#8220;honest&#8221; reproduction of the recording.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the 2.1 style systems. Which can produce some pretty good bass. But my feeling is&#8230; the 2.1 system definitely does color the sound. And while it sounds way better when cranking up Metallica after a few beers, it&#8217;s probably not &#8220;quality&#8221; sound.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when I concluded that the Apple HomePod is probably a great speaker for me and the type of music I typically listen to. Will the Harman Kardons outcrank it while playing bass-heavy rock? Sure. But the HomePod probably produces better quality and more accurate sound.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, what you see in the picture is my HomePod elevated on a &#8220;yoga block&#8221;. I have no idea what yoga blocks are used for. But an audio guy said the HomePod sounds better when elevated a bit and recommended them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to laugh. This will undoubtedly cause you to chuckle. So&#8230; bought the HomePod right? Had it for a few days. Liked it. Not sure it was better-sounding than my Harman Kardon speakers but figured I&#8217;d keep it anyway. A couple nights later, had a few beers, and did a bunch of comparison testing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More HomePod fun&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}