HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
That’s smaller than I thought it’d be. Interesting. Actually seems a little too small to be honest; I could easily see something like this being up to 12” around, especially if it would allow for a punchier bass for a home audio solution in the living room.
Yes, if you break out the tape measure, especially a roll of paper towels is a great way to fake one for the purposes of getting a sense of it's size within your rooms. Just saw that paper towel roll off at 6.8" high, remove enough sheets to get it to the 5.6" wide and you've got the presence of HP's size. It IS SMALL!
Normally, SMALL is bad for bass. So the gushing praise from the demo attendees does lend itself toward being some kind of breakthrough if it sounds so very good. My own ears have got to hear competing devices in friend's homes. In general, I think they sound pretty good for tiny-sized speakers. Friends bring various smallish speakers to the community pool on the weekend and "throw" sound to them from phones, tablets & iPods (remember those?) and lots of little speakers- some under $100- can sound pretty good too.
So the potential here is dazzling if the sound is as great as implied by demo attendees- especially coming from such a smallish package. Some of the demos have explicitly complimented the bass which adds to the dazzle if that plays out when these things are in the wild.
Apple can be very impressive and they sure are pushing the ONE dominant message of best quality sound. Objective ears need to be ready to hear these for ourselves. I'm keeping an open mind... but waiting for a variety of real reviews and then going to hear them for myself.
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