Yeah, if you clicked on this thread you're thinking the same as me.
Unfortunately there's no problem EQ yet - Homepod has the hardware to sound pretty decent, but the default sound is woeful, too muddy, too much mid, the bass is there to "wow" people when they first play it and there's just no top end at all. It sounds like someones thrown their coat over a decent speaker.
The only way to hack the EQ at the moment is to AirPlay from a Mac and use the EQ in iTunes - it appears to stop Homepod loading music direct from iTunes Cloud/Apple Music and actually stream from the Mac, so you get that old 3 second delay before things happen with AirPlay, I guess that'll be better when AP2 is out.
Unfortunately there's no problem EQ yet - Homepod has the hardware to sound pretty decent, but the default sound is woeful, too muddy, too much mid, the bass is there to "wow" people when they first play it and there's just no top end at all. It sounds like someones thrown their coat over a decent speaker.
The only way to hack the EQ at the moment is to AirPlay from a Mac and use the EQ in iTunes - it appears to stop Homepod loading music direct from iTunes Cloud/Apple Music and actually stream from the Mac, so you get that old 3 second delay before things happen with AirPlay, I guess that'll be better when AP2 is out.
No way of doing it on iOS, but if anyones interesting in having a little fiddle, this is a much better starting point for the Homepod sound - it still needs a bit of tweaking, perhaps pull 16k down a touch, material dependant and location as well - but I can actual listen to stuff now.
It really needs to be built into the speaker though so it applies to things like the news report - which currently sounds like someone is talking to you with something covering their mouth (and backed up by a subwoofer)
It really needs to be built into the speaker though so it applies to things like the news report - which currently sounds like someone is talking to you with something covering their mouth (and backed up by a subwoofer)
