doelcm82
macrumors 68040
Agree. I want to like it, but it looks like it would go best with a coffee table made from cinder blocks. And a half-eaten pizza in a box (tomorrow morning's breakfast!) on top of it.
IKEA's New 'Symfonisk' Sonos Speakers With AirPlay 2 Now Available for Purchase
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bodonnell202
macrumors 68030
Yes
I feel like they missed the obvious by not putting a USB charging port on the bookshelf speaker. All the marketing images show using it as a night stand next to you bed. Adding a USB charging port for your phone if you’re using it as a night stand seems so obvious.
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I disagree. This isn’t a lamp you use as a main lamp to light a room. The glass is heavily frosted which restricts the light output. This is the kind of lamp you put on a small table in a dark corner if a room, only now it serves as a speaker too.
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I disagree. This isn’t a lamp you use as a main lamp to light a room. The glass is heavily frosted which restricts the light output. This is the kind of lamp you put on a small table in a dark corner if a room, only now it serves as a speaker too.
That’s correct.
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Agreed - would love to have something like a HomePod mini. I ended up buying a bunch of last-years iPads and some used ones to have Siri in every room. Works fine, and through Siri shortcuts you can still mimic room-specific voice commands (e.g. saying “lights off” instead of “lights off in the bedroom”)
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Try asking it a question. While Alexa and Google Home will at least try to answer it, Siri on the HomePod keeps saying “I can’t answer that on HomePod”. If I ask the same question on my iPad, it’s not a problem.
What’s also lacking on the HomePod is third-party integration, like news apps etc. Apple News only works in the US and the UK
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Thought the same thing. In reality, it’s pretty well built.
Just order one online from another state. I have three of them and they’re not available in Switzerland either. Other than the voice assistant, they’re not better than a sonos though.
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It’s just a socket. Put any HomeKit capable bulb in and you’re good to go. I added a Philips Hue bulb and it works like a charm.
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Looks better in person - it’s much smaller in reality than what it seems like in the ads.
It’s not the greatest designer lamp ever, but it’s inoffensive.
Well fair point. Let’s say one perceived downside then!
Vjosullivan
macrumors 65816
That wins today's "Daftest Statement on an Internet forum" award.
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The proportions aren't right. Perhaps if they added a toaster in place of the light...
Harvey Zoltan
macrumors 6502
Wow the lamp and speaker combo is hideous beyond belief.
MoreRumors?
macrumors 6502a
Looks interesting. I'll have to go by Ikea and see if there is a demo available for both speakers so I can hear how it sounds and for that price it is reasonable.
Yes, IKEA does have a demo set up with both the speaker and the lamp.
No the lamp is not HomeKit capable.
Both are larger than I thought they would be from the pictures. I was hoping that they would be smaller so I could place them in more inconspicuous locations.
Mounted horizontally, the bookshelf speak really does make a good sized shelf.
Installing g them as a stereo pair later today.
No the lamp is not HomeKit capable.
Both are larger than I thought they would be from the pictures. I was hoping that they would be smaller so I could place them in more inconspicuous locations.
Mounted horizontally, the bookshelf speak really does make a good sized shelf.
Installing g them as a stereo pair later today.
Ask a neighbor or school kid of you don't understand what it says.
techno-Zen
macrumors 68000
So these sound terrible or what?
RealMonster
macrumors regular
Even if these sound mediocre, you can set up the bookshelf ones to be an actual shelf, and 90% of what I play over the speakers at home is podcasts anyway. The problem is that right now, I have to plug my phone into a wire to do it, so if I'm in another part of the apartment and I want to change tracks, I have to walk back over. I had my setup include my AirPort express for a while, and being able to play audio through that was amazing, but I had to abandon that—not enough power sockets in that area. :/
Did you try any other task? Did you ever try Google Assistant? There’s no comparison. Not even close.
techno-Zen
macrumors 68000
They are all terrible in their own ways in my opinion
Are you kidding me? It looks so old fashioned to me... It's even more ugly to me than the square camera bumps on the backside of the iPhone.
routine_analyst
macrumors 65816
The brand lost me when they went from IKEA sans to Verdana.
I wonder how many of these will be returned because the sound was so bad. As bad as Verdana.
I wonder how many of these will be returned because the sound was so bad. As bad as Verdana.
I'm not interested at all in other tasks and have no need for a "smart" speaker to answer questions.
Siri is the ideal UI to engage HomePod and Apple Music, and work incredibly well together. It's a well-designed system. I'd guess they (HomePod & Siri) get used around four hours a day here.
Different people have different tastes. Is this news?
bodonnell202
macrumors 68030
Most reviews are saying the sounds is close to a Sonos One, which is quite good for the cost. If I didn't already have a pair of Play 1s as surrounds for my Sonos Beam, I would definitely be looking at the bookshelf speakers considering the price.
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Hmmm... interesting. Most reviews are saying that the sound is similar to (although not quite as good as) the Sonos One. Can you elaborate on your Ikea experience? Maybe Ikea was playing something awful or the EQ was messed up?
https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/sonos-ikea-symfonisk-bookshelf-speaker