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Kicking myself I didn't pick one of for £199 now, never thought they'd go back up! (edit : found one at the high street store that announced it was closing shops yesterday, those "Partners" are gonna be upset!)
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It’s still £279 at Apple.
That’s happened before, the last time they were down to £199, quite a few places had them at that price.
/edit - I’m not saying you’re wrong, just not to read too much into the price drop as it’s happened before.
I'm not seeing that. On the 4th they were still £279 at all the shops I checked and then @HEADRAT posted on the 10th to say they were at £199 again so they went down sometime between the 4th and the 10th. Even if they went down the day after I checked then that's only been nine days.The difference that I see is that they've gone to £199 and stayed there for a good while now. They've have regularly gone down to £199 and then back up ever since they were released.
Out of curiosity, how would a pair of stereo Homepods sound in comparison to (say) an £100 amp linked to a couple of decent £100 speakers?
I'm looking for people who've experienced both, rather than just saying the Homepods sound great.
I've got a muso-qb at home and though it's decent quality, it lacks a bit of oomph and there's no way of pairing it with a second. Though at £750-odd, I'm not in a hurry to buy another.
what I’ve understood when I was doing my research from audiophile forums and reddit was that you probably need to spend £1000 if you want to noticeably beat HomePods with custom setups.
This is just so subjective.
Yeah one of my bug bears with using it with ATV4K is that even though you can set the HomePods to be the output rather than the TV speakers it always seems to toggle back to TV when it goes into standby etc. This feature is in "beta" so I'm hoping that it actually work when properly released.
In terms of the sound I'm happy, they produce a surprising amount of bass for such a small speaker, I'm quite happy with that but others might find it a tad unbalanced/overpowered. They are a neat solution but I guess it depends what other Apple Products you have, they are heavily dependant on the Apple "food chain" in order to get the best/most out of them.