Interesting to hear you say this in light of all (at least all that I've read) very positive reviews of the sound quality.
What are your thoughts on the positive reviews?
What are your thoughts on the positive reviews?
[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/head-head-apple-homepod-reall...
[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/02/09...
I am saying for the money you could get a pair of monitors that give you both left and right audio channels and sounds good.
If your playing music, but not really setting up a listening environment why buy a 350 dollar speaker. Let alone one that downmixes stero to mono channel.
A studio/sound engineer needs to hear the full range of frequencies when mixing and working on a track.
If you need more low end than what a set reference monitors can reproduce that woofer in home pod is probably not going to do better.
I have seen how sonos and other wireless products are used - to fill a room with sound. That's it - they aren't looking for stereo separation, they want a nice sounding... pa system.