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it's currently clear and 78 degrees in Los Angeles temperatures are heading down from 78 degrees this afternoon to 57 tonight lights on okay Jonathan here and this is home pod so I've got a chance for the last couple days with this a lot of thoughts a lot of impressions the first which being it is way smaller than you might think out of the box there's a whole lot going on and get the home pot itself a QuickStart guide and a singular Apple sticker I will say though sometimes it's the attention detail the small things that really make a difference the fabric on the power cord matches the home pod and that's kind of cool now set up on the home pod is one of the nicer parts of the experience if you've ever use air paws it's kind of similar to that where you stick your phone out a little home pod icon pops up you connect your never dive into any menus you let it do its thing and shortly thereafter you are good to go also first impressions these Siri animation towards the top of the home pile which you will see throughout this video is really well done I think rounds out the entire experience now when that Siri animation isn't engaged you can use the top of home pod for touch controls single tap to play a song or single tap to pause a song double tap to go next song a triple tap to go previous song press and hold will activate Siri and then you do of course have your volume up and volume down so from there I'm gonna jump into sound quality I know some people aren't gonna want to hear this but the home pod sounds really freaking good now I'm not gonna say it's as life-changing breathtaking magical experience but when you see the size of home pod and then you hear the sound that comes out of it 3 what stands out is not only the amount of low-end but the quality of loan that comes at a home pod when you hear how much bass comes out of a speaker the size that by itself is really surprising but what's more impressive is no matter how I turn this up and believe me it gets really loud it still doesn't break up or distort now design-wise home pod as a speaker is kind of unique for starters the woofer which is responsible for that low-end you would think would be placed towards the bottom but with the home pod it is actually placed towards the top then from there the tweeters which normally would think we placed towards the top those are on the bottom you have a total of six microphones surrounding home pod and lastly Apple's AHF which is doing the processing it's listening to the environment adapts in a real-time and while things may seem a little unorthodox whatever they're doing seems to be working now home pod was geared to work first and foremost without music and it does really well to give you an idea of how loud this thing is play Porter Robinson turn the volume to 75% turn the volume to 100% turn the volume to 10% stills kind of a good example of how well the microphones work within a home pod one the music was really loud in two I'm actually talking away from home pod face in this way and it still picked my voice really well now initially I was under the impression that for you Spotify you were kind of out of luck with home pod that it was really only geared for Apple music but not only can you airplay from Spotify which I'll do now you can actually use the voice controls to change everything so hey next track so you can see why you definitely want to use alpha music to get the most at a home pot if you do use Spotify there's a lot you can do with it next one of the biggest reasons you might be interested in home pod is home kits so far testing out home pod with home kit has worked extremely well behind me I have a couple Phillips hue lights and then an envelope light bulb right there and what I love about it is the ability to control things individually or all together now beyond that was kind of cool as the ability to group things together and create scenes so imagine you walk into your kitchen you say hey Siri good morning that turns on your lights opens your blinds starts your coffee that is all possible so to give an example of what a scene looks like I paired these two Phillips lights with this non smart lamp here that's going through a smart outlet and I've created the scene called put out the fire put out the fire conversely if I want those lights back on turn on the lights turn on that cool lamp from there you can note how quick the changes are it turn the lights blue now one downside with home pot is if you're looking to buy a pair of these to combine them into stereo mode that will not work at large that will come later this year with airplay to it is a free update but it's still a little disappointing that didn't happen at launch because that was honestly one of the most enticing features of home pot now it's also worth mentioning that if you don't have airplay to you don't have multi room control so if you wanted to have different home pods in different rooms throughout your house you gotta wait until airplay to comes out for them to talk to each other when it does come out and the home pods can talk to each other you can play the same song throughout your house or have independent control and place on them in your kitchen that is completely different from your living room but again if that's something you were looking forward to that is not available here at launch also I did see some initial fear that Siri was going to be extremely limited with home pod launch but from what I can tell you can send text you can make calls create reminders create notes so as far as that goes the really big drawback again is the lack of airplay too which enables stereo mode aside from that those are my initial impressions on home pot it's got a surprisingly great sound it's loud there is a ton of low-end it works great with home kit there are definitely some really really important features that are missing upon launch but overall pick one up I think you will dig this now if you want to see this compared against Google home max let me know by smashing that like button this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later