It is when it is specifically focusing sound in different directions. It's just omnidirectional in terms of where it can aim the sound field, not in terms of what actually comes out. It automatically balances effects from walls and other objects around it to account for sound that is meant to travel in a specific direction.
That directionality cannot be accomplished over a usable bandwidth. HomePod is simply too small, and has too few elements, to provide beamforming capabilities much below 1 kHz. Meaning you might hear cymbals from the right location, but the rest of the band is "somewhere over in that half of the room". Physics - can't break those laws!
Apple audio products have mostly been pretty successful it seems like. The only one that is not really around anymore is the Airport Express, but it was not primarily and audio product...
Apple Hi Fi. And I know of at least TWO attempts at making a home audio speaker that were aborted by Apple (back when Jobs was still there) because they couldn't figure it out. Apple has yet to make a successful speaker product. Flat out. And with Google Buds offering real time translation, I think you'll see AirPods relegated to the 10% or so who have an iPhone - meaning, people buy them because they are "in the ecosystem", not converted to it.
Bore times stroke. Diameter times motion. The 9 drivers in the 901 had about 1mm of linear excursion; the one in the Play:1 will out-displace all 9 of those ful range drivers in the 901. SPL is a function of displacement, and that means the motion in and out is as critical as the diameter. A small bore/large stroke can generate as much SPL as a large bore/small stroke woofer. Take a listen to a Play:1 sometime - it'll surprise you.
Probably because it will be used for music reproduction the vast majority of the time. If the primary use of the product is as a speaker, then calling it a speaker seems to make sense.
Yes, a bigger speaker is usually better for acoustics, no omnidirectional (like HomePod) is not good for audio quality in a room, and yes you can run a pair of Max in a stereo pair. This is more a shot across the bow of SONOS and the new SONOS Home just announced, rather than HomePod. Even the pricing and shape and functionality are reminiscent of the SONOS Play:5. HomePod will probably end up like all previous Apple audio products - forgotten in two years, never to be discussed again.
You'd be surprised... I've done lots of real sub-5" woofers, with real stroke. Like 10+mm one way on a Klippel. Even smaller can rock. For example, I designed the transducers in the SONOS Play:1 and that 3.5" woofer has an 8.6mm one way excursion (per Klippel measurements). It'll throw down with most 5.25" woofers, and even embarrass quite a few 6.5" units. SPL is about displacement, and that is bore times stroke, and you can do REALLY big stroke if you know what you're doing...
Yes. And that means the companies were not paying their legally required taxes? Who decides what companies should pay within a sovereign nation? Is it the nation, or the EU? And if there is an issue - does it mean the company didn't pay its legally required taxes, or that the nation violated some trade agreement it had?
Yeah, that's EU logic for you! Amazon comes to Luxembourg, and Luxembourg says "pay us this much tax to be in our country". Amazon does so. Brussels doesn't agree, and then says to Amazon "you have to pay US more, since Luxembourg gave you a deal we don't like". Why isn't Luxembourg on the hook? They are the ones who made the deal and had the power of taxation over Amazon... I suspect the answer lies in the EU being jealous of the success of the US companies, even though they pay a higher tax rate for earnings in their home country than all the EU except for Great Britain...
Actually, the companies WERE paying their legally required taxes; that's not in dispute. What is in dispute is the EU wants extra taxes from Ireland based upon income from Apple.
That is actually by regulation. Per EN50332 (which is required in France, and supposed to be required in the rest of the EU next year), the maximum SPL your bluetooth headphone can generate at 0 dBFS signal is 100 dB and any volume controls on the headphone turned to max. With a wired interface, you're limited to 100 dB SPL @ 175 mV input; meaning, if you have a volt or more output level (which is common for cell phones), you can reach peaks well above 100 dB SPL. Bluetooth is purposefully handicapped in volume by regulations, and you don't have the same limits with wired connections. Dynamic peaks of >100 dB SPL are great when you're averaging 70-75 dB SPL listening levels!
I still love Android. Of course, I use Samsung and they still have headphone jacks. No need for me to ever consider a Pixel 2. See, that's the advantage of Android - actual CHOICE about features, not just "which color and what size" like you get with Apple! If choice is confusing to you, then by all means live with an Apple product, but if you want to actually have a choice from dozens of manufacturers of a few hundred models - Android works nicely.
Yep! A common refrain at a client in SF is a wailing about all the dongles required to make their Mac/iOS device functional. I just smile as I open up my Lenovo laptop with all required connectors (USB, VGA, HDMI, MicroSD, headphones) and get to work...
Then I suspect you ignore safety requests/protocols and all presentations. Please see about 1 minute into this, cell phones are required to be turned off and MAY NOT BE USED during the flight. Flat out. You got lucky.
Good for you! Now, is the NY area dropping $100+ billion on high speed rail? No? Well - California is. With the aforementioned issue... Nice way for the idiots in Sacramento to not only blow our State's budgets further out of the water (excuse me, they balance them always by shifting expenditures/debts to the future), but suck up tens of billions in Federal subsidies and grants - so that NY and others cannot execute high speed rail where it would make sense...
Try any China airline. Cathay Pacific. Malaysia Air. Ask them if your Bluetooth headphone can be turned on. Heck, they insist you shut off your phone - like, turned off, not just in flight mode. And I fly too - Diamond on Delta and Gold on Cathay, about 270,000 miles a year (181K on Delta this year, 36K on Cathay - so far).
How many will commute from Fresno to Oildale? How many commute from LA to SF? Why even start to build a line if you don't know how to connect the largest metropolitan area in the nation to the second largest metropolitan area in the State?
One stock fund that TROUNCES thousands. Outperformed most. Meaning: it gets what's going on. And the fact that stock is up after a horrible earnings report just proves my point: TLSA is simply buoyed by hope and irrational exhuberance. Good luck with it, but it's worse than betting on tulip bulbs...
Not to mention most earbuds are lucky to get a few hours run-time per charge. Listen to an album or two, stop and charge for an hour, and repeat. That's a great way to enjoy your music!
Why? The DAC in most phones is amazingly good - it's the output amp that sucks, high output impedance and low output current. Add a small amplifier to that jack and you have a surprisingly good source for your headphones. A quick check with an APx525 will show performance that is close to SOTA from 4 years ago. And with a great set of IEMs, you can hear the difference between 256 kbps MP3 and losssless compression...
Top climate investment fund drops Tesla. Why? Concerns over overpriced stock. Even the pros can't see a way that Tesla becomes worth it's current market value. But hey - you probably also cheer-lead for a $60 billion valuation for Uber and think Twitter's stock price should be $100 per share, right?
Sucks to be you, then! In fact, the Note 5 on Verizon was just updated again today. My Note 5 - bought 2 years ago - launched with IIRC Lollipop. Now running Nougat - Android 7.0. Kept pace rather nicely! Perhaps your phone vendor is lazy and doesn't want to update? I get regular updates, every 4 to 8 weeks - security and OS.
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It is when it is specifically focusing sound in different directions. It's just omnidirectional in terms of where it can aim the sound field, not in terms of what actually comes out. It automatically balances effects from walls and other objects around it to account for sound that is meant to travel in a specific direction.
That directionality cannot be accomplished over a usable bandwidth. HomePod is simply too small, and has too few elements, to provide beamforming capabilities much below 1 kHz. Meaning you might hear cymbals from the right location, but the rest of the band is "somewhere over in that half of the room". Physics - can't break those laws!
Apple audio products have mostly been pretty successful it seems like. The only one that is not really around anymore is the Airport Express, but it was not primarily and audio product...
Apple Hi Fi. And I know of at least TWO attempts at making a home audio speaker that were aborted by Apple (back when Jobs was still there) because they couldn't figure it out. Apple has yet to make a successful speaker product. Flat out. And with Google Buds offering real time translation, I think you'll see AirPods relegated to the 10% or so who have an iPhone - meaning, people buy them because they are "in the ecosystem", not converted to it.
Bore times stroke. Diameter times motion. The 9 drivers in the 901 had about 1mm of linear excursion; the one in the Play:1 will out-displace all 9 of those ful range drivers in the 901. SPL is a function of displacement, and that means the motion in and out is as critical as the diameter. A small bore/large stroke can generate as much SPL as a large bore/small stroke woofer. Take a listen to a Play:1 sometime - it'll surprise you.
Probably because it will be used for music reproduction the vast majority of the time. If the primary use of the product is as a speaker, then calling it a speaker seems to make sense.
Yes, a bigger speaker is usually better for acoustics, no omnidirectional (like HomePod) is not good for audio quality in a room, and yes you can run a pair of Max in a stereo pair. This is more a shot across the bow of SONOS and the new SONOS Home just announced, rather than HomePod. Even the pricing and shape and functionality are reminiscent of the SONOS Play:5. HomePod will probably end up like all previous Apple audio products - forgotten in two years, never to be discussed again.
You'd be surprised... I've done lots of real sub-5" woofers, with real stroke. Like 10+mm one way on a Klippel. Even smaller can rock. For example, I designed the transducers in the SONOS Play:1 and that 3.5" woofer has an 8.6mm one way excursion (per Klippel measurements). It'll throw down with most 5.25" woofers, and even embarrass quite a few 6.5" units. SPL is about displacement, and that is bore times stroke, and you can do REALLY big stroke if you know what you're doing...
Yes. And that means the companies were not paying their legally required taxes? Who decides what companies should pay within a sovereign nation? Is it the nation, or the EU? And if there is an issue - does it mean the company didn't pay its legally required taxes, or that the nation violated some trade agreement it had?
Yeah, that's EU logic for you! Amazon comes to Luxembourg, and Luxembourg says "pay us this much tax to be in our country". Amazon does so. Brussels doesn't agree, and then says to Amazon "you have to pay US more, since Luxembourg gave you a deal we don't like". Why isn't Luxembourg on the hook? They are the ones who made the deal and had the power of taxation over Amazon... I suspect the answer lies in the EU being jealous of the success of the US companies, even though they pay a higher tax rate for earnings in their home country than all the EU except for Great Britain...
Actually, the companies WERE paying their legally required taxes; that's not in dispute. What is in dispute is the EU wants extra taxes from Ireland based upon income from Apple.
Pixel 2 costs more, too...
A three digit UID? Damn, when did you move from stone tablets to cell phones? I love my Note 8 too!
That is actually by regulation. Per EN50332 (which is required in France, and supposed to be required in the rest of the EU next year), the maximum SPL your bluetooth headphone can generate at 0 dBFS signal is 100 dB and any volume controls on the headphone turned to max. With a wired interface, you're limited to 100 dB SPL @ 175 mV input; meaning, if you have a volt or more output level (which is common for cell phones), you can reach peaks well above 100 dB SPL. Bluetooth is purposefully handicapped in volume by regulations, and you don't have the same limits with wired connections. Dynamic peaks of >100 dB SPL are great when you're averaging 70-75 dB SPL listening levels!
I still love Android. Of course, I use Samsung and they still have headphone jacks. No need for me to ever consider a Pixel 2. See, that's the advantage of Android - actual CHOICE about features, not just "which color and what size" like you get with Apple! If choice is confusing to you, then by all means live with an Apple product, but if you want to actually have a choice from dozens of manufacturers of a few hundred models - Android works nicely.
Yep! A common refrain at a client in SF is a wailing about all the dongles required to make their Mac/iOS device functional. I just smile as I open up my Lenovo laptop with all required connectors (USB, VGA, HDMI, MicroSD, headphones) and get to work...
Then I suspect you ignore safety requests/protocols and all presentations. Please see about 1 minute into this, cell phones are required to be turned off and MAY NOT BE USED during the flight. Flat out. You got lucky.
Good for you! Now, is the NY area dropping $100+ billion on high speed rail? No? Well - California is. With the aforementioned issue... Nice way for the idiots in Sacramento to not only blow our State's budgets further out of the water (excuse me, they balance them always by shifting expenditures/debts to the future), but suck up tens of billions in Federal subsidies and grants - so that NY and others cannot execute high speed rail where it would make sense...
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Correct! Another thing to pack in my case... Yeah, it's small - but it is One More Thing to bring and break and lose...
Try any China airline. Cathay Pacific. Malaysia Air. Ask them if your Bluetooth headphone can be turned on. Heck, they insist you shut off your phone - like, turned off, not just in flight mode. And I fly too - Diamond on Delta and Gold on Cathay, about 270,000 miles a year (181K on Delta this year, 36K on Cathay - so far).
How many will commute from Fresno to Oildale? How many commute from LA to SF? Why even start to build a line if you don't know how to connect the largest metropolitan area in the nation to the second largest metropolitan area in the State?
One stock fund that TROUNCES thousands. Outperformed most. Meaning: it gets what's going on. And the fact that stock is up after a horrible earnings report just proves my point: TLSA is simply buoyed by hope and irrational exhuberance. Good luck with it, but it's worse than betting on tulip bulbs...
Not to mention most earbuds are lucky to get a few hours run-time per charge. Listen to an album or two, stop and charge for an hour, and repeat. That's a great way to enjoy your music!
AptX is better, and universally judged so by the press. Of course, Apple support AptX in OSX. Why not in iOS? Go figure...
Why? The DAC in most phones is amazingly good - it's the output amp that sucks, high output impedance and low output current. Add a small amplifier to that jack and you have a surprisingly good source for your headphones. A quick check with an APx525 will show performance that is close to SOTA from 4 years ago. And with a great set of IEMs, you can hear the difference between 256 kbps MP3 and losssless compression...
Top climate investment fund drops Tesla. Why? Concerns over overpriced stock. Even the pros can't see a way that Tesla becomes worth it's current market value. But hey - you probably also cheer-lead for a $60 billion valuation for Uber and think Twitter's stock price should be $100 per share, right?
Sucks to be you, then! In fact, the Note 5 on Verizon was just updated again today. My Note 5 - bought 2 years ago - launched with IIRC Lollipop. Now running Nougat - Android 7.0. Kept pace rather nicely! Perhaps your phone vendor is lazy and doesn't want to update? I get regular updates, every 4 to 8 weeks - security and OS.