The technology that houses the HomePod in its small size (18cm) is enormous, and everything responds to Apple's intention that the sound it emits is the best that a speaker of this type can generate. To do this, it has added a technology that allows the HomePod to adapt the sound it emits to the room in which it is located and to the exact place it occupies in the room.
The HomePod's adaptive audio is one of its great assets in impressing your listeners, and It seems that according to the first reviews of the lucky ones who have been able to try it in person Apple has done a great job. We tell you the details of this technology below.
Sound is complicated to handle, because it not only depends on who is emitting it but where it is made and who is perceiving it. The technology that houses a speaker is very important, but on many occasions we forget that the room in which we place it influences a lot, and the place where we place it even more. Walls and other obstacles can make a good product sound less than worth it.. Have you ever argued because someone says that television is not heard when you listen too loud? It is not that one is deaf, it is that not all of us in the same room perceive sound the same because it comes to us in a different way.
The HomePod has seven tweeters (tweeters), each with its own amplifier and oriented in a circular way to cover 360º- Equally distributed, it has six microphones that can pick up the sound in that same amplitude, and a digital processor of signals (DSP) that together can know the environment in which the speaker is located thanks to the fact that the same speaker captures the sound it emits. With all these elements and an A8 processor (the one in the iPhone 6), it is how the HomePod manages to adapt its sound to the place where you are.
The first opinions about the sound of the HomePod have already come from the hand of a small group of journalists and experts who have been able to attend some tests controlled by Apple, and everyone agrees that the sound of the speaker is really impressive for a product of its size, highlighting above all how well the sounds that come from different instruments and the voices of the singers differ.