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Episode #91 – The Apple HomePod Sounds Great, Except When it Doesn’t

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Kirk got his HomePod. He spent a couple of hours listening to music to judge the sound quality. In short, it sounds great at times, but at others it doesn’t.

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Show notes:

  • Wrapping it right: In praise of Apple’s packaging
  • Sonos PLAY:5
  • Cambridge Audio Minx Air 100
  • Coldplay: The Scientist
  • Bob Dylan: Cold Irons Bound
  • Talking Heads: I Zimbra
  • Brian Eno: Just Another Day

    • (This disc is not available on Apple Music.)

  • The Cure: Faith
  • David Bowie: “Heroes”
  • Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
  • Brian Eno: St. Elmo’s Fire
  • Joy Division: She’s Lost Control
  • Grateful Dead: Ripple
  • Brad Mehldau: Exit Music (For a Film)
  • Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95, “Serioso”; Takács Quartet
  • Tobias Hume: Musicall Humours, Jordi Savall
  • Purcell: Fantasies for Viols, Phantasm
  • Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: No.39 Aria: “Erbarme Dich” Magdalena Kozená
  • Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Blue
  • Brad Mehldau: River Man
  • Grateful Dead: Truckin’
  • Coldplay: ‘Til Kingdom Come

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