For those who have embraced HomeKit as their smart-home platform of choice, the new HomePod and the HomePod mini are equally good control hubs, but the HomePod adds support for the new Matter smart-home protocol. The speaker also supports room sensing (to automatically tailor the sound to your environment) and Atmos spatial audio (available on many tunes in Apple Music), and you can link two HomePods together to listen to music in stereo mode. Through Siri voice control, you can play music from Apple Music and other linked streaming services, as well as your own iCloud-based music library. It’s no surprise that the HomePod can play louder than the HomePod mini and deliver more bass, and in our tests, its sound quality was competitive with the best-sounding smart speakers we’ve tried. It is roughly three times larger than the Mini, incorporates five tweeters and a 4-inch woofer, and includes a large LED control screen on top, as well as a detachable power cord. For music fans who are heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem, the HomePod (2nd generation) is Apple’s biggest, best-sounding smart speaker-a step up sonically from the HomePod mini.
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