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Re:Apple HomePod by jd20 on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:02PM (#14491147)
Companies look like Dirac and Audyssey do this, but require you to move a microphone around a room while a test signal plays (from speakers that are usually spaced throughout a room). The big mystery to me would be how effective such room processing can be, when you're limited to measuring from the point where the sound is generated. (My personal experience would say not very. It'd make more sense to me if the user maybe held up their iPhone as a microphone and the system calibrated itself as they moved throughout the listening space.
Re:Apple HomePod by js2 on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:05PM (#14491209)
Sonos also does auto tuning now. The speaker plays a test tone as you walk around the room with an iOS or Android device with the Sonos app listening.