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

Our next tracks:

• Doug: Abraham Inc.: Tweet-Tweet

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