HomePod Mini vs Echo vs Nest – Smart Speaker Comparison!
HomePod Mini vs Echo vs Nest – Smart Speaker Comparison!
We compare Sound Quality, Features, Smarts, downsides, and more!
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Apple’s new HomePod Mini comes at a much lower $99 price compared to the original HomePod which is now $299.
There are some pretty awesome new features like the Intercom feature, but in this video, we are going to focus on sound quality by listening to three different genres of music.
At the same time, Google released a new Nest Audio speaker which is much louder and should have better sound quality with a dedicated woofer and tweeter for the same $99 as the homepod mini and Amazon has brand new 4th Gen Echo and Echo Dot for $99 and $49 as well.
Which smart speaker is the best in terms of sound quality and features, and what limitations do they have? Lets find out!!
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Timestamps ⬇️
Smart Speaker Comparison – 00:00
Quality & Features – 00:34
First Song – EDM – 02:26
Volume Differences – 03:19
Second Song – Rock – 04:01
360 vs 180 Sound – 06:11
Third Song – Modern Classical – 06:37
Which should you buy? – 08:07
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remember sound is logarithmic, so every 10 decibels is 10x louder!
The Homepod is the best balanced one, sadly you are locked to iOS and apple ecosystem
Yes no 💰💰💰💰🎁
like the features, setup was difficult for some of my devices (August Door lock, https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxhB5YOMNj04GuoAosExygP4cH-dKeb4aB Bose speaker)… but all switches and outlets (5), thermostat, tankless water heater. Unfortunately all I can do is turn on/off Bose. It doesn’t support volume or changing channels, but I believe that is due to the particular speaker I have…. Worth getting if you already have other devices to use it with… I don’t sit around and ask Alexa questions much so that doesn’t really matter to me….
W HomePod mini
😢😢😢 I…. just ~2 weeks ago bought the Echo Dot and I love music! I thought the Dot was great (in terms of sound as well) as I had an old Google Home Mini in the other room.
For rock, the Homepod mini sounded the worst and compressed but dang are they all close (similar priced ones)
Which speaker sounded better to you and which would YOU buy? Let us know below!
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I really like your videos but it happens quite often that your on screen graphics are incorrect. For example, the playing indicator during the rock song example.
Glad to see the one thats winning is mine 🙂 Echo 4th gen.
the elephant in the room: you don’t like the nest audio and you want something to match your Apple watch
Homepod mini!Ihava a echo dot!
Home pod
1. Homepod mini 2. Echo
I will not buy any of them. Will spend some extra bucks and buy sonos with built in assistant.
If you’ve been using component system for all your music, then you hear this form of sound output. Well there’s the take it with you. 500watts and tin can.
Apples and oranges it’s all gone pear shaped!
Sound quality- home pod mini
Echo dot sounds tinny
The standard echo is by far the best of those 4.
Now I know I have to buy the HomePod mini
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I have an echo spot with a touchscreen
Damn it man, i mainly need one of these for turning shit on and off with my smart appliances. Everything i own supports alexa or google and none support the apple homepod. It sucks that i am balls deep into the apple eco system.
there’s an error with the video when comparing the rock song.
I have an Echo Dot and it sounds great. You didn’t turn up the volume because you might want to make it look bad next to the others. Not ok
You have a goddamn equalizer on the google home app for ur nest audio
Well you have bad editer at 5:11 or the second song full they forgot to change the speaker icon from homepod to the echo dot
At around 5:03 why does the sound quality turn bad? Bad attention to detail.. pretty much can guess that low quality music is the echo mini..
I mean come’on.. could’ve tried a little harder with editing.. laziness lol
I am stereo pairing a set of Google Next Speakers…$50 each on ebay combined with loving the combination of what Google delivers with youtube subscriptions (no ads plus youtube music) made the choice easy. I do use a lot of apple products, but they don’t connect to Youtube music.
7:18 Why aren’t you showing the Echo Dot?
the big echo sounds the best
To have a fair comparison you would need to match the volume levels in Decibels of any audio test because the human ear always hears louder and thinks it is better. This has been tested by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and MIT. The conclusion is always the same are multiple scientific white papers on this phenomena. Its just like video where your eye thinks brighter is better, you r ear will think louder is better. Thanks for doing the test it is really appreciated.
Echo and nest have zero bass at all. The echo sounds just like the name, just an echo, no sound quality at all.
The rock song sounded awful on the HomePod Mini.
you really messed up which speaker was playing on the rock track, when the HomePod mini was playing, you put the volume icon above the big echo. you can tell when the homepod mini was playing based off of the light on top
I loved the HomePod mini it had great sound
The Google nest sounded the best with the HomePod at a close second The echos can get thrown in the trash
Echo hands down, no competition
I don’t care about sound. I care about the personality of the assistant. I can’t stand Amazon Echo/Alexa by now. It never shuts up. Even on Brief mode it constantly adds "By the way," or asks "Did I get that right?" It’s also a pain to deal with in several other ways. I’m only here today because despite being heavily invested in Amazon Echo and Amazon Smart Plugs (that only work with Echo), I just can’t take it anymore and have to find something else that just does its job and otherwise keeps quiet. Imagine being interrupted constantly at inappropriate volumes (people are sleeping, or first thing in the morning, for instance) by every light switch or outlet in your house and that’s what it’s like to invite the Amazon Echo/Alexa combo in. It’s torture that never ends.
HomePod mini sound is more clean and listenable than others.
my daughter wants to buy the HomePod mini and the echo dot
Considering I’m a Rock/metal head it Sounds like I’m getting the standard echo
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he has the volume turned down on the echos this guy is a spokes person for apple and very dishonest
I just bought myself one I love the sound quality it’s personally better than my google nest mini
apple is trash they are always way over priced i would nt shit on an apple product
Got me a couple of Nest speakers on sale from Google with 33% off a few years ago (only €66 each). Probably the best tech investment I’ve ever made. When paired up & output adjusted via the equaliser settings those really pack some punch. Assistant works very well in general, but on occasion I get a response telling me ‘I can’t find the other speaker in this pair’ for playback which can be somewhat annoying. For the price I got them at it was a win-win situation.
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The standard echo sounds best, echo dot sounds worst. Ironic.
HomePod
I have 9 Echo dots and 2 Show’s in my home. I’m replacing them with Google, simply because Google seems to have a LOT more information, and a better understanding of what it’s being asked to do. Case in point: ‘Alexa, how much is the lottery?’ (I get an unrelated answer) I ask another 4 times, and get similarly unrelated answers. It takes about 5 asks before getting a straight answer.
I can ask for information on an upcoming album drop, and am told ‘Sure. here’s (unrelated / unrequested) music’. Alexa, how’s the traffic? I get directions to a destination I’ve never requested. Alexa, shuffle my music … nothing plays. I ask another 3-4 times. ALEXA! PLAY MY MUSIC!! a podcast starts. It’s just too much. When I fight with my AI on a daily basis, it’s time to disconnect.