"Boss I came up with a really cool and easy way to screw this together so it is easy to repair!"."You did what?! We are Apple, you go pour glue on that thing".
Apple: Whats are these called? Everybody else: Screws Apple: Your saying there are other ways to mount and connected stuff together? Everybody else:Yes? Next week Apple releases Retina Screws work like normal screws
@@realvivifromloona better sound yet it cant even be used as a speaker, nor does it even work properly with spotify or any third party app that has anything to do with music. Cant even us it as a speaker for a mac. I'd expect more from apple but, I shouldn't even be surpriced. It's just basically a siri/apple music speaker and that's it.
The way jailbreaking iPhones in the past taunted Apple to counter with software upgrades against it, iFixit teardowns now taunt them to make their products unfixable! They probably have an entire department in the basement of the spaceship dedicated to inventing new unbreachable adhesives.
It's definitely meant to be torn apart for refurbishing, that's why all components held by their place with screews, but you have to break the sealing to get to it. I think it's made that way to exclude the possibility of 3rd-party repair.
Maybe it's for vibration. The sub seems large and powerful enough to make a big plastic thread turn loose all by itself. And even if it doesn't come off (it's still held in place) it might start to vibrate and make noise when playing stuff.
Juan Carballo yeah, there can be a huge overlap in the relationship between the size and type of a speaker driver! For example, my main system uses four closed back 3" tweeters for treble only, two 10" woofers in sealed enclosures for the midbass/midrange, and eight 8" subwoofers in 4.4 cu ft of ported enclosure tuned to 30Hz which are properly filtered and only play true sub-bass from 80Hz down to 20Hz. Compare that to my backpack (rucsac) system which has a 3" extended range driver in a sealed enclosure for "midbass"/midrange AND treble, and two special 3.5" "RBM" subwoofers in 0.16 cu ft of ported enclosure tuned to 35Hz which play "sub-bass" from 120Hz down to 30Hz!
Yeah, the ads are deceiving. They make it look like the tweeters are openly pointing out the sides just under the mesh and that's obviously not the case.
Apple market themselves as a company that cares about the environment but increasingly they create extremely difficult to repair - and in this case impossible to repair 'as good as new' hardware. Disgusting - they are so rich and do not need to do this.
apple has been doing this since the the iphone 5s.. the iphone 4 and previose were built likje lego, with very little glue... but now the relish in the fact that the can make thing look reparable, then add glue to every thread possible.. the have been outsourcing their waste to external companies for years to make it seem like they dont produce much. . im my opinion, paying an external company to deal with you trash is the same as making the trash yourself . fun fact, when i was living n toronoto, i used to get brand new iphones that were either retunred or apple deemed them unfit to repair ( most of them were brand new) from a samller company that apple was paying to ÈrecycleÈ for them .. the recycling company either burned eveything in an incinerator, or allowed the employees to steal them .. it was great for me, i got free iphones all the time, but it really expsed me to the gross under belly of how these large tech companies make it seem like they are being eco freindly, while paying opther companies to take the heat for producing unnecessary waste
I have not once in my life heard of apple marketing themself as good for the environment. I dislike apple, and I'm not saying you are wrong, but if they are marketing it as such they are doing a pretty bad job since I've only just heard about it from you.
This Thinge is Build like a Tank, i dont think there are alot of ways to destroy this badboy. That is why it has so much adhecive, the subwoofer is super Powerfull. Was it build like your 20.- China speaker it would take about 1 week before breaking down
3:09 did I miss something or did you not even try to get the 7 tweeters around the bottom edge out? Or maybe it was too hard and you didn't include that in the video.
Apple actually use quality nippon chemi-con capacitors, usually these kind of speakers cheap out on that because it doesn't have to last more than a couple of years, sonos for example uses cheap capxon capacitors
Could you please write the part number on the back of the magnet or on the side of the number for me to find out what brand or company made the woofer?
I think those hex screws at 1:56 would be accessible via an angled hex wrench, without "removing" that part you cut off, starting at 1:36. Sure, you and I wouldn't be able to know that without a guide, or getting lucky. However, if those hex screws really are accessible with a tiny angled hex wrench, I think it would be nice of you to mention that in the description, via captions, or something, so that this video becomes even more informative!
I think there is that much adhesive because I have a few and even though they don’t really vibrate the table they are on there is probably a lot of pressure on that sub if there is a high bass song ant max volume
I was able to open my HomePod without destroying the whole thing. instead of cutting that top ring open, you should heat and pry it from the INSIDE. there are a bunch of channels on top of the screws underneath where you can fit a long screwdriver or something and use it as a lever to pry it out, it's actually pretty easy to do, then the rest of the teardown follows normally as shown in the video
They screwed two halves together and sealed it with adhesive when it was being made. It seems like at such a price hike, they will basically give you a new one. The new one will probably have recycled parts from other speakers that had defective pieces. Basically, all they need to do is put everything into two casings and screw them together.
See they make it look like a speaker in the nice see through graphics but infact is a bunch of speakers in a plastic tube. Why the tweeters are facing down I don’t know.
try putting it into an oven for some time to help with the glue problem. I would try at around 60 degree Celsius to avoid damaging any electronic components
Much better than that "what's inside" channel that basically destroyed the thing from the beginning of their teardown.
That channel is garbage imho
That's kinda the point of their channel though
Yeah I really hate What's Inside. They don't actually show what's inside very well considering what their channel name is.
Jacob Wood a g r e e
yeah i was a little offended by that video as well this was much better
FINALLY a teardown video of the HomePod
what’s inside already did this :))
What’s inside had one before them
What's inside didn't do a teardown. They did a smash and grab
there was a "destroy" video before...
Kyle Christen but was it professional? no.
Coming from What’s Inside, this was a really clean tear down
Shahid Khan you mean dan and Linkin from What's Inside
So many screws.
Yeah apparently they take an axe to everything 🤷
Well, according to What's Inside....WHAT, A SCREWDRIVER...NEVER HEARD OF ONE.
😂🤣🤣😂
"Boss I came up with a really cool and easy way to screw this together so it is easy to repair!"."You did what?! We are Apple, you go pour glue on that thing".
Apple: Whats are these called?
Everybody else: Screws
Apple: Your saying there are other ways to mount and connected stuff together?
Everybody else:Yes?
Next week
Apple releases Retina Screws work like normal screws
probbably due to audiodynamics maybe
Please do tear down of Tesla Model 3
Bryan Samuel I’d watch that
"Welcome to part 659 of 1230 of our Tesla Model 3 teardown, In this video we will disassemble the passenger side power window"
Bryan Samuel My God! Million dollars of waste
Lol wtf
YES!!! That would be incredible. I wonder what the repairability score would be on that?
It's like the MacPro had a baby.
wow
Lol
@@twmax4137 lmao
@@twmax4137
Lmao chill, the HomePod has better sound than the Google Home Max and basically anything in its price range
@@realvivifromloona better sound yet it cant even be used as a speaker, nor does it even work properly with spotify or any third party app that has anything to do with music. Cant even us it as a speaker for a mac. I'd expect more from apple but, I shouldn't even be surpriced. It's just basically a siri/apple music speaker and that's it.
Man Apple doesn't want you to get into any of their stuff anymore.
OneBadAssDJ well anything that could get them extra money...they would do it...even if that means making it hard for their consumers
iPhones lol
It has to be robustly built, or else that sub woofer would eventually shake everything apart.
I mean, it is built really well, damn.
Just like your girlfriend
That thing had a beefy subwoofer inside
Brynnon D. *Woofer
Yeah it did. I was impressed by that.
*Midbass driver
It’s a woofer not a subwoofer
The cord that plugs into the wall is remove able!
great, it gets 1.5 score then ! :)
no its not
Nicholas meade I think the entire population of the internet knows this by now, thank you anyway.
No its not
Yes! I was really surprised they didn’t show that
The way jailbreaking iPhones in the past taunted Apple to counter with software upgrades against it, iFixit teardowns now taunt them to make their products unfixable! They probably have an entire department in the basement of the spaceship dedicated to inventing new unbreachable adhesives.
My name is Jeffrey but hey apple got some extra money i mean damn look at that repair price
If you happen to come across a repair manual and figure out a better way to open it, would you revisit this tear-down?
My guess is mo
*no
First time here. Kelsea has a great clear teaching voice that really grabs ur attention
It's definitely meant to be torn apart for refurbishing, that's why all components held by their place with screews, but you have to break the sealing to get to it. I think it's made that way to exclude the possibility of 3rd-party repair.
Airplaying this to my HomePod. What a time to be alive.
I like this channel I never seen lady tearing down like a pro
Much better quality and much more useful than what's inside's teardown
This is how a tear down is suppose to be done
I want to see the tweeters! And a bit more of the woofer. This makes most of the sound quality.
I watched the C-Net one and this was a lot shorter and actually was able to show me what was inside like I wanted.
Never mentioned how it sounded like after putting it back together (or after attempting to)!
the first teardown of homepod cool
This stays at your home, at one spot, plugged. Why does it have to be glued shut?
This stays at your home, at one spot, plugged. Why do you need to open it? =)
Maybe it's for vibration. The sub seems large and powerful enough to make a big plastic thread turn loose all by itself. And even if it doesn't come off (it's still held in place) it might start to vibrate and make noise when playing stuff.
Because of the dust
So you can have no vibrations, clear sound etc
So people can't easily repair it and therefore be forced to pay the expensive repair bill
I would have liked to see the inside of one of the compression drivers at the bottom. Great video with a clear look at an unusual product.
really love your videos 😂😂😂 always tearing down stuffs.. 😂😂😂
Too be fair, I don't imagine you needing to repair this with the exception of maybe the power cord which is removable.
I never knew what the A8 chip looked like until now! Cool video
I'm actually really glad she called it a woofer unlike the other 90% that keep calling it a subwoofer 😤
Juan Carballo yeah, there can be a huge overlap in the relationship between the size and type of a speaker driver! For example, my main system uses four closed back 3" tweeters for treble only, two 10" woofers in sealed enclosures for the midbass/midrange, and eight 8" subwoofers in 4.4 cu ft of ported enclosure tuned to 30Hz which are properly filtered and only play true sub-bass from 80Hz down to 20Hz. Compare that to my backpack (rucsac) system which has a 3" extended range driver in a sealed enclosure for "midbass"/midrange AND treble, and two special 3.5" "RBM" subwoofers in 0.16 cu ft of ported enclosure tuned to 35Hz which play "sub-bass" from 120Hz down to 30Hz!
Thank you Apple for a whole new level of throw-away society. Together we can bring down this planet and all it's resources!
Didn't you guys cut the the fabric mesh in your teardown on your website? :P
I love homepod because it using same processor my iPhone 6
Pretty as hell.
Both you & the HomePod!
I love this iFixit videos
Nice to have a teardown with a great voice-over. Well done!
slightly confused… the sides of the homepod are hard plastic? so the sound comes out of just the top and the bottom?
Chris Murphy The tweeters fire toward a center cone that directs them down then out.
Yeah, the ads are deceiving. They make it look like the tweeters are openly pointing out the sides just under the mesh and that's obviously not the case.
Tweeters sound are directional and this thing has them muffled. Sonos is better.
You know the score would be low when the title says "this one gets destructive."
Very nice teardown but how did it go back did it sound the same afterwards???
CAn u pls do a tear down of the harman kardon studio 5 pls
PLEASE ID WATCH THAT
I've waited for that. thanks!
This was a fairly clean one. Well done!
Can't wait for the jailbreak on this thing. Should make homepod a lot more interesting.
What a mess ! But finnally I can see inside of it which doesn’t simple like the picture at the conference
Thank you for the video!!!
I love my HomePods.
This video was cool 😎
wow. Apple REALLY doesn't want us to get into that thing. Now what would be interesting is seeing it be put back together to the original device.
the single mic is for optimizing sound when placed anywhere in a room
Apple market themselves as a company that cares about the environment but increasingly they create extremely difficult to repair - and in this case impossible to repair 'as good as new' hardware. Disgusting - they are so rich and do not need to do this.
apple has been doing this since the the iphone 5s.. the iphone 4 and previose were built likje lego, with very little glue... but now the relish in the fact that the can make thing look reparable, then add glue to every thread possible.. the have been outsourcing their waste to external companies for years to make it seem like they dont produce much. . im my opinion, paying an external company to deal with you trash is the same as making the trash yourself . fun fact, when i was living n toronoto, i used to get brand new iphones that were either retunred or apple deemed them unfit to repair ( most of them were brand new) from a samller company that apple was paying to ÈrecycleÈ for them .. the recycling company either burned eveything in an incinerator, or allowed the employees to steal them .. it was great for me, i got free iphones all the time, but it really expsed me to the gross under belly of how these large tech companies make it seem like they are being eco freindly, while paying opther companies to take the heat for producing unnecessary waste
I have not once in my life heard of apple marketing themself as good for the environment.
I dislike apple, and I'm not saying you are wrong, but if they are marketing it as such they are doing a pretty bad job since I've only just heard about it from you.
Just because it is difficult/destructive to disassamble doesn't mean it can't be recycled
This Thinge is Build like a Tank, i dont think there are alot of ways to destroy this badboy. That is why it has so much adhecive, the subwoofer is super Powerfull. Was it build like your 20.- China speaker it would take about 1 week before breaking down
They also made it almost completely impossible to break in normal use
3:09 did I miss something or did you not even try to get the 7 tweeters around the bottom edge out? Or maybe it was too hard and you didn't include that in the video.
Apple actually use quality nippon chemi-con capacitors, usually these kind of speakers cheap out on that because it doesn't have to last more than a couple of years, sonos for example uses cheap capxon capacitors
I don’t think anyone would damage a HomePod is look so durable
Wait. Tiny ultrasonic cutters exist? I've seen oscillating multi-tools, but not this. WHAT WHAT WHAT. Mega cool.
I turned my back on apple years ago when it got to the point that a broken home button could only be repaired by apple at an obscene cost
Could you please write the part number on the back of the magnet or on the side of the number for me to find out what brand or company made the woofer?
Had an O-ring to seal the unit, but glued to prevent the ability to open for servicing....
Did it even work after reassembling it back together??
ahaa and how does it sound after reassembling? thought u would let us know.
I watching this vid on the same exact couch! Literally!
I prefer the video where the guy melts it with a torch ;)
Cool and interesting tear down of this device! So complex though!
Finally! I was just screeching for this and checking it now and again!
I just want the subwoofer with T/S parameters and build a awesome maybe tuned to 60hz box!
*_"Built like a tank"_* ?
Ain't seen too many plastic tanks.
I was waiting for this
I think those hex screws at 1:56 would be accessible via an angled hex wrench, without "removing" that part you cut off, starting at 1:36.
Sure, you and I wouldn't be able to know that without a guide, or getting lucky. However, if those hex screws really are accessible with a tiny angled hex wrench, I think it would be nice of you to mention that in the description, via captions, or something, so that this video becomes even more informative!
where is the speaker driver? where is the sound came from?
I've been waiting to see this video
heyyyyyy what about the power cable ???? come onnnnn !!!!
I think there is that much adhesive because I have a few and even though they don’t really vibrate the table they are on there is probably a lot of pressure on that sub if there is a high bass song ant max volume
I was able to open my HomePod without destroying the whole thing. instead of cutting that top ring open, you should heat and pry it from the INSIDE. there are a bunch of channels on top of the screws underneath where you can fit a long screwdriver or something and use it as a lever to pry it out, it's actually pretty easy to do, then the rest of the teardown follows normally as shown in the video
as for why my HomePod wasn't turning on I still have no idea
Very nice 👍🏼
Awesome video
Can you post specs of that SPEAKER? It looks like a Dayton Audio
They screwed two halves together and sealed it with adhesive when it was being made. It seems like at such a price hike, they will basically give you a new one. The new one will probably have recycled parts from other speakers that had defective pieces. Basically, all they need to do is put everything into two casings and screw them together.
Those caps better be high quality. Who's caps are they? Nichicon? Panasonic?
So technically we can build a ultimate home pod by keeping the logic board and put some audiophile grade tweeters and woofers on them right
Jesus christ, this ain't a speaker, this is an ARC reactor
Where were the tweeters?
The way she rolled back that speaker mesh, slow it down for better effect lol
You didn't take out the 8 individual speakers?
so each tweeter just have a usb-c sized opening?
Which portable Bluetooth speaker has better or same sound quality as this homepod.
This is the chastity belt of electronics.
More Like Kelsea Destroys!!!! Thank you for doing this! been wanting to see the inside of this thing :)
Why didn't you get the escrewdriver in betwen the fins of the sub
How do you think they'll remove the sub ?
Soooo. How did it sound afterwards?
Are those capacitors exposed? If yes, don't you have to be extreeemly carefull with not touching it?
Damn HomePod is tank
It seems to me the 7 tweeter horns exit the sound waves out the bottom, with the goal the sound will reflect off the table top. Interesting
I dont like apple, but you can´t deny the quality of the product
What kind of tool is that at 1:45 ?
So how did it work after puttinf ba k together?
Did it still work after this?
See they make it look like a speaker in the nice see through graphics but infact is a bunch of speakers in a plastic tube. Why the tweeters are facing down I don’t know.
Excelente vídeo 👍
What about the Google Home Max? I like watching these kind of videos, but it gets kind of boring when I know I will never buy the devices.
The wall plug is also removable
Now I know what the Mac mini would look like
try putting it into an oven for some time to help with the glue problem. I would try at around 60 degree Celsius to avoid damaging any electronic components
I literally watch this video bc of Kelsea 😍😍😍
This is tech pron! also many things can be said about apple, but damn their pcb's are sexy!
Hey iFixit, anybody knows where to get a replacement glas cover for the black homepod? Crashed my HomePods cover...