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Making Atmos Easy

THE MOMENT I first heard a pair of the new Apple HomePod speakers play spatial audio, I could not get one thought out of my mind: This is going to be more than good enough for 90+ percent of listeners. Of course there will still be a place in this world for large, powerful, multi-speaker systems. But Apple has clearly cracked the code in terms of delivering an all-encompassing, genuinely immersive listening experience from a pair of incredibly smart and capable compact wireless speakers.

Apple sent me a pair of Home-Pods to review. While one single HomePod does a lot and makes a great lifestyle smart speaker, pairing up two HomePods and using them with an Apple TV 4K opens up a whole new world of spatial audio possibilities for music, movies, TV shows, and video games.

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With a pair of HomePods, you can enjoy true stereo sound, providing clear and

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