HomeView's Wall Model: Pay More, Get Less Speaker

Apple offers two versions of the HomeView, 1 that tin beryllium mounted connected the partition and 1 that's a standalone exemplary with a talker base. The wall-mounted mentation and the talker mentation are some priced astatine $299, with nary discount for the base-free model.


Wall mounting is the much costly enactment due to the fact that astir buyers volition request hardware that's sold separately and is presently priced starting astatine $60. There are 3 options for mounting the HomeView connected the wall.

• Power Mount USB-C Wall Connector ($59.95) - The USB-C equine is from Schneider Home, and Apple says it is simply a self-install mount. It uses a modular USB-C cablegram that goes to a powerfulness adapter, which the idiosyncratic besides needs to supply. It requires a 20W oregon higher powerfulness adapter.


• Power Mount AC Wired ($79.95) - The AC Wired equine uses in-wall powerfulness truthful there's nary disposable cable. Apple recommends having it installed by a licensed electrician and is partnering with ADT to connection installation services.


• Power Mount PoE Wired ($129.95) - The Power implicit Ethernet hardwired equine is not disposable close now. Apple says to cheque backmost aboriginal for availability. It volition necessitate a location with PoE wiring.


• No mount - There is an enactment to bargain the wall-mounted mentation with nary further hardware. Presumably, accessory companies volition yet connection mounting solutions, but Apple has the lone equine enactment close now.

In summation to being much expensive, the wall-mounted HomeView comes successful much constricted colour options. It tin lone beryllium purchased successful metallic oregon abstraction gray, portion the talker mentation besides comes successful starlight and roseate pink.

Both HomeView models person speakers with "two customized full-range drivers" successful the display, and the wall-mounted mentation uses computational audio tuned for on-wall placement. The exemplary with a talker basal besides has a down-firing woofer and 2 force-canceling passive radiators that are not disposable successful the wall-mounted version.

We'll request to hold for reviews to spot dependable comparisons connected the talker mentation and the wall-mounted version, but customers who opt for the wall-mounted mentation are going to beryllium paying much for little hardware.

The HomeView is disposable for pre-order present and volition motorboat connected November 13.
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