Four years ago we did a teardown of Apple’s first smart speaker, the HomePod, and to say that teardown was excruciating would be an understatement. Well, today we have the Second Generation HomePod on the teardown table, we’ve got our ultrasonic cutter on standby just in case and we’re going to dig in and see just how much of a repairability nightmare it’s going to be.

Check out our teardown of the original HomePod
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Thanks as always to our friends at Creative Electron for the awesome X-rays!
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Timestamps
00:00 The HomePod 2nd Generation Teardown
00:03 The original HomePod was a nightmare to take apart
00:37 HomePod 2nd Generation X-Rays from Creative Electron
00:48 Getting the 2nd Generation HomePod open
01:12 Removing the 2nd Generation HomoePod’s top
01:20 The 2nd Generation HomePod’s logic board
01:31 The 2nd Generation HomePod’s woofer
01:45 The 2nd Generation Homepod’s amplifier and power supply boards
02:24 The 2nd Generation HomePod’s tweeters

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