The HomePod 2 Teardown: Small Changes Make a Big Difference

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 Thanks as always to our friends at Creative Electron for the awesome X-rays! Need a bendy driver attachment, grab our Mako Driver Kit Check out Nic’s Fix YouTube Channel for more HomePod Repair 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 Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos! Follow us on Twitter: Check us out on Facebook: