Checking your recordings on Alexa, Google Home, & soon...Apple Home Pod

So I don't want ANY of these things in my home. Most definately not connected to the internet. Just gives me the creeps but that's just me.

I did get a Beats Pill and JBL's similar model for checking mixes long while back and also use them for watching movies cuz laptop speakers just suck.

Now it's clear I'm really gonna have to try these guys out as more and more people are gonna hear whatever I put out- my clients or my own music - on one or more of these devices.

The thing I'm constantly annoyed with is not having a L & R channel stereo field. Just kills so many recordings.

Also- I recently I posted a thing on Wave's new plugin for trippy panning and the McGurk Effect. I had to pop in headphones to watch the demo cuz I couldn't really get the picture with the JBL over bluetooth.

Ugh...Bluetooth...enough there for thread of it's own. SLUSSSHHHY. Digital Slushfest...Anyway...

Anyone else already doing this got any thoughts?

Anyone prefer one to the other for listening to music? Why for cuz how?

man, if you can't be bothered to play my music back on a rudimentary stereo setup I don't care how my music sounds to you.... I mix for dead center in stereo, period. If you wanna sit off to the side, lsiten in mono or arrange your speakers weirdly then the stereo field will be weird... fuck you, set the speakers up right and sit in teh center if you want the fulle ffect of everything i did. I can't mix for every set up and position. i can make sure that the mix is passable in mono. I can kake sure it will work on my phone's built in speakers with all their midangey pahsiness.... I can check earbuds and make sure its passable. But Ic an't make it sound GREAT on all these systems. I have to settle on one and I am always going tos ettle for properly positioned stereo, wide bandwidth, high ehadroom playback systems. I would say that decent all-in-pne 'bookshelf' devices fall into that category. I am not going to sit aorund and worry about people who wanna lsiten sitting sidways, 2 yards from a google home speaker. Should I check my mixes to see if they sound alright to people with eharing aids too? jesus... the fact of the amtter is that the people who PAY FOR MUSIC, have passable stereo playback setups to enjoy it on and the people who want it for free can get what they get!

disgruntled musician rant over

God I wish I had the luxury of not having to think about shit like this...

I've resisted until recently when I was checking the data on how people are "consuming" music & these lil' turd boxes are getting more & more penitration.

I really doubt my mixes will change much at all- it's just become clear if I'm charging for my services it'd be unprofessional to not at least check how things sound on these lil' turds...ugh.