I actually did blind testing with my wife. Neither one of us had a strong preference, so we returned them. At the time, we couldn't use the paired HomePods as t

I actually did blind testing with my wife. Neither one of us had a strong preference, so we returned them. At the time, we couldn't use the paired HomePods as the sound output for our computer (which is plugged to our TV), which meant that we would have also had to use an iPad or iPhone instead of our computer. That inconvenience (no remote control for an iOS device!) was a strike against the HomePods.