One of my mom’s gen 1 HomePods died, but I found a guy online who specializes in fixing them, replacing the faulty diodes with good ones that should permanently fix the issue, and replacing a few other prone to failure parts. It arrived back, and man I forgot how good they sound. Apple definitley overengineered these things. Gonna be sad giving it back to my mom, haha.
I have HomePod minis, which are nice, but not the same. And apparently gen 2 full HomePods don’t have faulty parts, but also don’t sound as good as gen 1