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Saturday
Jan082011

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air demos at CES. Bring on the AirPlay...

Nothing can be better for wireless audio user experience than Apple being successful with AirPlay. This means that every launch partner delivering great user experiences and value to consumers.

Great stuff.

via engadget

Saturday
Jan082011

Engadget: iHome iW2 and iW3 AirPlay wireless speakers hands-on sneak peek

iHome is busy making a line out of AirPlay. It's been a blast working on these.

Both systems are essentially identical internally, with two low-range drivers and two tweeters, but the iW2 is laid out horizontally, while the iW3 is a tower. Since they're designed to be cheaper fixed satellite speakers for around your house, they don't have internal batteries or the iW1's grab-and-go charger, but they do pick up Ethernet ports, and you can still use the new iHome Connect setup application. No word on price, but the iW1 is $300 and these are meant to be cheaper -- we'd guess $200 or so.

via engadget

Saturday
Jan082011

iHome iW1 AirPlay wireless speaker hands-on

 

Saturday
Jan082011

CES 2011: Onkyo Adopting Avnera-developed Rocketboost

All Onkyo receivers introduced in 2011 will connect via the company's proprietary U-port to an optional Rocketboost transceiver module to transmit audio to a remote Rocketboost receiver module, which will either be built into or plugged into planned Onkyo Zone 2 audio systems.

Onkyo's first Zone 2 system will be a compact one-piece unit with networking capability, built-in speakers, iPod/iPhone dock and optional Rocketboost card. The system will be the first of a growing line of Rocketboost-enabled Onkyo products, the company said.

via TWICE

Friday
Dec312010

New digs

The Wireless Audio Blog is now hosted by Squarespace. I will miss many features of the self-hosted Wordpress system I had before, but Squarespace seems to have their stuff together and keeps things low maintenance, which is always good.

I also hope this and the nifty iOS app means I will get back to posting more regularly, particularly as CES and AirPlay take center stage over the coming weeks.

Cheers!