Category Archives: products for multi-room audio

AirPlay by Apple enables iHome, others, to bring wireless audio home

By mtc | Published: September 1, 2010
I’ve written about AirTunes in the past. Since late 2004, I’ve played with Apple’s wireless audio technology as a feature of iTunes and the Airport Express. I never tried it in concert with Apple TV, but for a couple years, I enjoyed three separate zones of home audio using two AirPort Expresses and a Mac [...]
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New Insignia 450W 5.1-channel home theater with Rocketboost adds anchor to Best Buy’s wireless audio standard

By mtc | Published: September 1, 2010
There is now a centerpiece device for Best Buy’s Rocketboost wireless audio standard. This Insignia NS-R5101AHD-A is a pretty impressive home theater receiver with modern features such as: 3D pass-through 5.1 channel surround processing, Dolby, DTS, super plus happy technologies, yadda yadda yadda. Audyssey suite of dynamic EQ technologies 3 HDMI inputs 450 Watts of total [...]
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VIZIO’s High Definition Wireless Audio lineup

By mtc | Published: June 14, 2010
VIZIO is really stepping up their wireless audio product line. Readers of wirelessaudioblog will note that the VSB210WS a 2.1 soundbar from VIZIO has been on the market for over a year now, offering fairly punchy sound with the convenience of the a wireless subwoofer. The success of this audio solution has spawned a major [...]
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For device makers, AM2G’s special sauce is in AAL

By mtc | Published: December 21, 2009
Avnera announced AM2G today.  From the release: Avnera has announced the availability of the AvneraAudio Link™ (AAL) software protocol stack. AAL eliminates the low-level details typically required to implement a multipoint to multipoint network, significantly reducing the time to market. It also provides manufacturers with a way to establish interoperability between all AudioMagic 2G-enabled wireless [...]
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Best Buy released a marketing video showing how Rocketboost enabled products can help

By mtc | Published: November 21, 2009
A bit corporate and simplified, but you weren’t expecting tear-downs and spectrum plots now were you?  There are never too many ways to tell a good story… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
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In stores now, Rocketboost announcement makes the rounds on the ‘net.

By mtc | Published: October 23, 2009
The new line of RocketBoost-enabled products hits brick and mortar stores this week.  Best Buy issued their press release full of executive quotes and the usual light-on-details value props.  Crunchgear, Engadget, I4U, and others dropped their cursory mentions that, perhaps not surprisingly, didn’t offer much more detail. A few points worth clarifying for those totally [...]
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