Category Archives: products for multi-room audio

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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