Category Archives: products for multi-room audio

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 audio [...]

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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…
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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 unfamiliar [...]

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Sonos S5 takes aim at the iPod speakerdock market

By mtc | Published: October 13, 2009

I’ll cut right to the chase.  Sonos gets wireless audio distribution.  They also get user experience.  Their products have appealed to many affluent gadget savvy consumers and they’ve made no apologies for being expensive, nor for requiring their customers to bring their own audio hardware – speakers, amplifiers, etc.  If the consumer accepts that, Sonos [...]

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Rocketboost. Engage.

By mtc | Published: October 7, 2009

Bestbuy.com has just posted the four newest Rocketfish SKUs. The noteworthy element here is that they are all Rocketboost-enabled devices. The underlying digital wireless technology is based on Avnera’s AM2G wireless audio solution, which has undergone a spiffing up via some API goodness added to their solution to enhance interoperability for device makers [...]

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Squeezebox gets an intravenous injection of shweeet!

By mtc | Published: September 3, 2009

Personally, I love the direction this is heading.  I have always been a secret fan of the Duet, and think that Logitech has shepherded their investment in Slim Devices brilliantly, now realizing the potential of the platform, and at reasonable (for this class of interactive networked device) USD199 and USD299 price-points. To my eye, the [...]

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