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Hacking Together Whole Home Audio With Apple, Logitech, and Rogue Amoeba
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Logitech UE Air AirPlay-Enabled Speaker I love music. I love having music on all over the house. In the “old” days, you could tune a radio in each room to the same radio station, and experience whole home audio – with advertisements, and people talking over the beginnings and ends of songs. But there was a higher idea to strive for: rich people could have their whole houses wired with speakers, run off a central stereo amplifier. That was what luxury was all about! Fast forward to today. Music is in the process of democratization on a scale we couldn’t have imagined a couple decades ago. Today, we can carry around more music in our pockets that we could listen to in a year of continuous play. And we can make phone calls and shoot movies on the same devices that do it. We live, as they say, in the future. But whole home audio is still a bit of a luxury item. The best known example is the Sonos family of speakers and associated devices which allow you to connect a music source and stream