Music streamer Sonos has a new accessory for its home digital music system – a controller for the iPad. This follows up the one they made for the iPhone 2 years ago.
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Price: Free
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Sonos has a new product, a wireless controller for your Sonos system that lets you control all your music in any room from anywhere. The full-color, 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen CR200 lets you control any of your Sonos controllers. You can play your CDs, music on your computer(s) or even Internet Radio.
Let’s say you decide to come downstairs and had music playing in your bedroom, you can use your controller to turn that off and play it in the kitchen instead. You can browse through albums and stations, perform searches with the on-screen keyboard or build playlists.
Perhaps one of the most forward-thinking features is the ability to determine what Sonos zone the CR200 is controlling, so you can listen to different music in different parts of the house.
More info from the manufacturer
Price: $349.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
The subject pretty much says it all – if you’ve got an iPhone and a Sonos music system, you can now download a free app from the iPhone App Store to remotely control it.
Oh, the app also works on an iPod Touch. While you’re at it, you can also upgrade to the latest Sonos firmware (2.7) which includes access to music service Last.fm, Internet Radio station site RadioTime, and Pandora.
Sonos is the first and only digital music system that lets you play all your digital music, all over your house—and control it all from the palm of your hand. Best of all, you don’t need a PC in every room, a music server or a wireless network. Just a Sonos ZonePlayer and speakers in the rooms of your choice and a Sonos Controller in hand to access all your digital music, no matter where it’s stored—on your PC, Mac or Network Attached Storage box.
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Do you have someone on your gifting list with particular taste in all things Geek? If so, the Geeks have your gifting playbook depending on your level of investment (how much money do you want to spend?). Below are some great gift ideas under $50, under $100, under $200 and over $200 but you can also check some geek-centric stores such as ThinkGeek, Hammacher Schlemmer and Sharper Image. Enjoy!
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Amazon is leading the pack with Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for bargain hunters including entire sections of the store on sale from Toys & Games to Electronics.
Here are a couple of Amazon’s most popular deals:
Breaking Bad Complete Series for $149.99 (50% off)
Seagate Backup Plus 5TB External for $139.88 (46% off)
Samsung 65” 1080p 240Hz 3D Smart LED for only $1497.99 (45% off)
$20-$50 Amazon Gift Card with Sonos components
LG G Watch for $149.99 (35% off)
Canon T5i with Kit Lens for $649 (24% off)
If you don’t have Amazon Prime, now is the perfect time to sign-up for a FREE 30 day trial to cover all of your holiday purchases.
The Netgear Digital EntertainerEVA700 (and EVA8000) are Netgear‘s entries into the networked multimedia device category, essentially bringing the content on your computer network into your traditional audio/video entertainment center. I had high hopes for the EVA700, but unfortunately it fell way short. Read on for the full review.
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Here is another network music player, the Olive | Musica. (No, I did not insert the vertial bar into its name.) The Musica not only streams music from your Mac/PC via a 802.11g wireless network hook up, but can store tons of MP3/WAV/AIFF/FLAC audio on its own internal 160GB hard drive (there’s also a model with a 250GB drive). Olive anticipated some folks not having a computer, but just wanting to get your CDs straight onto the Musica, so there is a CD drive built in – just stick in the CD and it is automatically ripped, tagged and added to the library. Guess what, the CD drive is also a burner, so you can burn your favorite tunes to a CD for your car, or wherever. You can can even hook up your iPod and get your tunes on there. The streaming works the other way too – you can stream music from your Musica to your Mac/PC. The Musica also hooks up with your stereo system and is definitely geared to folks who care about their audio quality; for example, the RCA jacks are gold-plated. Certainly sounds like a worthy competitor to the Sonos and Roku Soundbridge products.
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A “6′ 3″ guy who weighs no more than a buck-65 (wet out of the shower)” wrote a review on Kensington’s SX-2000 Speakers for iPod featuring NXT Technology over at LIVEdigitally. NXT Technology is known for their flat panel loudspeaker technology and the NXT technology is used by a plethora of vendors including Kensington, Logitech, Hitachi, Philips, Pioneer, Sonos, NEC and Toyota. Here’s an excerpt from their review:
Now slim size is a nice plus and all, but for me the main question was: “How does it sound?�? The answer is “amazing.�? The sound is rich both at high and low volumes and nice and steady throughout. It’s not a Cambridge Soundworks system, but for the price and size, it does everything we want. We’ve even started to crank up the tunes while we are in the other rooms and the sound carries well and with no notable distortion. Part of what impresses me about the Kensington unit is the NXT technology (used in the device).
Currently, the Geeks are testing out an offering by Logitech (look for the review later this week), and we’ll agree with Ron on the sound quality. Check out the entire review on LIVEdigitally’s site.
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Acoustic Research has entered the fray of home media streaming products, with their aptly named MediaBridge. The Digital MediaBridge receiver plugs into your home’s network (wired or wireless (802.11b/g)) and streams media from up to 3 computers to your home entertainment system. The MediaBridge is set to compete with the Philips Streamium and the Sonos Digital Music System. The receiver is UPnP compatible to ensure connectivity with a wide range of PCs and consumer electronic devices. The receiver connects to the TV or A/V receiver using standard interfaces and incorporates high-definition YPrPB component video, DVI with HDCP and S-Video outputs, as well as digital audio coax and digital optical audio connections.
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