Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Sonos job opening signals entry into wireless home theater audio?

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Well now Sonos, what's this? A job opening for a Senior Product
Manager to help the company "re-invent home theater sound for the
digital age." More specifically, the position will be responsible for
leading "new product creation teams." Hard to say for sure, but
sophisticated wireless audio for home theaters certainly sounds like a
safe refuge now that Marantz, Denon, JBL, iHome, B&W, and
countless others will soon be competing with Sonos' whole-home
distributed audio solutions just as soon as Apple's new AirPlay
technology can gain traction. Besides, just picture a fully
synchronized wireless 7.1 channel surround speaker system that
requires just a few minutes to setup and works as robustly as Sonos'
other streaming audio gear. We imagine that it wouldn't take too many
tweaks to Sonos' existing software and hardware (you can already
convert two S5 all-in-one speakers into a more powerful stereo pair)
to pull it off. And anyone who's ever tried to cleanly wire a home
theater for multichannel sound will surely understand why the
prospects of going wireless have us more than a little intrigued.

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