Forget CDs: Distributed music is next - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
Forget everything you know about home audio. It’s all about to change. First there were vinyl records, turntable and needles. Then reel-to-reel, cassette and 8-track tapes. Finally, in the 80’s, CDs became the next “big” thing. Now, it’s compressed music files and portable players that are all the rage.
But iPods and the like are very personal devices. For the most part, they’re designed for one person to listen at a time using headphones. What about a system that would allow you to distribute, control and listen to those same computerized music files throughout your home?
That’s why the engineers at Slim Devices devised a pair of network music devices. They call one Squeezebox and its bigger, more expensive brother, Transporter.
