Monster streamcast module movie#
Monster streamcast module android#
Monster streamcast module tv#

Electronics company Monster has a $99 StreamCast module that plugs into its Clarity HD speakers ($749.95 for a pair) and the Beats By Dr.

Monster streamcast module movie#

A $699 subwoofer adds extra bass and effects for movie lovers.įor now, Sonos has the best multiroom option available, but other companies are aiming at the market.

Monster streamcast module tv#

It doubles as a top-notch TV speaker –- it has three tweeters and six mid-woofers built-in - that connects to your wireless sound system. The company recently added a TV sound bar speaker, the $699 Playbar, into the mix. It also controls volume and distribution of sound.

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(A $49 Bridge product connects to your router.) A free app on your Apple iOS or Android smartphone or tablet gives you control of your music library and music services such as MOG, Pandora and Spotify. Sonos' line of products includes two sizes of amplified speakers - the $399 Play:5 and the smaller $299 Play:3, which can be linked wirelessly in your home. 'That's what got us passionate for this area.' But digital music and home playback 'were not connected in the home anymore,' he says. 'If you took a step back, there were more people listening to music than ever before,' MacFarlane says. Retrospectively, the home music digital dilemma should have been easy to foresee. It took the company five years to sell its first million players, but it has sold more than a million more in 2012 and the first part of 2013. More than 2 million rooms have been outfitted with a Sonos system. Sales are on the rise for the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company, founded in 2002. Maybe on a rare occasion once in their life they are building a house or remodeling one,' says John MacFarlane, CEO of Sonos, which makes wireless music systems that can be expanded throughout the house. In most cases, however, 'You can't ask people to run wires through their walls. About 27% of residential remodeling projects included a multiroom audio system, according to a recent Consumer Electronics Association builders survey.

The old-fashioned way to get music circulating in the home - installation - is still popular. The need to spread the reach of digital music libraries to multiple rooms in the home 'is something that is still building.' 'Mobile is really fueling a lot of that growth,' says NPD analyst Ben Arnold. At the same time, sales of home audio components are expected to rise slightly, from about $1.3 billion in 2011 to $1.5 billion in 2015, the Consumer Electronics Association estimates.Īmong the hot products are wireless speakers, which rose 175% from 2011 to 2012, amounting to sales of about $383 million, according to The NPD Group. Digital music sales surpassed physical sales of CDs in 2011.