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Loading ...The Pitch: The Wireless Home Audio system utilizes Wireless-N technology to deliver a rich audio experience to any room. It streams different music to different rooms or the same song to every room or pre-determined “zone” in the house. It comes with integrated Internet services such as Rhapsody, AudioLounge, and RadioTime. An optional Docking Station for iPod enables your Apple iPod content to be played through any WHA device on the network.
Pros: It’s wireless, which means, halleujah, you can get audio anywhere without having to string coils and coils of speaker wire along the floor, over book shelves, and through the walls and attic. While other products do that, this is from Linksys by Cisco, the folks who built a reputation on making wireless easy and reliable. Forget the all-you-can-eat web music services, it works with iTunes and iPods (but only through an iPod dock).
Cons: That last pro is also a con. Yes, system will work with iTunes but only through an iPod and special dock. It won’t — ouch! — work directly with iTunes on a Mac. It’s expensive — $999 for the whole shebang, which consists of three components, each with more sophisticated capabilities as you ascend the line. You can buy each component separately, but even the least expensive of the three goes for $299. That’s as much as you’d spend for really great speakers, and, while wireless is great, you have to wonder whether sound itself can compare to wired speakers in that price range.
Recommendation: Just as wireless has become way to go for home Internet access so will wireless become the preferred solution to piping tunes around the house, too. For that reason, and that reason only, the Linksys Wireless Home Audio system deserves further consideration.
