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Sonos: The A/V receiver is dead

He adds, "We play in a market full of companies that haven't made meaningful changes to how they do sound in 20 years."

This Sonos vision certainly makes sense, as a vision. At the moment, home audio (and video) users do have to deal with multiple hardware sources: DVD players, game consoles, television or satellite or cable signals, and so on. Granted, more of the content is going to the Internet, to both remote cloud services like Spotify, Pandora, and Netflix, and to local network storage. But you can't yet run a full entertainment system without having some way of switching between physical signals in addition to your IP streams.

Cullen maintains that you still don't need a receiver. The modern television, he says, can do the job of source switching. And Sonos system can can take input from a TV's output, for when that's necessary.

OK, I said, so perhaps Sonos will get built into TVs? Because I also need to upgrade my TV. Again, Cullen said the company is sticking to speakers (and one expensive speakerless, ampless product for people who aren't ready to throw out their receivers), and that it won't do a software version for computer owners or TV vendors. The problem is sound quality control. Sonos systems are designed to be multi-zone, to play the same audio on different speakers around the house. Doing that so it sounds good requires exact timing of the audio output so the sound waves don't interfere with each other and muddle the sound. On non-Sonos hardware, the software can't do that reliably, and Sonos doesn't want to risk lowering quality by making Sonos work, but only technically, on other platforms.

Perhaps Sonos will make a soundbar product for TVs? Cullen said that is a possibility. (Although I don't think that's what Cullen meant when he said of the company, "The goal was always to be more horizontal.") I think a soundbar product could be a real breakout for Sonos.

The company was started in 2002 with the belief that "traditional A/V brands were vulnerable to the digital transition." Cullen says the founders studied Bose , which also started by making high-end products back in 1964. "We saw an opening, we thought there was room for a new Bose." Initially, Sonos sold $1,200 systems over the phone. If it's an indicator of how you can move a brand from the high-end to the mid market, Cullen notes that Bose is now making iPhone and iPod docks at prices similar to Sonos' offerings. But he says the dock market is not long for this world. Music is moving off of dedicated MP3 players (iPods) and onto phones. "People won't leave their iPhones in a dock.

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It had been a while since I had listened to my CD of Life’s Rich Pageant. So when I threw the new 25th anniversary remastered CD into my Bose Wave radio, I wasn’t sure how it compared to the old one.

I listened to the album A LOT when it first came out. How I even came to own it is actually kind of a funny story. I’ll cut to the chase. I wanted Robert Palmer’s Riptide for Christmas, but my younger brother bought me Life’s Rich Pageant instead, because it was better.  And what do you know, he was right!

Listening to this album again reminded me of how I listened to R.E.M. back in the day, on vinyl.  I really had no idea what any of the songs were about, and for the most part couldn’t understand what exactly Michael Stipe was singing.

A lot of phrases of the songs stuck in my head back then..like “this is where we walked, this is where we swam, take a picture here, take a souvenir.” “My sweet hyena…” “Run and turn into butter.

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