Logitech Squeezebox Boom

Fill your rooms with musical streams

A weighty and beautifully built audio streamer based on the Squeezebox Duet, the Boom has the bonus of built-in speakers but the same feature-packed innards. Connect it your network with Wi-Fi or Ethernet and it's amazingly easy to stream your music -- it even integrates with your Last.fm account

Give us enough time and equipment and we’ll put a speaker on anything. Seriously, a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. Cars, televisions, wrist watches — just about every gadget is made better with extraneous sound. So, when we’d heard that Logitech was releasing a hybrid of the music-streaming Squeezebox Duet and a boom box, we were all ears. Logitech Squeezebox

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The Boom plays everything and sounds great, but it could be easier to use

Quick Version: The Logitech Squeezebox Boom is a free-standing network device that can be used to play your complete music library. The setup is surprisingly easy, even if you are connecting it to a wireless network that uses 128-bit encryption. When it comes time to enter your key, simply turn the wheel and click it