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Look out, SonosBose wants to be the new king of connected audio.

With the release of its new wireless speaker, the SoundTouch 10, Bose is upgrading its multi-room listening experience. The new speaker brings with it a software update to the entire SoundTouch line (including the larger SoundTouch 20 and 30 models) which allows the devices to talk to each other over Wi-Fi.

Now, if you’re streaming to a single speaker via Bluetooth, that speaker can then mirror that stream to any and all the other SoundTouch speakers in your house. It’s done over dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi (it used to be single-band), and you can manage which speaker is playing what via the app. Read more...