Fill your home with holiday music
Whether or not you care for the sound of jingling bells and a rooftop echoing the click, click, click of reindeer hooves, there’s no escaping holiday music. Along with ornamented trees, candles, and nogged eggs, it’s parcel and part of December’s latter weeks. To join rather than beat the holiday spirit, you may wish to pipe such music throughout your home. Here are a few ways to do so.
Home for the holidays
If you live in a smallish apartment, whole-home audio is a cinch. Attach a couple of powered speakers to your computer, phone, music player, or tablet; press the Play button; and crank up the speakers until they rattle the mistletoe dangling in the farthest corner of your home.
If you find a cable untidy or need to extend the reach of your computer or mobile media player, a Bluetooth powered speaker is for you. Good up to a broadcast range of about 30 feet, gadget manufacturers of every stripe make Bluetooth speakers that you can broadcast to from an A2DP-compatible device (which includes the vast majority of today’s Android and iOS devices). Bluetooth speakers can be had for under $40 and are easily found in any mall or online emporium. One drawback, however, is that you’re limited to connecting your computer or mobile device to one set of speakers at a time.
If you’ve moved beyond such small quarters and find yourself needing to fill multiple rooms with music, your job is more involved—and more expensive—though not terribly complicated. If you’re a user of Apple products, the obvious choice is to explore Apple’s AirPlay technology.
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