Whole House Audio...The Apple Way

It started with wanting to listen to my iTunes library, which is on my iMac, while hanging out in the den, which lead to wanting to also listen in the bedroom...then I thought, why not the bathroom as well.

To tie it all together, I am using an Apple Airport Extreme (main base station), three Airport Expresses, a set of Harmon/Karmdon Soundsticks (iMac), a Bose 1-2-3 system (Den), a Bose Wave Radio (bedroom) and a JBL Onstage (bathroom).

The iMac is connected to the network by ethernet cable to the main base station, which serves the three Expresses wirelessly.

It is all quite silly, though not terribly expensive, to have music capable of playing in most rooms of my home.

Surely, someone understands.

It is kind of like the picture below from Apple's website:




This was all inspired while listening to the "HDTV and Home Theater Podcast" episode about their whole house set ups. You can listen as well, you may want to skip ahead to 27 minutes, 20 seconds in the timeline.