Create a multi-room music system

Are you making use of digital music? If the only place you listen to music is on your smartphone, the portability that the digital revolution brought is largely wasted.

Since music went digital it's been possible to create whole-house jukeboxes, but they've too often been expensive and complicated. Step forward multi-room systems from Bose and Sonos, which finally put the smartphone at the centre.

The concept behind both systems is identical; why should digital music go to waste? With music now primarily digital and stored on computers and smartphones, it's totally flexible - so why not stream it to every room in your home? And how about having everything controlled by a jukebox-style app on a smartphone or tablet?

That's the thinking behind the Bose SoundTouch and Sonos multi-room music systems, both of which are built around modular collections of Wi-fi-connected speakers. Buy one product and you've got a Wi-fi speaker, but get two and you've got multi-room.

Sonos has a more modern look than the Bose SoundTouch. Although all products from both brands can be used on their own, both the Bose SoundTouch and Sonos speakers come in various guises.