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Molly I know you don't like the Nexus Q but I'm going to talk about it anyways today I'm going to show you all the different wireless audio options you have your living room that you can control with your Android phone starting off with something really cheap something everyone's got you've got your Bluetooth speakers here this one's from Bose is the bose soundlink that one's going to be kind of pricey these are actually both kind of pricey this is the Jambox jawbone if you don't want to spend any money buying a dedicated bluetooth speaker for your living room you can cheap out you can just get a forty dollar bluetooth adapter this one's from Logitech just connect this up to the home theater or the home stare you already have and you're good to go your phone will just see that you've got a Bluetooth device you can send music to it great you're living the dream the dream of just entering your home and playing music and it's just being there it's magic Apple users are so used to that Android users should have that too now where the dream gives out is that you don't have great range with Bluetooth you've got maybe 30 or 40 feet if you've got any walls between it that's going to cut that down so if you up your music put your phone in your pocket you get too far out of range your musical poop out that's not fun so the better way to go is to use your Wi-Fi network Wi-Fi is going to give you the range over your entire house you might even have everything you need already you've got DLNA as an option it's kind of like airplay it's an open standard Samsung has it on their devices sony has it on there is a lot of different tvs and devices coming out with this wireless media sharing capability but it doesn't always work it's kind of frustrating to set up we even try to set it up here with this tablet and this samsung TV and it was a Mindbender to try to get it to work if you can get it to work use that option if you don't though $150 gets you the squeezebox radio here logitech makes this they also make a bunch of different squeeze boxes in different prices and configurations this one has a great Android app that you can use to get your Spotify music your pandora stations everything chewed up and you can control it walk in boot up the app get music going you can even use this app to turn the squeezebox radio on and off alright maybe a little too out but you can see you get actually some pretty good audio quality audit advice a device that's pretty small so that's good to have but it's not going to cover you in every room right unless you buy a couple of these and spread them throughout your house if you want to get something that's going to get you everywhere you can upgrade the sonos this is the sonos play three the solar systems are really meant to be expanded throughout your home and they make it really easy to do that you just kind of plug in a speaker hit the pairing button and then you've got a new speaker in a new corner of your house it also has a great app even better than the squeezebox app again it's going to plug into every service that you like it's got Spotify innovation Rhapsody Pandora I can plug into your local music collection and then you can just get music going with push of a button though Frank black so more Android integration then finally for you super hard core android fans the Nexus Q Google's glorified volume knob $300 gets you this you can connect it to your TV you can connect it up to your speakers I will say this about it it works really well with Android so you just queue up your Android your google music app hit the little triangle button on the right and you've got music playing boom and then use the giant volume control turn it up one other thing the Nexus cute gives you is a killer screensaver none of these other options are going to give you a screensaver on your TV while the music plays so if you really want something that's going to assist you in vegging out on the couch the Nexus Q might be worth the three hundred dollars it isn't for me but I've got a lot of options to choose from here hopefully you found something you like if you've got other how-to ideas you can email them to always on at cnet com you also find me on Twitter Molly what do you think