While sitting in your living room, you can now easily play songs stored on any computer in the house, or tune in to one of thousands of internet radio stations.  Just connect the Logitech Duet base station to your stereo, and install some software on your PC and within minutes, you'll be expanding your audio horizons.

The connections on the base unit are simple, either analog through a left-right port, or digital.  The connection to your computer is accomplished either through the embedded 802.11G WiFi connection, or via a wired ethernet connect.  After plugging the unit in, you install Logitech's Squeezebox software on your computer, and you are up and running.

The holy grail of the MP3 revolution is to listen to your content wherever and whenever you want.  A lot of attention, however, has been spent on how to get content over to mobile devices, and much less on how to deliver it to the living room, which before the age of mobility was the tranquil space that we created for audio enjoyment.  In the living room, audiophiles and novices alike invested hundreds or sometimes thousands of dollars on audio amplifying equipment and speakers, to give us that concert experience at home.  And yet, today, because of the mobile music phenomenon, most music is heard through $10 earbuds.

The remote control for the Duet is fairly simple, basically a control dial to select your media and source, and some basic audio function buttons (fast forward, pause, rewind, volume).  Unlike most remotes, however, the Duet features a 2.4" backlight color LCD screen, which is used to menu through your music, and even full-color display album covers and song information (if you have this information stored with your music library).

The only buttons missing from the Duet is a programmable power and source button to turn on your amplifier and turn the source over to the Duet.  Therefore after a long hard day at work, when you flop yourself on the couch, just before closing your eyes to transport yourself elsewhere, you are going to have to use two remotes to get the concert going.