The misses asked for a portable music setup that could be transported around the house. I started out looking at Ipod solutions (no flaming please), but soon abandoned it as it (surprise, surprise) doesn't support upnp.
I have a NAS box with twonky and tried to hook up my N770 with the newest nokia media streamer - and it worked like a charm.

Now for the question:
Does anyone have any advice about portable speakers (battery powered) that:
1: sound good
2: makes the package (speakers + Nxxx) portable.
3: has bluetooth (as I'm thinking of buying a N800 off eBay).

TIA
Nick

Not sure why BT would be an advantage here; you get lower sound quality (HSP) or high CPU usage and general software difficulty (A2DP), more total power consumption, and the ability to pick up one end of the combo and forget the other, breaking the connection and causing general fun.

I don't know any specific models, unfortunately...

well, bluetooth was just to have the option + make it possible for others to easily play music from there gadgets...

Right now the "JBL on tour XT" is on top of my list (as the XTB with bluetooth is MIA). It has an USB port that can charge other units - but I've mailed them and asked whether USB power is enabled in battery mode.

Maybe the best option for you would be to upgrade to the N800. It has excellent built-in speakers, so you wouldn't need any portable bluetooth speakers.

The N800's speakers are good, for this sorta thing; they have as much bass as some laptop speakers.

OTOH, that still means they have ~zero bass. I regularly listen to mine over the speakers, but BT or wired speakers do have the potential to get both higher volumes and better LF response. I just don't care enough...

I've been playing with a few different setups.. was trying to find some sort of bluetooth setup to go from the living room to downstairs.. my advice would be to just abandon any hope of bluetooth.. it basically comes down to a finicky setup for more money than it's worth. I found 20 dollar logitech computer speakers and a drill solved my problem much better than I could ever hope.

I was streaming to my n800, as they have surprisingly decent speakers for the size. Arguably better than my dell and toshiba laptop speakers But I wanted better sound and portability...

make a long story short(er), I have two computers in my house, both running ubuntu, set up a pulseaudio multisync so that whatever I play on the computer upstairs plays downstairs, htpc runs spdif out on the stereo upstairs, computer speakers downstairs, and I had a usb fm transmitter I cracked apart and added a much longer antenna to it. So I now get sound everywhere in the house except the bedroom and garage, which the fm transmitter has covered. That tied with vnc viewer on the n800 to control the media player.. makes for a pretty killer setup.

Only catch is I wish I could figure out how to scale 1920x1080 down to whatever the tablets run on vnc..

thanks for the info guys - it actually turned out to be another setup the misses wanted.

So to hijack my own thread - chayzer - your setup is actually what I want.

Can you give me some more info about your pulseaudio multisync setup? I have a HTPC as my primary source (which runs XP + meedio), this is of course not gonna work with pulseaudio - but a dual setup could work...

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what I wouldn't do to get a wifi speaker setup....

Could you please make this "pulseaudio multisync" story longer and longer please, and your total setup too? If you already do the job, I would like to copy it rather than re-invent the wheel. TIA,

bun

My wife says she want's a whole house stereo but when I went to get something she said that wasn't what she wanted at all, so I returned a nice stero system. Even with box unopened I had to negotiate to not pay a restock fee. I'm curious what your wife decided on, as I have no Idea what my wife has in mind.

And I'll second ther request for Chayzer's details. That's something I'd like and could possibly satisfy the wife. Maybe a screenshot, For my wife the Graphic User Interface can't be more complicated than TiVo.

To the original issue, I was thinking the PSP should have good speakers, and should be able to be hacked to stream audio. Alternatively, there might be external PSP speakers with even better quality. Assuming they would fit the N800 without too much mess.

I'm actually thinking in "low tech" solutions atm.

As my HTPC is the central system, I'm thinking about getting an FM transmitter, and then use whatever radio setup I want - that being a normal stereo, n800+speakers, etc.

A decent "home" FM transmitter costs about 100 $ on ebay - so I just have to connect it to the HTPC - and everything should be honky dory...