MoreThis Tech Could Make Google’s Future Gadgets Even SmarterVirtual Reality Put Me in the Skates of My Sports Hero Back in the day, listening to your favorite album usually meant playing it for the rest of the house as well, whether they liked it or not. But today’s music experience is decidedly more personal: Just pop in your earbuds and the rest of the world’s cacophony is drowned out by your favorite jams. Home audio company Sonos — which, make no bones about it, sells speakers — had a theory about this de-socialization of music.