Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Wireless Speakers - A Reality?

Cables and wires around the home are nuisance, and the more electronic kit you have the more there will be. The average home cinema set up with the standard 5 speakers and subwoofer will have no less than 20 cables going to it. It's not so much the cables at the back of the AV Amp that cause the problems, these can be neatly stored using a cable ties and a multitude of cable management systems. It's more the speakers at the rear that require cables travelling around the perimeter of the room that cause the problems. They either need to be tacked to the wall, hidden in trunking, or go up in to the ceiling and then reappear where your speakers will live.

There are now though a number of systems that allow you to wirelesses attach your rear speakers to your amp. In most cases the back speakers are connected together with a wire, but nevertheless this does solve the problem of having wire trailing around the room. You may ask why the speakers can't be wireless all together? The speaker requires an amplified signal to play sound and this means that it needs power, there are battery powered speakers on the market but the truth is that these are hopelessly under-powered or there batteries need replacing frequently. When taking in to account the lifetime cost of the batteries you may well have been better of paying a professional to hide the cables in the first place.

If you already have your own rear speakers then there is no need to but a wireless home cinema kit. There are retro-fit kits available that will enable you to have wireless rear speakers using your existing ones.

So the reality is that the true wireless (put a speaker any where you want regardless of power sources) is still not really possible, to the true audiophile the sound quality will be greatly impaired. The technology is getting there and in a couple of years I believe it will be a possibility. In truth 'wireless' really mean no connection between front and rear speakers and to many people this will be sufficient.




This article on wireless surround sound provides further information. If you don't think wireless audio is for you, you may like to see the cable tidy page.

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