Wireless home surround systems?
dawnb asked:
Is there a good wireless surround system on the market? We are moving into a new home and don’t want to deal with all the wiring as the room will be large and no access under that room to rout the wiring.
Is there a good wireless surround system on the market? We are moving into a new home and don’t want to deal with all the wiring as the room will be large and no access under that room to rout the wiring.
June 23rd, 2010 at 5:14 am
Sony has good one RSHACK, had that one. We like the Bose way way better. It’s a lot of money But way worth the $$$$$$$$$$.
June 24th, 2010 at 7:17 am
There are no good sounding wireless surround sound systems out there yet.
I believe the other fellow responding about the Bose system is referring to the wireless RF remote that Bose includes with their systems. It works through doors and around corners and stuff. Uses radio frequencies instead of infra-red light, the latter of which requires a line of site to work.
When I moved my business to Texas a few years ago and discovered that pretty much every home built here in the last 35 years were constructed on concrete slabs, I relaized that retrofitting surround sound sytems had just gotten a LOT harder.
ONE GREAT SOLUTION I’ve been having excellent results with is the Polk Audio Surround Bar. You install it where you would normally put the center channel, and it has not only the left, center and right channel speakers in it, but it also has a unique thing Polk developed that has 4 additional speakers at the extreme left and right that psychoacoustically simulates a true surround sound experience!
AND IT REALLY WORKS!
Besides providing great sound anyway, the illusion that sound is coming from the right and left of your listening area is uncanny!
Its an elegant, not very expensive (considering the fact that all you have to add is a subwoofer) and very PRACTICAL solution to the retrofit wiring issue.
Good luck and let me know how it goes!
June 24th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Like what Rod said there really arent any good wireless systems out there, plus the ones that are out there arent completely wireless the fronts usually need to be wired to the reciever and the rears while they are wireless from the fronts still need to hook up to a reciever and small amp to power them.
A nother Great solution is the Yamaha ysp-1000 speaker system. It has over 40 speakers in it and you can adjust it for your room size. It will actually project the sound off the side and rear walls and you can pan the sound completely around the room. Plus it can do some minor video switching an added bonus.