Wireless Questions

Discussion in 'Receivers and amplifiers' started by etowneric, Jul 10, 2004.

  1. etowneric

    etowneric Guest

    I am looking to cut a lot of my speaker wires if not all of them. I am running a receiver to all 5 speakers and everywhere i have looked has just offered wireless surround speakers.

    So my main question is where should I look to get a transmitter/receiver with 5 wireless plugs for my speakers. If anybody has a website or info with suggestions I would greatly appreciate because I have been looking everywhere and haven't found what I've been looking for.

    Thanks for the help.
     
  2. The_OGS

    The_OGS Active member

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    Actually you can setup a nice little system with 4 of these wireless speakers, the biggest ones you can locate, and it will sound sweet under one condition:
    Subwoofer and Centre channels well represented! Big speakers with good power and (thick) wires.
    Finding a good, shielded centre speaker is not overly difficult, but I dunno about a wireless one.
    Of course if cost is not a factor then you could get a transmitter setup. Keep in mind the amplified signal is not transmitted, rather the low-level signal is transmitted and amplified near (or inside) the speakers. So to use your existing speakers, they're still gonna have wires connected to them from their amplifier, but you won't have long wires running around or across your room.
    I have setup 5.1 with centre, sub, and four wireless speakers. The speakers were self-powered, and it sounded good/excellent/spectacular (depending on which subwoofer was employed).
    The main channel amplifiers in the reciever were not being used since the front L&R signals were taken from pre-out, so I fed the centre pre-out into the L&R amps (with a little splitter) and, yikes! 125 Watts x2 = a killer 250W centre channel.
    I think the reciever had only a 50W centre amp, so, there you go.
    Without a sub it doesn't work.
    (Well, it does - there's just no bass...)
    Regards
     
  3. etowneric

    etowneric Guest

    Yes I still would like to use the big speakers that I have now. So you think the best bet would to buy a transmitter and 4 inputs so that i could hook those up to my speakers. I think thats what you were trying to say, and if so where could i find that and around what price range would that be.
     
  4. The_OGS

    The_OGS Active member

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    Hi buddy,
    Don't know. If you were in Toronto I'd tell you to go to Long & McQuaid... ?
    They are a pro audio shop, electric guitars/amplifiers etc.
    Or you could checkout your local Home Theatre Superstore. They must have wireless rigs there (bound to be expensive, LoL)
    The key to the affordable wireless speakers is that they are self-amplified.
    L8R
     
  5. sdifox

    sdifox Regular member

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    Err, I don't think you can do what you want to do cheaply. Wireless transmission just gets the line level signal to whereever it need to be, you still need to power the speakers. This means getting at least 2 monoblocks to drive your surround speakers. What is your issue with your speaker cables? You can hide them in-wall if you don't like to see them.
     

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