Wireless Surround Sound Speakers
A common solution for wireless surround sound speakers is to purchase a transmitter/receiver combination. This will alleviate the need to run wires to the rear speakers of you surround sound system and can use your current speakers. The transmitter is plugged into the source and transmits a wireless signals to the receiver. The receiver will then contain an amplifier and can be plugged into your rear speakers. One thing to note here is that you are not achieving a completely wireless solution. You are simply removing the wires that run to your back speakers. Additionally, the units will require power to be plugged in and the back receiver will need to be wired to your back speakers. This is however, a lot less intrusive than wires running the length of the room to power the rear speakers.
The kenwood receiver comes with a 50W by 2 channel amplifier and operates with an RF signal. It has an operating range of 100 feet and a built in noise reduction to keep the system quite when there is no signal present.
The JBL receiver contains a 50W amplifier and has a range of 70 feet. An equalizer is included with the receiver with settings for a number of common speaker models.
One final issue with wireless speaker systems is that of interference from other technology that may affect the sound or provide a degree of static. Both solutions allow the selection between 4 channels so that if a given channel is experiencing interference, you can simply change the channel to find one that is clean.
We have collated here a number of the features and summaries of various reviews of these two modes. We encourage you to take a look to help educate yourself for a potential purchase.
See Details of the JBL WEM-1 50-Watt Wireless Amplifier and Expansion Module
