Wireless speaker systems
Posted in wireless speakers on Feb 26th, 2009
Wireless speaker systems
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wireless speaker system
More and more music lovers are transitioning from the regular conventional speakers to wireless speaker systems. Regular speaker system are still popular and there are people who invested a few money in conventional speaker boxes and these are still as good as ever But those in tune with music have began to see a limitation with regular speaker system. Among them is the unsightly wires that run from the music receiver or tuner to the speaker unit.A basic complaint against home sound system has been the wires that interconnect the speakers to the audio receiver, tuner, cd player , or stereo units. As more and more channels are added to modern home audio device the problem of connecting the speakers to the audio sources has exacerbated. Running cables through the house walls is messy and time consuming. Wires running over the carpet are a tripping hazard. Running wires along the ceiling or walls are just an eyesore. Advanced digital surround systems may have seven speakers and a subwoofer. That’s 7 cables that has to be run throughout your room, with at least four of the speakers expected to be no less than 10 foot away toward the center or rear of your listening room.
If you’ve many speakers then the cables can form a tangled mess behind the unit and when it comes time to untangle them all the work can become a major headache. Then there’s the risk of somebody tripping on the cables and hurting themselves not to mention that whenever there are little kids within the vicinity of the cables they can pull them out and interfere with the sound. In some cases, these wires have started fires in houses and apartments. Thus the strong case to transition to wireless speaker systems.
Wireless speakers are just normal loudspeakers in appearance but rather than use a transmitter cable from the tuner to the speaker unit, they rely on radio frequency waves in much the same way a radio or a cell phone works. It’s not uncommon to see the speakers, the tuner and a 3rd device whose sole purpose is to transmit the signal. This electronic device, called the transmitter, is connected to the tuner device via a wire. An amplifier is also utilized and this is to magnify the signal and boost its quality. The signal transmitter also has a wire running from it to the electrical outlet on the wall. The frequency range for wireless speaker systems is the same as that of wireless or cordless phones, about 900MHz. The sound is even able to travel through walls for a distance of up to 300 feet.
One advantage with wireless speaker systems is that the sound can actually be transmitted through walls. This means that the loudspeakers need not be in the same room as the tuner. For some, these wireless speaker systems are specially workable in the event that they require speakers in the bathroom or kitchen or even outdoors. Wireless speaker systems are also ideal in a zone that has small kids or animals in that they are able to be placed out of range where they can’t access them or interfere with the sound.
Wireless speaker systems are definitely going to be the way people listen to music in the future even though conventional speaker system with their wires are still used in a lot of homes. One downside of wireless speaker systems is that they’re limited in the distance where the frequency signal is able to reach. Wired speakers are able to function regardless of their distance from the tuner device as long as the wire is able to reach them.
A transmitter (sender) device is attached to the speaker connections on the audio source, and a receiving device is attached to, or included in the speakers to be positioned remotely. Most wireless speaker systems are offered as a package with the transmitter, receiver, and speakers themselves included for ease of use. Setting up wireless speaker systems is a pretty simple activity
Also, wireless speaker systems are subject to sound distortion because the signal is broadcast in the air much in the same way that a radio transmits. This means that if there are other wireless electronic equipment within the same vicinity the sound quality may suffer.
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