Wireless Home cinema sound system package

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Good afternoon all

I have recently moved in a new house with my finace and looking to get a sound system for the front room. The problem is that my finace has a thing about wires and wants wireless cinema sound system. I have been looking over the last few weeks and dont seem to have much available. Can anyone of you enlighten me on any details or developments on the wireless system.

Many Thank You's

David

 

[Cofnchtr]

Hi,

If you've recently moved, will you be re-decorating soon? Use the decorating opportunity to hide the cables behind skirting, under carpet or chased into the walls?

KEF has some wireless speaker systems in their range but I haven't heard them so cannot comment on quality.

You could consider a soundbar which offers pseudo-surround sound from one set of speakers at the front. These are intended to sit under a TV but may have limited inputs so this option may depend on connectivity of your equipment.

Cheers,

Cofnchtr.

 

[professorhat]

Most wireless systems only enable wireless rear speakers so you don't need wires going from the front to the rear of the room i.e. the front speakers connect to the system with a wire, but the rears don't. However, they usually will consist of a rear unit which the rear speakers plug into via speaker wire (like some compatible Sony and Pansonic all-in-one units), or each speaker will have its own wireless unit (like the KEF Wireless system), but this will require power, which of course needs a wire. So you're never going to find anything truly wireless I'm afraid.

 

[Frank Harvey]

The problem is that wireless speakers aren't fully wireless. Let's take the rear speakers. They'll be active, so at least one of them has to plug into the mains, which means there will be a mains cable running between them. If not, the other one will need to plug into the mains too. Then there's the audio signal. If one is a receiver, it needs to get the signal to the other rear speaker, so will either be another cable, or use a thicker cable between the two rears to deal with audio and mains. Both might have receivers built in so there would be no need to have the extra cable for audio between them, but then with both speakers having built in receivers will make them more expensive.

You're then limited (possibly) by the quality of amplification inside these speakers.

Honestly, it's far easier to just run a small cable round the room and hide it.