"Wireless" speakers is a misnomer (a euphemism for a marketing department "lie"). They will have to have power cords strung to provide power. Once you have that, they are not "wireless". Once they have power cords, why not use speaker wires. You'll save a huge amount of money (wireless speakers have to have amplifiers inside them). You can afford to buy specialty wiring (flat cables, color-coordinated conduits,...) or what ever it takes to do a decent job and you'll be money ahead.
Originally Posted By Still_learning:
"Wireless" speakers is a misnomer (a euphemism for a marketing department "lie"). They will have to have power cords strung to provide power. Once you have that, they are not "wireless". Once they have power cords, why not use speaker wires. You'll save a huge amount of money (wireless speakers have to have amplifiers inside them). You can afford to buy specialty wiring (flat cables, color-coordinated conduits,...) or what ever it takes to do a decent job and you'll be money ahead.
I know they have power cords and I'm okay with that. I'm trying to avoid a wire from the stereo to behind the couch since that would involve either a wire in the middle of the floor or wiring up and around door frames. I'm okay with lots of messy wires in back of the couch.
Looking around it looks like we can put a man on the moon but we can't devolope a decent wireless receiver. Most of the reviews I read say they get messed up from a cordless phone or wireless routers. I'm an apartment dweller too so I imagine my nieghbors stuff would interfere too.
The one at Best Buy has many reviews that say it worked will for a week and then conked out. Remeber in the 80's when you'd play with your xmas presents and they'd break after a few days. I don't miss those days. I think I'll just poke a hole in the carpet and string them under and hope the landlord doesn't notice when I move out. (It'd be a pretty small hole.)
