| Rocketfish™ Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit June 5, 2007 | Permalink | TrackBacks |
If you have surround sound and you are not fortunate enough to have your house professionally wired, you will appreciate this product. Before the advent of wireless technology, there have been less than stellar options for running and hiding rear speaker cables. Fortunately Rocketfish™ has created a Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit to aid in riding unsightly speaker wires.
The wireless rear speaker kit transmits CD quality audio through a 2.4 MHz wireless signal that has a range of up to a hundred feet. The entire kit comes with a transponder, receiver, receiver stand, two strands of two feet speaker cables, and an instruction manual. The transponder uses spring terminals that accept all bare wire connections.
The installation of the wireless speaker kit was fairly simple. The transponder is fairly small and easy to conceal. I started out by connecting the supplied audio cables from the transponder to the back of my amplifier. Then I connected my rear speakers to the wireless receiver with some audio cable that I already had. The wireless receiver comes with a mounting stand which makes it easy to place on a desk, night stand, or bookshelf. The receiver also has mounting holes on the back that will allow you to mount it flush on the wall. Next I plugged in both the transponder and receiver with the supplied AC adapters and powered them on. The transponder and receiver synched almost instantly which was nice because I am not big on user manuals!
To sum it up, the Rocketfish™ Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit is a good buy if you want to hide those pesky rear speaker wires. The product specs say that the audio is transmitted at CD quality. To be honest I could not tell a difference between my wired setup versus the wireless setup. The only problem I experienced was soft feedback noises in the rear speakers when the wireless receiver was shut off. It would also be nice to have some sort of auto shut off feature; however, turning off the wireless receiver by hand is not a big deal. If you have an amplifier that does generate higher levels of output, there may be some conversion loss. Overall for the $99.99 price tag, I think this product is a fair deal.
