I want to install wall mounted speakers in my dining room. My stereo is in my family room which is about 25 feet away. Does anyone sell wireless speaker kits so that I can avoid running wire to the dining room speakers?
Ron
Freedom55"
Im sure google will find them, but you will never get the full fidelity with wireless if sound quality is your 1st concern with average priced equipment. Top quality wireless equipment in itself is very expensive.
"m Ransley" <
wireless speakers usually come in 900mghz or 2.4 GHz styles some will overlap with cordless phones or wireless internet.
I have a few pairs of wireless speaker rokon or some such brand. I purchased them on eBay for 40 bucks. They are ok for background fill music. the sound quality is similar to radio shacks small Mimius speakers the driver is 5-1/4" with a decent tweeter so the response is 80-20,000 at low listening levels. I set them on the patio or down by the pond when I'm entertaining.
another option is flat speaker wire, if you plan to paint the room soon. The wire goes on like masking tape and you paint over it.
Hi, Radio shack. Tony
They sell the RCA. I have some and they sound OK, not "audiophile OK" but OK. One problem is you have to turn them off when you turn the stereo off. Otherwise they will hum, crackle and pop searching for a signal.
You might want to take a look at Acoustic Research AR) 900 Mhz transmitter and their various speakers. While not fully audiophile quality they do suffice for MOST situations, especially if used for background or mood music.
You can also find a number of them on eBay. They do work quite well.
Good luck.
In alt.home.repair on 01 Feb 2005 18:11:54 GMT snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Greg) posted:
That's what I have. I'm sure they are not audiophile quality (But I don't have a good ear, I don't pay attention, and I listen mostly to news and talk radio, where I don't even need stereo.)
I bought two pair at some sort of discount store. One of the first pair and one of the second pair worked fine, so I re-paired them and took two back. The seller said he knew about the problem and gave me, no exchange needed, a 3rd transmitter (from a different brand). That works with all 4 speakers (and makes me think I should have tested the second original transmitter. I had assumed the problem was the 2 speakers.)
I intended the speakers for listening to web-radio**. I have the computer in my office/spare bedroom, and one speaker in my bathroom, one in my personal bedroom, one in the kitchen, and one in the basement. I plan to move one outside in the summer. I can go from one room to the other, hearing the same station everywhere (I don't even have the computer on cable, but often it works even with a 24K dial-up connection. OTOH sometimes it won't work with a 53K connection. Apparently it is more complicated than just connection speed.)
This also has the added advantage that when I'm expecting someone to Instant Message me, I can go downstairs and it beeps out of the remote speaker. Also when Buzme rings, I hear it from the remote speaker.
If I had it to do over, when I ran my coax to almost every room for the cable tv, and also phone lines to the bathrooms and attic and some other places, and burglar alarm wires -- I ran all those -- I would have also run speaker wires, TV audio and video cables, s-video wires (which didn't exist then), and I think there are now a couple other kinds of wires I don't even know about that I would run if I could do it over.
It's hard, especially going from the basement straight to the attic, to add more later. I started with one wire twice as long as needed, and used it to pull the others through. Now that wire is all in place and attached to something at the end. It was very hard to drill the hole through the 2nd floor within the "stack". I had to put in a partial attic floor, lie face down and use the 2 feet of my arm, the 6 foot drill bit (which was getting dull by now, and my attmepts to sharpen were not successful) and I still needed a one foot extension to reach the floor and start drilling. In this case the flexibility of the bit was not an advantage. Maybe I should have bought 6 more one foot extensions. They would have been stiff.
But it was well worth all the effort to do this.
And the flat paintable tape someone suggested would also be better than wireless.
**Weren't they supposed to sell dedicated web-radios by now or a year ago? I haven't seen any.If you have a one story house, you chould consider hard-wiring the speakers through the attic. When you're in the attic, if it has no or a movable floor, you can see the tops of your walls downstairs. That's what I did for speakers in my bedroom. (The major problem there was not wiring the speakers, which was easy, but it was that the stereo was next to the outside wall (The odds are this doesn't apply to you but I mention it in case:), and the roof was only 6 inches high at that point in the attic. I tried for hours to get it, drilled through the outside wall once (fortunately brown caulk exactly matches the color of my house (and hasn't shrunk or come loose from the half-inch hole in 15 years!) and I ended up drilling on purpose through the ceiling right by the wall and then going into the wall. I still have to cut a notch and then spackle so the wires can't be seen.)
The small problem of going from the attic to holesin the wall was that in one case (a phone jack) I needed a second person to fish out the wire while I was in the attic moving it. But usually I was able to look down the hole in the top plate of the wall, and see the light coming in the hole in the wall sheetrock.
Get an electronic studfinder. They are great!!! About 100 times as good as a pivoting magnet studfinder.
If you have a multi-story house and your dining room is on the first floor, they sell (at burglar alarm stores, and maybe now at Home Depot) 6-foot flexible drill bits. You cut a hole in the wall and insert the drill bit down to the floor and drill into the basement. (Well, that might be hard to do only a foot or so below the ceiling. The bit bends but still takes a foot or two to make a 90 degree turn. Also, there is probably a fire stop half-way down the wall that you'd have to go through. When I drilled down from wall switch boxes, I never bumped into a fire stop.
Meirman
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