Hi all,

I have a living room that's decorated 18th century, withthe exception of a
component sound system and 3 foot high speakers. The system is old and
giving out so I want to buy a new one.

I was thinking of a small system such that it could be hidden in a cabinet,
but wonder about the sound quality....

Then I saw these wireless systems that transmit the signal from the
component system to remote speakers. This might be a better solution, but
I wonder if the sound quality is seriously degraded.

Any opinion on this?

thanks

--
Saville

Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments:

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Restoration of my 82 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/SBOATrestore.htm

Steambending FAQ with photos:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/Steambend.htm

"gregg" wrote in message

Hi all,

I have a living room that's decorated 18th century, withthe exception
of a component sound system and 3 foot high speakers. The system is
old and giving out so I want to buy a new one.

I was thinking of a small system such that it could be hidden in a
cabinet, but wonder about the sound quality....

Then I saw these wireless systems that transmit the signal from the
component system to remote speakers. This might be a better
solution, but I wonder if the sound quality is seriously degraded.

Any opinion on this?

Any permanently-installed speaker that is worth its salt is going to require
AC power. If you have to run wires for power, you might as well run wires
for signal.

Arny Krueger" wrote
gregg" wrote




Hi all,

I have a living room that's decorated 18th century, withthe exception
of a component sound system and 3 foot high speakers. The system is
old and giving out so I want to buy a new one.

I was thinking of a small system such that it could be hidden in a
cabinet, but wonder about the sound quality....

Then I saw these wireless systems that transmit the signal from the
component system to remote speakers. This might be a better
solution, but I wonder if the sound quality is seriously degraded.

Any opinion on this?

Any permanently-installed speaker that is worth its salt is going to require AC
power. If you have to run wires for power, you might as well run wires for
signal.



Whats wrong with you?

Arny Krueger wrote:

"gregg" wrote in message

Hi all,

I have a living room that's decorated 18th century, withthe exception
of a component sound system and 3 foot high speakers. The system is
old and giving out so I want to buy a new one.

I was thinking of a small system such that it could be hidden in a
cabinet, but wonder about the sound quality....

Then I saw these wireless systems that transmit the signal from the
component system to remote speakers. This might be a better
solution, but I wonder if the sound quality is seriously degraded.

Any opinion on this?

Any permanently-installed speaker that is worth its salt is going to
require AC power. If you have to run wires for power, you might as well
run wires for signal.


Well I DON'T have to run wires for power. The power is in the walls
already. What I was thinking is that I could buy a component system and
place it in one room, and then hide the speakers inteh LR an duse the
wireless system.

So I ask again:

Do these wireless speaker systems degrade the sound quality a lot?

thanks

--
Saville

Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/backstaffhome.html

Restoration of my 82 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/SBOATrestore.htm

Steambending FAQ with photos:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/Steambend.htm

gregg said:

Do these wireless speaker systems degrade the sound quality a lot?

Compared to even average quality speakers, I'd say yes.
My preferred solution would be to still pull some wires for the audio
signal.

Another, costlier option would probably be to buy some powered pro-
speakers and build in the wireless circuit from some cheap wireless
types.

--
Sander de Waal
" SOA of a KT88? Sufficient. "

Sander deWaal wrote:

gregg said:

Do these wireless speaker systems degrade the sound quality a lot?

Compared to even average quality speakers, I'd say yes.
My preferred solution would be to still pull some wires for the audio
signal.

Another, costlier option would probably be to buy some powered pro-
speakers and build in the wireless circuit from some cheap wireless
types.


Sander,

Many thanks for the ideas. I like the powered speaker solution. But I
thought there were stand alone wireless systems - to which you hooked up
your powered speakers and that's what I was thinking of doing. I didn't
think I had to cannibalize a remote speaker unit. And it was these stand
alone transmitter/receiver systems I wondered about.

thanks



--
Saville

Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/backstaffhome.html

Restoration of my 82 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/SBOATrestore.htm

Steambending FAQ with photos:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/Steambend.htm