Looking at wireless options for surrounds

[styrbjorn]

Thought I'd see if anyone's had any positive experience with wireless surrounds. My living room is NOT very amenable to running wires for rear speakers, but I'd like to improve my HT listening experience (currently running 3.1 with B&W 804s fronts, B&W HTM61 Center, and eD A5-350 sub).

Wondering if anyone has experienced good results with a dedicated wireless speaker solution (e.g. Aperion Zona) or a generic wireless amp (e.g. Soundcast SCS100 Surroundcast) powering conventional surrounds (probably B&W bookshelves TBD).

I know wireless used to have a terrible reputation but it's been a few years and it seems like the technology may have matured... Any thoughts?

 

[j_garcia]

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/loudspeakers/85212-wireless-speakers.html

Pretty much most of the offerings are about the same price and are more or less the same thing in terms of the adapters. The advantage with one of them might simply be if you get speakers from say Aperion, it will all come in one shipment.

 

[einteractive]

Wireless speakers are slowly pushing wired speakers off the market. In fact, most of the people have now changed their old speakers by purchasing new wireless speakers. The benefit of wireless is the convenience and a quick installation; no cable to bury, and moving wireless speakers is far easier.