Good sound, but no wires

[kavkazi]

Hi, I moved into a new place, and looking for a good solution. I still have the Onkyo HT-S7700 from my old place, which I thought was great. I had the wires fished through the walls in the old house. But now in the new one I don't want to damage the walls, or run the wiring so it's visible. Is there an equivalent or better solution such as a high end sound bar, or wireless speakers? (Max budget $2000). Doesn't have to be a Home Theater in a Box, ok with custom solution. I'm ok plugging in the speakers to the electrical outlet, just don't want to run all the speaker wires. TIA.

 

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Hi, I moved into a new place, and looking for a good solution. I still have the Onkyo HT-S7700 from my old place, which I thought was great. I had the wires fished through the walls in the old house. But now in the new one I don't want to damage the walls, or run the wiring so it's visible. Is there an equivalent or better solution such as a high end sound bar, or wireless speakers? (Max budget $2000). Doesn't have to be a Home Theater in a Box, ok with custom solution. I'm ok plugging in the speakers to the electrical outlet, just don't want to run all the speaker wires. TIA.

What sources will you use? Look into Sonos- some of their speakers can be set for single channel, to work in a surround system. The sound bar is pretty good. It's not an inexpensive system, but it lets you place speakers near a wall outlet and the subwoofer is good, too.

 

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There are several sound bar based solutions where you can add optional wireless surround speakers. Not sure how good the quality is though.

You can also build your own solution in theory by using something similar to this:

http://www.amazon.com/Dayton-Audio-WS-12-Transmitter-Subwoofers/dp/B00A4V22G0

Which may work connected to the Surround Pre-outs to a power/integrated amplifier at the back of the room or use powered speakers. 25ms delay gets added by this system which could cause problems possibly. Not sure if AVR microphone speaker calibration would be able to adjust for this longer delay as 25ms is around 8.5 meters extra speaker delay. Others may know if this delay would cause an issue or not.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

You can also build your own solution in theory by using something similar to this:

http://www.amazon.com/Dayton-Audio-WS-12-Transmitter-Subwoofers/dp/B00A4V22G0

Which may work connected to the Surround Pre-outs to a power/integrated amplifier at the back of the room or use powered speakers. 25ms delay gets added by this system which could cause problems possibly. Not sure if AVR microphone speaker calibration would be able to adjust for this longer delay as 25ms is around 8.5 meters extra speaker delay. Others may know if this delay would cause an issue or not.

Not all terrible idea, but issue is Onkyo HTS receiver doesn't have 7.1 pre-outs

I'm Not particularly big fan of soundbars, but that 2k is a healthy budget to something good from Yamaha.
like this one for example:
http://www.audioholics.com/soundbar-and-satellite-speaker-reviews/yamaha-ysp-4300-sound-bar-video
or this interesting design:
http://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio-visual/digital-sound-projector/yrs-700__g/?mode=model

 

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Not all terrible idea, but issue is Onkyo HTS receiver doesn't have 7.1 pre-outs

Yeah good point... Would need a new AVR... Could reuse old receiver to power rear speakers but may be hard to find room in the back to locate it and you have to manually power it on every time you want to activate your rear sound field. Has powered zone2 option so if it was mounted at the back of the room you also may have the option to run speakers to an extra room from here as well.