Secondary (rear) speakers

[JohnnyGee]

I have a Yamaha RX-V685 receiver, and I have a couple of questions. (If I've posted this message to the wrong forum within audioholics, I hope someone will let me know.)

The problem is the pair of speaker wires (although I've used zip ties so it's effectively only one wire) that run across my living room floor, which I trip over or get tangled in way too often. Needless to say I'd like to eradicate that pair of wires, and it occurred to me that maybe I can replace the old, wired speakers that I currently have with a pair that duplicate the effect of rear speakers without wires. With that said, here are my two questions.

Will the receiver I own send information to the rear speakers, presumably through Bluetooth, without a wire?

The second question assumes the answer to the first question is yes. If it is no then stop reading. Which speakers are best to receive information from the receiver? The speakers that are there now are high quality speakers but, as I say, they are wired. I don't need high-quality speakers for the rear, but I do want them to work, with respect to getting information from the receiver to them and that they sound decent.

Any advice y'all have would be appreciated. URLs to the appropriate speakers, assuming my receiver will send information wirelessly to the rear speakers, will be especially appreciated.

--JohnnyGee

 

[BMXTRIX]

The answer is that you can't use Bluetooth for sending audio to stuff. Bluetooth was designed as a low-resolution audio only format to begin with. It's gotten a lot better, but it is still somewhat delayed. This means that your surround speakers wouldn't get audio in sync with your other speakers, which messes it all up.

So, you can't get there from here. You would obviously still need new surround speakers or an amp designed to power them. There are some wireless surround packages out there, but you still would need to have an AV receiver which has audio preouts for the surround speakers, which your Yamaha does not have.

The obvious solution is to spend a weekend on it and run your wiring through the walls, patch, and paint and you will never trip over a wire again.

 

[Eppie]

If you're in an apartment and can't run wire through the walls, you can use rubber cable covers on the floor:

or get cable covers / raceways that can be adhered to a wall with two-sided tape;