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    Acoustic Research Makes Any Sound System Wireless

    By Sean Captain Posted on 11.11.2008 3 Comments

    We loved Acoustic Research's original crystal-clear wireless home theater system, the WHT-6024, enough to give it a Best of What's New award in 2007. (To see this year's winners, click here.) Sadly, the WHT-6024 was a short-lived product. But AR has a new kit called the ARW51 that includes the original system's best part -- a 2.4-Ghz transmitter-and-receiver system that takes the place of speaker wire.

    11.12.2008 at 10:27am - Comment by Zarcov

    Jeez Louise! for years and years audiophiles have been told we need Monster Cables or gold plated silver speaker cables (yes I had a pair of $3000 speaker cables) now we're being told to dump the cables and go wireless? I've tried a number of wireless systems and found none to be acceptable, never mind excellent. There's just too much spurious radiation in the air, however I will say that a 2.4 Ghz system is a definite improvement on the old 900 Mhz boxes, although I prefer infrared as the proper medium, limited pretty much to line-of-site. Now, regarding the above statements; manufacturer's never show AC transformers or anything other than the actual unit itself in any advertising media I've ever seen, even the front of box the units come in do not show anything but the actual unit itself, this is done so as not to confuse anyone and to give the appearance of a really sleek product. Got it? I seriously doubt big time that those amplifiers would be battery powered, that would require more apparatus for charging and re-charging the amps. However, since AR is using a Class D 'switching' amplifier, which, for all intensive purposes is more efficient than other amps, it is conceivable, albeit improbable regarding battery power. Anyway, there you have it: my opinion. Until I've had a chance to actually try and hear these suckers in a real world application I'll reserve passing judgment at this time, but of course reserve the right to amend and wiggle my way out of preconceived notions re: this product.



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