As part of its introduction of the formation Suite line of wireless audio products, Bowers and Wilkins unveiled the Formation Duo wireless speaker system. This is a stereo pair of high-end Bowers and Wilkins speakers that have built-in amplification and high-res wireless capability built on the...

Goal: Send audio wirelessly from back den to front living room from a Pioneer VSX-1023-K receiver. This would need to go through walls and about 30 ft away. What my interweb research has told me: Use wireless 2.4ghz band Outlaw OAW4 https://www.outlawaudio.com/products/OAW4.html may be a...

It's the day before the show floor opens here at CEDIA 2018 in San Diego. The main show floor is closed to the press, however Sonos was keeping busy at its off-site "hideout" where the company gave demos featuring its flexible new Sonos Amp ($599) amplifier. The brilliance of the Sonos amp...

The new Sonos Amp can power four wired speakers and accept signals from HDMI and analog-audio sources, integrating them all into the Sonos wireless whole-home audio ecosystem. Today, Sonos unveils the newest member of its whole-home audio system: the Sonos Amp. It's a home-audio hub that powers...

Riva is a company that manufactures wireless speaker products offering multi-room playback and now supports the full Alexa voice suite, including the tens of thousands of skills Amazon's virtual assistant possesses. At IFA 2018 it unveiled new wireless smart speakers. Riva says it is the first...

Hello again! I wanted to get some insight and opinions on an upcoming conundrum I'm going to be having. I have a BenQ HT2050 right now, and a Vizio soundbar. I run my XBOX One S and my PS4 Pro on my projector, and I have currently run Optic Audio out of each, run through a splitter, to the...

Apple's HomePod ($349) is a new, wireless speaker from the tech giant that disrupted the entire music industry with its iPod music player. HomePod offers 360-degree sound and comes equipped with a microphone array that allows users to interact with Siri, Apple's digital assistant. It also marks...

Today Bluesound and DALI Loudspeakers jointly announced a worldwide partnership whereby DALI will utilize the BluOS high-resolution, multi-room audio platform as part of its forthcoming wireless speaker system. The seemingly simple announcement actually contain several pieces of significant...

Sonos deserves credit for creating the multi-room, networked lifestyle-audio category. Its innovative approach to sound prioritizes network stability and playback reliability above all other factors. This ethos led to enormous success for the company among consumers looking for attractive, easy...

Today Denon took the wraps off a pair of new HEOS wireless audio products. The HEOS Bar ($900) is a 3.0 soundbar that supports 5.1 surround while the HEOS Subwoofer ($600) offers a wireless option for adding deep bass to your compatible system. First and foremost, these are HEOS devices, so...

Good day, I wasn't really sure where to start with this so I came here. My office wants to set up like 3 zones of audio wirelessly. We can't use sonos because those devices cannot access the network. I thought a Multizone Controller and Amplifier would work, but I'm not sure how I would go...

Amazon's world-domination is nearly complete, and in the waning days of this pre-artificial intelligence era, humans of the planet Earth can rejoice in the upcoming utopian period where they will have near-unlimited access to music anywhere, anytime. In other words, DTS Flay-Fi is adding the...

Networked multiroom audio is all the rage these days, so it is perhaps unsurprising that Klipsch is joining the party and debuting its Klipsch Stream line of products that support DTS Play-Fi and compete with Sonos, Bluesound, MusicCast, Google Cast, HEOS, plus any other wireless lifestyle audio...

Wireless speakers with multi-room streaming capabilities are part of a rapidly expanding category of lifestyle audio. To the forest of available options, you can now add Vizio's Crave 360 and Crave Pro SmartCast speakers, which leverage the Google Cast wireless ecosystem. These new speakers...

My wife and I are currently deciding on a house to buy, and we've started to head toward new construction. We just got the wiring options list for a design we like and if I do what I want (2.1 audio panels in all 5 bedrooms, master bath, kitchen, and play room. 4.1 for the patio and living...

I am looking to buy a digital piano which has unbalanced analog stereo audio output, and I need to get the signal to an a/v receiver in the closet. I am willing to run cables in the wall, or go wireless. I want as little signal degradation as possible. I have considered running metal conduit...

Hi there I have a Neuhaus T-2 tube amp powering two Mordaunt-Short bookshelf speakers (Mezzo 2) using an Airport express to feed it my iTunes and Spotify music via AirPlay. I now want to replace the amplifier by a tube amp with integrated AirPlay connectivity over Wi-Fi. Any suggestion for a...

I recently purchased a pair of M7/WAM750 speakers from Samsung. I was advised to also purchase a WAM250 hub to make use of multi-room audio (2 different sources for 2 different speakers). However, after installing the speakers and pairing them with the smartphone app, i was instantly able to...

Google's foray into the world of wireless audio took a giant leap forward with the release of the latest update to the Chromecast Audio ($35) audio streamer. The automatic software update went live on December 10, and it enables two key features: Support for hi-res audio, and device grouping...

Hi, I bought a home which has ceiling speakers (don't know the brand and if the speakers are 4 ohms/8ohms) in the first floor living room. The wires run thru the media room in the second floor. The media room has bose tiny surround speakers already built-in. I have Pioneer 1021K receiver ...