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The receiver (top) and sender comprise RocketFish’s Wireless Rear Speaker Kit
If you don’t have a professional installer, or your media room just makes it difficult to wire up those surround speakers on the opposite end of the entertainment cabinet, here’s one highly affordable method that could solve your problems. The RocketFish Wireless Rear Speaker Kit, which incorporates wireless technology from Avnera Corp.
The folks at Avnera shipped us a unit to try out here in our office, where all the interference makes wireless transmission less than stellar in some areas. Set up was easy and the signal came through loud and clear, however.
Basically, all you have to do is hook up the AC powered receiver unit to your right and left surround speakers. Connect the sender unit to your amplifier or receiver, making sure the wires are terminated at the appropriate ends on both the receiver and in the speakers.
Fire up the receiver and sender units—you’ll see the blinking LED indicator—and voila, that’s pretty much it. The receiver features a volume control as well for your rear speakers. No more wires running under or stapled onto your carpet, or winding like snakes on your walls.
After a few minutes to set it up, we were enjoying the silky sounds of another editor’s Diana Krall disc (us having left Black Sabbath at home) in crisp fashion. And you only have to plunk down $99 for the RocketFish unit at your local Best Buy.
I was a little skeptical when I first purchased this unit, but now I’m very pleased. My surround speakers sound almost identical when having them connected directly to my receiver. My pioneer vsx84 was even able to still sonicly match them to the rest of my system using maccc. The only down side is, the receiver shuts off when ever there’s clipping. This could be a good thing for some. With the adjustments and levels that maccc sets they hardly ever clip anyway. This shouldn’t be a problem if you’re using this for surrounds. I also would like for it to be able to handle a little more power, but for 99.00 how can I complain.
I would like to hear comments from owners if wireless connection is clear. Up to what watts can the wireless transmitter drive?
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The sound quality is exceptional for a wireless transmission and the volume control on the wireless receiver is a plus. I had tried other wireless speaker setups in the past and they were very disapointing.
The biggest compliment that I can give is that the Rockfish setup is so seamless that you tend to forget that your rear speakers are wireless.
The only down side that I have encountered is that my jabra blue tooth headset loses connection to my razr phone due to the wireless speaker transmission but I consider that a small price to pay for 5.1 surround that actually works.