| More and more music lovers are transitioning from | | | | has a cable running from it to the electrical outlet on |
| the regular conventional speakers to wireless | | | | the wall. The frequency range for wireless speakers |
| speakers. Regular speakers are still popular and there | | | | is the same as that of wireless or cordless phones, |
| are people who invested a lot of money in | | | | about 900MHz. The sound can even travel through |
| conventional speaker boxes and these are still as | | | | walls for a distance of up to 300 feet. |
| great as ever But those in tune with music have | | | | One advantage with wireless speakers is that the |
| began to see a limitation with regular speakers. One | | | | sound can actually be transmitted through walls. This |
| of them is the unsightly wires that run from the | | | | means that the speakers need not be in the same |
| music receiver or tuner to the speakers. If you have | | | | room as the tuner. For some, this is especially |
| a lot of speakers then the wires can form a tangled | | | | workable in the event that they want speakers in |
| mess behind the unit and when it comes time to | | | | the bathroom or kitchen or even outdoors. Wireless |
| untangle them the whole exercise can become a | | | | speakers are also ideal in an zone that has small |
| major headache. Then there is the risk of someone | | | | children or animals in that they can be placed out of |
| tripping on the wires and hurting themselves not to | | | | range where they cannot access them or interfere |
| mention that if there are little children within the | | | | with the sound. |
| vicinity of the wires they can pull them out and | | | | Wireless speakers are definitely going to be the way |
| interfere with the sound. In some cases, these cables | | | | people listen to music in the future even though |
| have started fires in houses and apartments. Thus | | | | conventional speakers with their wires are still in use |
| the strong case to transition to wireless speakers. | | | | in a lot of homes. One downside of wireless speakers |
| Wireless speakers are just normal speakers in | | | | is that they are limited in the distance where the |
| appearance but rather than use a transmitter cable | | | | frequency signal can reach. Wired speakers can |
| from the tuner to the speakers, they rely on radio | | | | function regardless of their distance from the tuner |
| frequency waves in much the same way a radio or a | | | | as long as the cable can reach them. Also, wireless |
| cell phone works. It is not uncommon to see the | | | | speakers are subject to sound distortion because the |
| speakers, the tuner and a third device whose sole | | | | signal is transmitted in the air much in the same way |
| purpose is to transmit the signal. This device, called | | | | that a radio transmits. This means that if there are |
| the transmitter, is connected to the tuner via a cable. | | | | other wireless devices within the same vicinity the |
| An amplifier is also used and this is to magnify the | | | | sound quality may suffer. |
| signal and boost its quality. The signal transmitter also | | | | |