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I have never heard a wireless speaker system that did not suffer from interference, dropouts, or distortion.

Spend your money on ribbon wire and skim coat it onto your walls. Some is so thin you can just stick it and paint it.

I first enjoyed having wireless speakers in my apartment, not having to worry about stringing wire under carpet or whatever. After buying a house, we still use our wireless speakers all the time whenever we want to bring the music somewhere different: outside our front door, the back deck, etc. It's handy, haven't had much interference, dropouts or distortion in 10+ years from inexpensive RCA speakers from Radio Shack.

i suggest you just get an airport express from www.apple.com, and plug your wired (and powered) speakers into it. there's not a good selection of high quality wireless speakers ATM.

The AR system only has the rears wireless.

The big issue with home theater and wireless is that surround sound depends on milliseconds of delay to be coordinated between the speakers. The AR system has to use highly tuned QoS (quality of service) over wireless just to get the rears to match let alone the rest of the system.

I vote with Max and suggest getting high quality ribbon cables. If you want to spread your system out among rooms without premise wiring, I suggest something like the Sonnet systems or Windows Media Center Extenders, etc. and a wireless network.

Kef wireless looks promising (click on my name). I'm surprised Sonos hasn't adapted its system yet for wireless surrounds, since this is the obvious next step for the company. There was another company at CES, but the speakers and electronis cost $5000+.

Ribbon wire? Where is an example of this? Who sells this?

Ribbon wire by DeCorp:
http://www.decorp.com/dewire.htm