If you can't wait to jump onto the bandwagon of the wireless revolution, then maybe you should consider the Rocketfish Rocketboost, which will turn your home theater system wireless. Here at Unplggd, we like nothing better than getting rid of people's wires.
Rocketfish Rocketboost is able to take the audio output from your home theater or MP3 player and relay it t wireless speakers that can be placed strategically throughout your house, or even outside. The system is available with different configurations. Options include will let you get rid of the wires in your room, transmit your music all over your home, or relay your music outside your home into your backyard. Sounds pretty interesting.
Depending on what you want to do, there is an option that will fit your needs. The system is made out of a wireless amplified audio receives, a wireless sender/receiver, wireless outdoor speakers, as well as an HD audio starter kit. These different configurations are available. You can set up to five different sources and up to nine different receivers around your home. Rocketboost is available right now through Best Buy. Prices start at $57 for sender/receivers, $190 for the wireless HD audio starter kit, $95 for the amp, and $170 for the outdoor speaker.
We like how this is an affordable option if you really want to turn your audio system wireless. It gets rid of all of the wires and also enables you to transmit your music to the backyard without any fancy setups.
[via Crunchgear, photos via Best Buy]
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Please do a re re(al) view on this product. I have been looking for a wireless audio solution and I just purchased the audioengine w1 based on the recommendation from your site. I am interested to see a review, and how the products compare with each other.
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Yeah, a real review or some customer reviews would be great. My wife and I would like to reduce our wires, but I have repeatedly read nothing good about any wireless systems.
I keep reading that wireless systems have terrible sound quality and are prone to picking up interference. Plus, with wireless speakers, don't they need a power source? So it's not like they would be TOTALLY wireless anyway.
@jeremy a. - how is your's holding up so far?
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ditto, really wouldn't mind piping my record player sound outside, or upstairs, but I'm really not trying to run a bunch of wires.
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@erikthered - i don't own the rocketfish items. i have a media pc in the bedroom that i have hooked into an lcd hdtv for a monitor. i'm using harmon kardon's soundsticks 2 for a stero. however, the current room setup has the tv/pc and the stereo at a distance from each other. i was looking for a way to transmit the audio from the pc to the speakers w/out running wires, and i came across audioengine's w1. the w1 is amazing. i would like to see a review of rocketfish's items to see how the sound quality and ease of use compare because i was thinking of purchasing a second unit for a stereo i have in the kitchen.
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Do you people really want to live inside a microwave? Because this is where this "everything wireless" trend leads. Don`t get me wrong, I love my Wi-Fi and ability to be connected to the net from any point of my apartment, but my laptop is my only wireless device. Everything stationary has its own set of cables, mostly hidden in walls and floors. Of course, it required some work, but it was done once and never touched since then. While having a set of portable speakers to be set up in the garden seems yet reasonable, having stationary wireless speakers inside doesn`t. Remember, every speaker would have its own power supply, which means it would be plugged somewnere anyway. By the way, the more power supplies, the more energy goes to waste - not very green, huh?
I`m not some "Anti-Wireless" nut, no. I just believe that wireless, as any other technology, has places where it belongs and other places where it doesn`t. I`ll probably have more wireless devices in the future, but will always try to keep them as few as possible - because we still don`t know much about the way such high frequency radio waves affect our bodies, and because my common sense tells me that there is no point in using a complicated, energy-consuming technology where it is not necessary. Hey, we have thick electronic smog around us already - why contribute to it without a really good reason?
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