Are There any Good Wireless Speakers Out There?

By The Manolith Team on October 29th, 2008

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We all know the advantages that wireless speakers provide for you. Even an idiot could figure out the fact that wireless speakers are nice because of the fact that you can move them around, all over the place, without any repercussions. You can take them from your living room to your garage and out to your buddy’s house for the poker game you have going that night. No matter where you need to go with your wireless speakers, you can get the job done with wireless speakers. With many other types of speakers, you have to worry about wires and all of that jazz. This isn’t the case with wireless speakers.

The problem with that is that you give up an awful lot in sound quality when you choose to go with wireless speakers over some of the other options out on the market. This means that no matter what you choose, you are going to be making a sacrifice somewhere. You are going to be giving up something somewhere. So you have to thinking about it this way – what are you willing to give up? What is most important to you when it comes to your speakers? Is it more important to have awesome sound or would you rather have the ability to move that sound all around? These are things that are worth considering.

You will also find that wireless speakers won’t be very useful as rear speaks in a home entertainment system. In short, it will be nearly impossible to get them to provide quality sound from that position. This is why you will want to use them only in their most functional sense. If you are planning on building a home theater system, then you should go with what has proven to work in that system. Even if you have to pay a little bit more for it and you give up some of the fancy mobility, you will have a better experience with it.

The one thing that will hold you back when it comes to these wireless speakers is the fact that you are still going to have to power the speakers somehow. You can’t just get by with hoping that they power themselves. This means that you have to have both batteries and power cords if you are going to provide enough power for them to work. What many people don’t know about wireless speakers is that they are self-amplified. This means, above all else, that you are going to have to make some concessions to keep them powered throughout. For those people who are really serious about good sound quality, these are not the answer to their sound needs.

All in all, wireless speakers probably are not the way to go if you are looking to get great sound quality. As you can see here, they provide you with some nice flexibility, but they are not the end all, be all of the speaker world. You can do better if you try to find something a little bit different.

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