Wireless speakers for a second room?
thanks for all the ideas! i have been looking at the links and googling, and most look feasable. now it is just time to pick a price point and dive in. i will probably start with a low price point item for background listening, then, depending on how much we really use it in the second room, upgrade to somthing more expensive in the future btw- imhififan, my dac/pre is a naim v1, which has a headphone out, so i can use that without running the tube amp. i can set the headphone out as either fixed volume or variable volume. nice feature. |
The Audioengine W3 Wireless Audio Adapter might just fit the bill for you if used with active/powered speakers @meiatflask. I purchased version 1 of this gizmo years ago and it worked quite well. http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Wireless/W3-Wireless-Audio-Adapter |
meiatflask, using the headphone output is not a good idea, you have to power on your power-amp to transmit signal to other rooms and it use up the tube life! Dynaudio offer some wireless speakers, you can connect the digtal or line output from your cd player to the transmitter, you don't even have to turn on your preamp and poweramp to play music in other rooms. http://www.dynaudio.com/home-audio/xeo Or, use a wireless AV transmitter/receivers, and connect to any integrated Amp or power/active speakers in other rooms. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA8SV3805934&cm_re=5.8ghz_transmitter-_-9SIA8... |
I've never done this but have thought about it. Parts Express has a simple and not too expensive possible solution. https://www.parts-express.com/terk-lf30s-wireless-24-ghz-wireless-a-v-entertainment-expansion-system... If I were you I'd just accept that in order to get really good, portable sound you need to get a portable player. I bought a Fiio x7 and it sounds great, is easy to use. It's kind of a hassle ripping CDs but worth it in my opinion. I hook it up to an old creek 5350SE connected to Vienna Mozart Grands in my camper and it's a great, very satisfying little system. I'd like to get some powered speakers to make for a very small/portable but still good system. |
I think what you want is a Bluesound Node, but you would be playing cd's from a digital library, not your CD player. I own the Node 1 and output to my DAC. I have to say I am very happy with the wireless connectivity (though I made a work around for 5g network rather than the 2.5g built in). They also have other models which can store your music, too. B |
