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A Look At A Few Of The Trendiest Wireless Audio Toys
Recent wireless audio devices such as iPods, wireless headphones and cell phones support new wireless protocols. These protocols are supposed to eliminate the cord and provide perfect high-fidelity audio. I will take a look at if these products keep their promise to deliver perfect-quality audio. Furthermore, I will examine the underlying technologies.
Some products are available with wireless already built in while others, particularly streaming audio products, often have optional wireless functionality. Modern cell phones and MP3 players already come with support for wireless. iPhones and touch-screen iPods, as an example, have Bluetooth and WiFi.
The Bluetooth protocol is a fairly low-cost option. Still, its limitations have an effect on high-quality audio applications and are often overlooked.
1) Restricted operating range
Bluetooth devices usually just have a 30-foot range which confines Bluetooth to single-room applications.
2) Low data rate - audio compression
Bluetooth provides a maximum reliable data rate of roughly 1 Mbps only. This rate is not large enough to transmit uncompressed CD-quality audio. Therefore Bluetooth wireless devices utilize audio compression. The audio will be degraded to some extent as a result of the audio compression. For this reason higher-end audio equipment generally does not use Bluetooth wireless audio.
3) Audio latency
The signal sent via Bluetooth will undergo a small delay of at least 10 ms. This is mostly as a result of the audio compression. While being uncritical for MP3 players, this delay may be a dilemma for video and other real-time applications.
4) No multiple headphone support
Bluetooth is relatively limited in regard to supporting streaming to many headphones. Streaming to several headphones is useful for numerous people wanting to listen to the same transmitter. This is less of a problem for MP3 player applications.
Another common protocol is WiFi which supports uncompressed audio but also has limitations simultaneously streaming to many receivers. Because of the high availability, WiFi is practical for streaming audio from a PC. On the other hand, WiFi products have rather high power consumption. For this reason wireless headphones usually do not employ this technology.
Wireless speakers and wireless amplifier products for home theater speakers generally employ their own proprietary protocol. Entry-level wireless headphones and speakers typically still utilize FM transmission which offers low cost but is prone to noise and audio distortion.
More recent wireless audio protocols are based on digital transmission. This eliminates audio degradation. Several protocols also incorporate error correction to cope with interference from other wireless devices.
Advanced wireless amplifier devices support uncompressed digital audio streaming to maintain the original audio quality. A few of these protocols permit streaming to an infinite number of wireless amplifiers which is convenient for whole-house audio distribution.
The audio latency ranges from under 1 ms to up to 20 ms. A small latency is important for wireless surround sound applications. These wireless audio transmitters typically work at 2.4 GHz. There are also some devices such as Amphony’s line of wireless audio devices that work at 5.8 GHz. Products that operate at 5.8 GHz have less competition from other wireless products than those utilizing the crowded 2.4 GHz frequency band.
Wireless amplifiers offer different levels of audio quality, output power and standby power. Digital amplifiers typically offer a power efficiency of no less than 80% and standby power consumption of less than 5 Watts which keeps them cool during operation and helps save energy. However, some Class-D amps have fairly high audio distortion. Audiophile wireless amplifiers offer an audio distortion of 0.05% or less.
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Once You purchased wireless router then you don't need to pay monthly charge. But You will have to pay monthly charge for Internet connection that should be provided by ISP companies.
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