Wireless for Rear speakers

[deathstorm78]

My wife is very against running speaker wire along the floor or anywhere towards the rear of the living room. So I'm trying to come up with solutions.

I've read very little about the wireless speaker kits and wanted to know if anyone has any input regarding them. I'm not looking for anything phenomenal, but just something that will do the trick.

I've got a TX-SR705 coming and some RM6751s for the rears. I really wanted to have my house wired for surround, but right now I just can't afford it. I don't have any crawl space to get into the attic and put things where they should be or I'd do it myself.

I'm only going to be running a 5.1 for now.

 

[sdifox]

running wire in ceiling should be easy, just need a fish and patience You still need to power the so called wireless speakers. And they don't really work all that well since they are either IR which means line of sight or RF, which is subceptible to interference.

 

[iRONic]

Rocketfish

 

[darkswordsman17]

In my opinion, you'd be better off not even bothering with the surrounds. Put the money you'll save from buying overpriced wireless ones into better fronts or just save it for when you can properly wire the room or make other changes.

 

[trmiv]

Can you run it under the carpet? I bought a carpet wire snake that I'm about to use. I tested it out the other day without hooking up the wire and pulling it and it looks like it will be a snap. I'm just putting a small slit in the carpet under the couch (our couch is in the middle of the room), feed the snake through, another small slit under the TV stand to grab the snake end, tape the wires to it and pull through.

 

[deathstorm78]

well, our living room is all tile. I may have a solution to run wires, but I wanted to see if anyone had experience with the wireless units and any info on their performanc.e

 

[OUCaptain]

How about something like this.

Flat, paintable speaker wire

 

[SpeedEng66]

I have the panasonic htib system with wireless (sorta still have to plug them in)

the good
wife is happy I didnt run speaker wire across the room
pretty nice quality sound
can be placed away from the reciever as far as 15~ feet

the bad
slight (constant) humming noise when the wireless is on
if you stand in front of the reciever or in front of the rear wireless reciever the signal will cut off.

 

[ProfJohn]

You can get crown molding kits that allow you to run wire behind them.

Not to hard to put up and your wife might like the idea.

 

[Sentrosi2121]

What about something like this? Text

 

[deathstorm78]

Originally posted by: OUCaptain
How about something like this.

Flat, paintable speaker wire

This looks really good. I think we've got a winner!
Anyone use these?