If you have ever been faced with the challenge of setting up a home theater system then you know that one of the most tedious tasks locate and connect all of you speakers with your AV receiver. Modern home theater systems require a fairly large number of surround speakers. In a 7.1 home theater system, for example, a total number of seven full-frequency speakers in addition to a subwoofer are required. That means you will have to run a large number of wiring through your room. In this article, I’m going to look at an alternative method for connecting speakers with your AV receiver.
Powerline systems have in introduce lately which are an alternative computer networks. These adapters are able to transmit data via your mains power line. The advantage of these systems clearly is the fact that the range of the signal is huge. In fact, you can transmit data for hundreds of meters without any problems. Recently, powerline adapters have also can use transmit music from an AV receiver to speakers. They are connected with the AV receiver as well as you speakers. The music itself is converted to data and transmitted via the power line. That in many cases can eliminate a large number of speaker wires. The major drawback of powerline systems, however, is the long latency which is being introduced by these kits into the audio signal. That means that the speakers which are connected via powerline are not in sync with the remaining speakers.
Wireless surround sound systems are an alternative to powerline systems. They work with a wireless signal to send music from the AV receiver to your speakers. These sets usually contain one transmitter unit as well as one or several wireless amplifiers. The amplifiers communicate with the transmitters and get music by radio-frequency signal. They then amplify the signal and drive the speakers. The advantage of these wireless kits is that the latency is usually less than 10 ms which is no enough for most home theater applications.
