Wireless speakers are a great option for bringing music into all rooms of zour home. However, the wireless signal will get weaker when it passes through walls and partitions of your home. Thus when purchasing wireless speakers the operating range is a critical parameter when it comes to ensuring reliable operation on all of your rooms.
Bluetooth wireless speakers are very common since they can work with most cell phones and MP3 players. However, the Bluetooth signal usually only offers a 30-foot operating range. This is just enough for a single room. To send music to other rooms in your home, you’ll have to opt for another wireless technology.
WiFi-based speakers improe on the limited operating range of Bluetooth. WiFi offers a range of around 300 to 500 feet in a line-of-sight environment. This range will decrease indoors as the direct path is blocked by walls and other obstacles. Also, WiFi was not designed for real-time music streaming applications. As such WiFi speakers may have fairly large audio latency to enable sufficient buffering of audio packets.
Amphony iFinity wireless speakers employ a proprietary wireless protocol which was optimized for audio streaming. It works at 2.4 GHz and offers a range of up to 600 feet. Up to 4 speakers can operate from one transmitter. Pairing between the transmitter and each speaker is done by pushing a pairing button on both the transmitter and the speaker.
Digital wireless audio transmission ensures a high signal-to-noise ratio and also a high robustness against interference from other wireless gadgets such as wireless networks.
