While many wireless rear speaker kits tend to only work with the same brand of audio equipment, the Rocketfish universal wireless rear speaker kit offers surround sound no matter what brand of system you have. The RF-WHTIB is not an actual speaker, but instead is a combination of a sender and a receiver unit which allows you to plug in your own rear speakers without having to run messy speaker cables from the front to the back of your movie room. Sound quality with this system is excellent thanks in part to two 25 watt digital power amps embedded in the receiver unit where your rear speakers are plugged in. This gives the sound from your home theater system enough punch to make the experience very enjoyable.
The wireless technology used by the wireless rear speaker kit uses the standard 2.4GHZ frequency that you see in many home computer networks and cordless phones. The maximum distance you can have the sender and receiver units apart is 100 feet, which should be more than enough for your home theater setup. The receiver unit where you plug in your rear speakers can be mounted on the wall or you can set it up vertically in its own stand if you are using pedestals for your rear speakers. You’ll need to be near a wall outlet as well so that you can plug in the receiver unit to power the dual amps. Fortunately there is a small compartment underneath the receiver component to hide the excess power cord which is especially nice if you have it wall mounted. There is a volume control on the receiver unit that you will really only use to set the initial volume level for your system. After that you’ll control the volume of the entire home theater system as you normally would.
Installation of the system is not complex at all. Rocketfish wireless products usually are pre-paired at the factory so the sender and receiver unit are already linked up once you take them out of the box. You connect the sending unit to your home theater sound system using left and right speaker input terminals just like you would if you were physically running the cable to the back of the room. In this case the iPod sized sender unit can just rest next to the rest of your home theater components. The receiver unit is just as easy to set up. You simply connect your rear surround speakers to the left and right speaker terminals on the back and plug in the power. Because they were pre-paired you should be up and running at this point but if there is any issue both the receiver and sender unit have manual connect buttons to force them to seek each other out. The only other tweaking you may have to consider is adjusting the delay setting on your home theater system so that the latency caused by the wireless connection is properly handled. Generally you can set the delay setting to somewhere around 15 to 20ms to achieve the best surround sound effect.