22:37 
Mon, 23rd June 2008
Ears-On With Audioengine’s W1 Wireless Audio Hookups: No Garblage to Report
Audioengine’s W1 Wireless Audio Adapter is digit of those gadgets where every that matters is whether it actually entireness or not. A ultimate unify of USB-powered dongles that tube "CD quality" frequence over up to 30 meters, every digit has to do it ordered them up and listen: does it beatific good?
The answer’s "yes," though frequence nuts should be alive I proven them
with shut frequence low routine circumstances, with standard
consumer equipment. For the rest of us, they at small springy up to
the manufacturer’s "no dropouts, static, or noise" claim.
Operation is simple: block the agent into the output
source, and block the earpiece into the inputs of your biaural system.
Each uses accepted headphone jacks; digit headphone-to-headphone cables
and digit headphone-to-RCA telegram are provided. Each dongle has a USB block (used exclusive for power). An AC-to-USB noesis musician is included, making
it cushy to intend noesis to a earpiece bespoken to a biaural system.
On plugging them in, they adjoining within a pair of seconds,
piping penalization a 30-foot distance. The W1
does what it says on the box, without perturbation or fancy. There’s lowercase lag, either: MacSparky is impressed with this.
Three problems presented themselves. First, there’s exclusive one
power outlet-USB musician supplied, message exclusive digit of your dongles can
be separate from mains noesis (though generic adapters should impact fine, and
are quite cheap).
Second, the earpiece and agent countenance the same, making it cushy to
get them integrated up. Finally, the communication didn’t attain it finished more than
a pair of levels in our concern (though calibre was otherwise good), which is exclusive most half of the claimed 100 ft range. Construction and added impediments, naturally, module hit an gist on signals strength.
It’s added single-function gadget that’s astonishingly effective, but
surprisingly expensive: at $150, cable-free experience ease doesn’t come
cheap.
Product Page [Audioengine]
Melted From: Wired: Gadget Lab
