Why not more wireless connections?


Greetings

As far as I can tell, wireless is all around us but not so much in home audio systems. Why is that? Why not wireless connections between sources and amp and between amps and speakers? Why use wires at all? 

Thanks

bzawa

Showing 1 response by erik_squires

Wireless definitely has the advantage of convenience.  For me personally it's really more about reliability. I have suffered in one way or another through many versions of wifi, sometimes in very congested areas sometimes not.  

Devices overheat for no apparent reason and wifi drops, your neighbors new Comcastg router just added 8 new wifi signals on your band and is crowding you out.... that's my biggest beef with it. 

The other one is EMI/RFI interference and noise potential. Not sure if that's real or not but I worry.

From a pure numbers game, assuming you have a good connection and no competition Wifi has so much more bandwidth than audio will ever need, and I've heard good things about Wifi 7's ability to be stable even in a crowded environment, so, sure! Try it.