Hi Ratpack and all,
To allay your worries about Axiom's wireless speakers (it's premature to condemn a product before it's even appeared!), I'll address a couple of the issues you mention and how Axiom is solving them.
It's Axiom's judgment that currently there are no well-designed wireless speakers, the problems being gross underpowering and low-tech transmission systems. The goal of our wireless engineering program is to produce an authentically high-fidelity wireless speaker with lots of power and no communication problems within its stated range.
1. Axiom has developed a highly efficient amplifier similar to the those used in the EP500, EP600, and EP400 subwoofers. At loud or very loud levels, the amplifier efficiency reaches 90% to 95%.
The self-contained amplifier in each speaker produces 75 watts. The largest battery that Axiom will offer delivers 24 hours of continuous operation depending on the volume level and in tests has lasted 30 hours.
At full volume, which is really loud (and the sound is very clean), the battery lasted 13 hours.
2. The transmission system runs on the 2.4GHz band and is digital with error correction and talk-back to the transmitter for errors and linking.
The range of the speaker system is of course dependant on the materials in between the transmitter and the receiver but we have reached 150 ft or more through walls.
"Garbled" transmissions do not occur: the system either works perfectly or shuts down.
Regards,
