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The thing about hte y-splitter on the line-out jacks is that I lose volume control. If I could get my hands on a BPA-1 or the like, that might work with regular wireless line level transmission, but BPA-1s seem to be a bit thin on the ground these days.

I think Parts Express had a clone of the BPA-1.

So I see. Interesting--it looks almost identical. I wonder who was sourcing whom?

Don't forget to include a time delay circuit for the M22s. 30 - 40 feet is enough distance from the M80s that you may begin to detect a fatness the sound due to the slightly delayed sound from the M80s mixing with the sound of the M22s.

Okay, so I might be exaggerating. But only slightly.

Way to feed my paranoia. Thanks, buddy...

What is your source Ken? Prior to the receiver that is. I'm assuming multiple sources but if it's 90% about all your music stored on your PC, (as I know you are a big download guy,) then I have had very great results with a Squeezbox feeding an inexpensive 100w Panasonic amp that I had left over from my old setup.

The frequency used by a Squeezebox is in the realm of wireless routers and such so it is unaffected by phones and other such 2.4 and 5 GHz devices. It seems impervious to my microwave as well. It is open to the kitchen but across the distance of both my living room and kitchen. I still think this demonstrates you would be OK though as traveling through empty space is something microwaves are very good at.

I initially tried to do what you are thinking about in regards to using the pre-amps on your receiver. On my Denon, this caused confusion, then frustration as I soon discovered that it would only forward analogue signal in this manner. (I was testing with a music DVD then CD that never had a chance.)

That being said, it doesn't solve your speaker wire issue.
I have never yet heard a a wireless speaker that didn't sound like am radio but then again, they were not Axiom speakers. I'm not an expert to comment on getting the whole audible spectrum effectively sent via 2.4 GHz so I'll leave that for others or at least until Google fills me in.

Reread some posts, if you are interested in simultaneous listening from your speakers and the kitchen speakers, a squeezebox may not be the right choice. Unless you use two of them, but that's not practical price wise when you already have one working system.

A good friend of mine has one of these that he uses to transmit audio from his main AV room to his kitchen. Note that this is a 5.8ghz unit, which gets you out the of the frequency range of microwaves and 802.11 signals. It can also do video, though my friend doesn't use this feature so I can't comment as to the quality.

Attached to the receiver in the kitchen is a decent Altec Lansing powered speaker+sub combo. It sounds great. Nothing about the sound suggests that it's a wireless connection.

It also has a remote IR blaster feature as well, so you could control your gear from the kitchen.

And as far as the T-Amp goes, I have a Gen 2 T-Amp powering a pair of M22's in our bedroom. It works very well for this and sounds fantastic. The only drawbacks are that the build quality feels like something won at a carnival and that the volume control is simply a knob, as you mentioned. No remote power/volume.

My primary source is an iPod (at least for this purpose).

Thanks for the tip, Peter C. I had looked at those a bit, but was tempted by the integrated nature of the other system. Which has apparently been recalled indefinitely to fix a quality problem.

But I think Peter B is right... I'm thinking about what else to do with them. Perhaps a bedroom system.

Ken, where did you finally end up putting your M22's? How do you like them?