Does anybody have experience with any of the wireless towers? Specifically the m100? Any drawbacks going with the built in amp? 600 watt rms per speaker seems like plenty. I’m guessing these amps are based off of the ADA 1500?

Oh. Ha. Guess I answered part of my own question. Probably same amp that is in the ep600. One per m 100 tower.

Any tangible benefit to effectively having mono blocked m100’s? Some would say mono amped is superior somehow. Others would say having a plate amp inside the speaker is bad. My wife says she’d be happy to see no wires and a small preamp hidden in a cabinet all controlled from an iPad.

I gotta say I had visions of seeing all my nice components laid out , enjoying the visual feast of electronics and being able to swap things and experiment but if wireless is the compromise to make it work then exploring the idea might be worth it.

Would you get the same bandwidth with wifi that you would get from cables?

Potential trade-off between WAF and highest possible level sound quality. Happy wife, happy life.

That’s kinda the clincher eh? The band width of the wireless vs cables. I don’t even know how to begin to evaluate that. I mean there’s a part of me that doesn’t want to compromise in the great room but I can chase the perfection system in another room in the house and still have a nice convenient and quality system that has good WAF.

But the bandwidth and the signal strength questions need answers.

The other option is to do the work to hide everything cleanly building a conventional separates system, it is possible. I could do all that work myself too. Just takes time.

I used to pride myself on saying I have more time than money. But as I’ve gotten slightly older the tables have turned quite a bit.

There's no speaker wires, but electrical plugs are still required. I'm not sure if that is really much better/cleaner or not.

Totally. Good point. I have 2 perfectly placed electrical outlets that would blend into behind the speakers. The advantage is that all the components and wires would be gone and no need to have component rack or cabinet placed in an undesirable location. With wireless it could be anywhere in the room and more aesthetic. Im not convinced its what I want though. I really like the components the ability to visully enjoy them and to change things out in the future an try stuff.

My other option is build my own media room in the basement to have that and use a wireless system in the greatroom. Generally these are good problems to have...

My big question is the reliability of the wireless tech and then always being comitted to on board power amps and the technology, no swaps possible.

If your system can wirelessly stream the required 20 Mb/sec for 4K video, it can stream the 9.2 Mb/sec for 24bit/192KHz audio.

The issue is channel latency. The simultaneity of left and right channels can't be guaranteed.