Airmotive 4S with wireless adapter

[beaudreau10]

Would a pair of 4S speakers work with a wireless adapter such as the Rocketfish or IFinity?  I'm looking for a simplified rear-channel set-up.

[Axis]

Yes.

If the Airmotiv 4S speaker gets a signal it will speaker it. Don't know if there will be a lag in the signal when you transmit it. Don't know if there will be interference in that signal. You may have to try it to find out yourself if no one is doing this here and can respond there experience. Keep digging for info or give a try.

Please report back here if it works. I said yes because you can but don't know if it works good myself.

[dasanto2]

I suggest a transmitter that's designed with low latency. Avantree and parts express has some options available.

[Axis]

Jun 14, 2017 22:08:55 GMT -5 dasanto2 said:

I suggest a transmitter that's designed with low latency. Avantree and parts express has some options available.

"low latency"

I know that from recording and that's what may suffer from this kinda thing. If it is a proper system for this application then it would be good on latency or lag for the process. It would be interesting to know how someone is doing this kinda thing good for using with surround channels in a surround system.

[KeithL]

As stated, the speakers will play whatever audio you feed them, so will work with pretty much any source.

As for latency, in general you want low latency, but it's also important that the latency be consistent (which it should be with most systems designed for music).
(Packetized systems might adjust their buffer size based on traffic or network speed, which could mean a different amount of latency at different times.)
 
In a home theater system latency is pretty much equivalent to distance.
If you add 10 milliseconds of delay to the rear speakers, as far as your pre/pro is concerned, you have just moved them 10 feet further away.
(So your distance setting and delay will correct for that latency just as it would for a difference in distance.)

The only catch would be if the latency is so extreme that it makes the distance settings problematic.
Remember that you can never correct for a speaker by adding negative delay......
If your front speakers are 5 feet away, and your rears are 20 feet away, your system will ADD 15 mS of delay to the fronts to make them equal.
(This would only be a problem if the latency was so extreme that the delay in the audio became audible... which might happen with a system not designed for home theater audio.)

Jun 14, 2017 22:14:50 GMT -5 Axis said:

Jun 14, 2017 22:08:55 GMT -5 dasanto2 said:

I suggest a transmitter that's designed with low latency. Avantree and parts express has some options available.

"low latency"

I know that from recording and that's what may suffer from this kinda thing. If it is a proper system for this application then it would be good on latency or lag for the process. It would be interesting to know how someone is doing this kinda thing good for using with surround channels in a surround system.