Wireless Music Through House, No Computer Needed The Electronic Jungle

Wireless Music Through House, No Computer Needed The Electronic Jungle: Kevin Hunt August 28, 2008 If I were an audio cable, I'd start worrying about job security.

Everything's going wireless. And now everything that isn't wireless will be wireless once it's introduced to a new adapter from Audioengine.

Never before had I even considered streaming music from the 48 advertising-free music channels on my cable TV box to a bedroom stereo system about 70 feet down the hall. No way. But after installing the AW1 Premium Wireless Audio Adapter, Buddy Guy's "My Time After Awhile" was coming through loud and clear, like a homebrew satellite radio, on the bedroom stereo.

This isn't the AW1's intended use, though it'll sure make you look like a genius. Know anyone else in the neighborhood who can send music anywhere in the house using their existing audio equipment, without a computer or an elaborate full-house system or wireless speakers?

"You don't need a computer to move audio — just power for the sender and receiver," says Brady Bargenquast, Audioengine's co-founder and director. "Some people seem to think that the only way you can use the AW1 is with a host computer."

Audioengine, in fact, designed the adapter for streaming tunes from a computer to a pair of the San Jose, Calif., company's powered loudspeakers. It's hard to imagine the AW1 somehow not connected to a computer. The AW1, the size of a...
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