Dave Farr wrote:

vikinger wrote:

I've posted before about this issue. I always thought that the obvious thing to do was to send the speaker signal via the mains. Maybe there are technical reasons why a clean enough signal cannot be sent this way, but so many things are now done via the mains right down to plug-in baby listening devices.

Graham

I use this method for Wi-Fi around the house.  It's OK but in some houses (like ours) there are multiple circuits i.e. between floors and even different rooms or between sockets within rooms and the signal does not cross between two different circuits.  It won't operate via a trailing socket (technical reasons) and signal strength is lost over distance.

Would be ideal though.

Dave.

 

I'd forgotten that many ISP's actually prefer router extenders to work via the mains, so the technology is there. There's a good chance that in any one room in a UK house that the sockets are on the same ring main. Having said that I do realise that the use of ring mains rather than radial circuits is probably unique to the UK. It apparently arose from the post WW2 shortage of copper.

So maybe the use of the mains was dismissed due to radial circuits not necessarily being linked to each other. But it would certainly work in the UK for individual rooms.

Graham

Dave Farr wrote:

I've got no inclination to move to 'wireless' speakers in the future.  The reason?  They aren't wireless - not until you can send electricity via the airwaves (much like Tesla claimed he could do! ) There will always be a power cable so why not just use Powerlink cables and put them, with the power cable in the smallest cable tidy/sock available?  It looks neat, and the permanent cables don't produce drop-outs etc.

Dave.

You will have to admit, that there always already are several power outlets in a room, so getting power to a BL was/is (mostly) never a problem.

But in a lot of cases getting the soundsignal to the speakers would be the problem - for lots of different reasons.

I regard the WiSA connection as an option for these cases.

And I think, that it is fine, that B&O can provide 'the best of all' wireless connections - the WiSA-one.

However, if you can hardwire an audio connection, why shouldn't you do so!

MM

vikinger wrote:

There's a good chance that in any one room in a UK house that the sockets are on the same ring main. Having said that I do realise that the use of ring mains rather than radial circuits is probably unique to the UK. It apparently arose from the post WW2 shortage of copper.

I'm sorry to hear of several folks' WISA issues, I hope they get resolved. But I'm of one of the camps in this thread. I'm likely going to get a pair of WISA speakers in the very near future, but even with that capability I'm going to hard wire them to whatever system they'll be connected to, for me, at least, there's always some peace of mind that when it is connected, it'll just work. But having the option to test placement without worrying about that extra cable is great. That is, test placement first using WISA, then then you've found their place, hard wire them.

Hi, I hope you will get this sorted.  I have transmitter1 and beolab 17.  It has been rock solid.  I did notice that the transmitter light was bleenking some days ago like it was receiving an update.  

flashing - not bleenking ( english is not my first or second language).

Thanks for all the replies. Seems like WISA is not as stable as i thought. It's very frustrating taking the power cable in and out every day.

What should I do? I want to have my TV and AirPort Express (AirPlay) connected. Should I connect the BeoLab 18's with Power Link to Transmitter 1?

Luke wrote:

Hi all, just registered here and thought it was about time to start share stuff and participate in the discussions on this great forum.

I can more or less confirm that the connectivity issues that is reported in this thread are all due to disturbances from wi-fi router communication. Probably from the 5ghz band which is quite close to the bandwidth that WISA is using. I experienced the same with my setup and the solution is very simple. Configure your router (both 2.4ghz and 5ghz) to a fixed channel instead of using the default that is "automatic" I for instance choose channel 11 for 2.4ghz and 44 for 5ghz. I experienced A LOT of drop-outs when I installed my setup and I also initially blaimed the WISA. But since the above change/config was mad I haven't experienced one single drop-out and have been running flawless the last couple of months.

The main problem was i my living room where I have the following setup:

- Beovision 11 - 4 x Beolab 18 - Beolab 19

All connected through WISA via the built in module in the BV 11

So all of you that encounter problems - try the above and I would bet it fixes the problem. Try different channels also and focus on the 5ghz band. Could be worth mentioning that I'm running Time Capsule and Airport Extreem that extends my wifi. But should be the same for all routers

Cheers, Lukas

Thanks Lukas, I'm running Time Capsule, and have now changed to fixed channels. My AirPort Express is not in Network Mode. My only concern is my neighbors' network, as i can see through Wireless Diagnostics Scan several 5GHz and 2.4 GHz networks.

I will try to see if this solves the problem.