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Channel Vision Intros Mix-and-Match Wireless Audio
Aria wireless audio line includes speakers with removable back panels for adding amplification and/or wireless capabilities
Featuring a 100-watt amp and wireless technology, the WA-350 can be installed in a wall or in back of a Channel Vision speaker.
Whether you want wired or wireless audio, powered or passive speakers, Channel Vision has a solution for you.
It starts with the company’s Hi-Fi Bookshelf Speaker, available in three sizes and “any color as long as it’s black,” says Channel Vision CEO Darrel Hauk.
On their own, the speakers are passive, but they have a removable rear panel that can be replaced with one of Channel Vision’s new two-channel amps: the A0350 and the wireless WA-350 version – both rated at 50 watts per channel
Or, if you’re not crazy about Channel Vision’s own speakers, those same amps can be used standalone for mounting in a wall. On the face, the units have an IR receiver for control and front-panel jacks for a local source.
On the back, there are outputs for a subwoofer or stereo sound, as well as a Cat 5 port for connecting to an external keypad
For best results, the amps are powered via a 24 VDC external power supply, but a rear connection enables the units to be powered through 16-gauge wire instead.
Even if wireless audio is not the optimal solution for a home theater or multiroom audio system, it’s always a nice option to have. Hauk says that dealers are “embracing the technology when running wires is a problem. Subs and rear speakers can be the hardest things to wire.”
Channel Vision gives dealers a good contingency plan with its mix-and-match amp/speaker solutions. If you find out that fishing wires isn’t going to work after all, you can solve any retrofit speaker issue with just a handful of SKUs in your van.
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Transmitters (<$125 retail)
WA-320 Source to destination (1 to 1)
WA-321 Source to unlimited destinations (1 to many)
Receivers (<$100)
WA-360 Receiver (for WA-320)
WA-361 Receiver (for WA-321)
Receivers with in-wall 100 watt Amplifier or 50 watt stereo (<$275)
WA-350 receiver (for WA-320)
WA-351 receiver (for WA-321)
Check out the Retrofit track at EHX Spring.
Electronic House Expo Spring 2010: The New Opportunities Show, March 25-27, 2010, Orlando, Fla.
Smart Energy | Commercial | Home Health Tech | Recurring Revenue | Digital Content | Retrofit
http://www.ehxweb.com
It starts with the company’s Hi-Fi Bookshelf Speaker, available in three sizes and “any color as long as it’s black,” says Channel Vision CEO Darrel Hauk.
On their own, the speakers are passive, but they have a removable rear panel that can be replaced with one of Channel Vision’s new two-channel amps: the A0350 and the wireless WA-350 version – both rated at 50 watts per channel
Or, if you’re not crazy about Channel Vision’s own speakers, those same amps can be used standalone for mounting in a wall. On the face, the units have an IR receiver for control and front-panel jacks for a local source.
On the back, there are outputs for a subwoofer or stereo sound, as well as a Cat 5 port for connecting to an external keypad
For best results, the amps are powered via a 24 VDC external power supply, but a rear connection enables the units to be powered through 16-gauge wire instead.
Even if wireless audio is not the optimal solution for a home theater or multiroom audio system, it’s always a nice option to have. Hauk says that dealers are “embracing the technology when running wires is a problem. Subs and rear speakers can be the hardest things to wire.”
Channel Vision gives dealers a good contingency plan with its mix-and-match amp/speaker solutions. If you find out that fishing wires isn’t going to work after all, you can solve any retrofit speaker issue with just a handful of SKUs in your van.
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Aria Wireless Audio Line
Transmitters (<$125 retail)
WA-320 Source to destination (1 to 1)
WA-321 Source to unlimited destinations (1 to many)
Receivers (<$100)
WA-360 Receiver (for WA-320)
WA-361 Receiver (for WA-321)
Receivers with in-wall 100 watt Amplifier or 50 watt stereo (<$275)
WA-350 receiver (for WA-320)
WA-351 receiver (for WA-321)
Check out the Retrofit track at EHX Spring.
Electronic House Expo Spring 2010: The New Opportunities Show, March 25-27, 2010, Orlando, Fla.
Smart Energy | Commercial | Home Health Tech | Recurring Revenue | Digital Content | Retrofit
http://www.ehxweb.com
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Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.
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Wow, this was almost cool.
I read the manual and ... 2.4GHz? really guys? really?
We have enough issues with WiFi interference from cordless phones, microwave ovens and every other crappy knick-nack wireless whatever in the house. Why-oh-why would I intentionally install yet another piece that wants to play in the same space as my customer’s wireless Internet?
Why solve one problem but create another? Are they giving away free t-shirts with 2.4GHz licenses or something?