Wireless signal to delay speakers

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Jason Raboin

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Is anyone out there using wireless transmitters and receivers to send signal to your (powered) delay speakers? If so, what are you using and how is it working? Fidelity loss?

I've been doing a lot of corporate work lately and it sure would help with cable runs if I could send signal wirelessly.
 
Re: Wireless signal to delay speakers

Jason Raboin said:
Is anyone out there using wireless transmitters and receivers to send signal to your (powered) delay speakers? If so, what are you using and how is it working? Fidelity loss?

I've been doing a lot of corporate work lately and it sure would help with cable runs if I could send signal wirelessly.
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For corporate I don't think you can beat the fidelity and reliability of copper. There are probably some high dollar solutions but the cost may not be worth the benefit.

I have often wondered if you can pair a wireless mic reciever and iem transmitter on the same frequency with some paddle antennas for a medium quality wireless link for parades and air show type stuff. It should work but I don't know if there would be an issue with tone squelch, etc to get the units to "talk" to eachother.
 
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Tom Manchester said:
For corporate I don't think you can beat the fidelity and reliability of copper. There are probably some high dollar solutions but the cost may not be worth the benefit.

I have often wondered if you can pair a wireless mic reciever and iem transmitter on the same frequency with some paddle antennas for a medium quality wireless link for parades and air show type stuff. It should work but I don't know if there would be an issue with tone squelch, etc to get the units to "talk" to eachother.
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I believe that Shure UHF-r and the PSM-900 are designed to pair.
 
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Jason Raboin said:
Is anyone out there using wireless transmitters and receivers to send signal to your (powered) delay speakers? If so, what are you using and how is it working? Fidelity loss?

I've been doing a lot of corporate work lately and it sure would help with cable runs if I could send signal wirelessly.
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Lectrosonics IFB T4 transmitters with R400 or Venue receivers, depending on deployment.

Rock solid, 250mW, use log periodic or helical antennae for point to point or an omni transmit antenna with LP or helicals on the receiver.

Have fun, good luck.

Tim Mc
 
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A 'consumer' grade piece of gear that actually works quite well for this is the SONOS Zone Player, ZP90. With these, you can create a mesh network that works quite well. It supports up to 32 devices. I've used it with 6 with great success. There is some minor latency in the signal, but for delay speakers you want that anyway. Quality is nearly as good as copper.
 
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I use high power UHF and 5GHz solutions.

UHF: Sennheiser IEM transmitter, 5W-booster, license, receivers. Good for a few hundret meters up to one kilometer, rock solid, low fidelity (audio band limited, dynamics just sufficient for outdoor venues with lots of people)

5GHz: new Trilogik system that I try out, stereo audio + DMX, full audio bandwidth / fidelity, harder to handle in terms of wireless stability, antenna solutions are vital for success.
 
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Christian Tepfer said:
I use high power UHF and 5GHz solutions.

UHF: Sennheiser IEM transmitter, 5W-booster, license, receivers. Good for a few hundret meters up to one kilometer, rock solid, low fidelity (audio band limited, dynamics just sufficient for outdoor venues with lots of people)

5GHz: new Trilogik system that I try out, stereo audio + DMX, full audio bandwidth / fidelity, harder to handle in terms of wireless stability, antenna solutions are vital for success.
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5W of UHF should get you significantly further than 1km outdoors, especially if you're using decent antennas (IE anything that's better than a 1/4 wave whip).
 
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Tim McCulloch said:
Lectrosonics IFB T4 transmitters with R400 or Venue receivers, depending on deployment.

Rock solid, 250mW, use log periodic or helical antennae for point to point or an omni transmit antenna with LP or helicals on the receiver.

Have fun, good luck.

Tim Mc
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+1

It's fairly inexpensive too, as far as Lectro kit goes. Street on a IFB T4 is well under a grand and the R400A's aren't much more than about $600 each.

Oh, and audio quality is top notch as well with no companding and excellent SNR.
 
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I use the Lectrosonics digital hybrid system, too. Only problem is, I have only one system that I use for measurements, so when I use it for delays, I have to pull out mic cales for the measurements. Grr....

Geri O
 
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