Hah anyone else buy those black and decker batteries from the april fools woot-off? well if you did you could use them to power these, also headphones do work, just quietly, and its the same for all speakers the sound seems too come out quietly, even when turned up all the way it is only a comfortable volume, soo if you like loud music I wouldn't think this is for you....but maybe its only quiet because I tested with the battery....hell idk....

Jawnskeel wrote:Speaking of that TV woot had, I was at BJ's today and saw the exact same model for 2,999.99 before tax! The thing was gargantuan. The thing did have a giant viewing area.

Ah yes, but have you seen their price on butter?...excellent butter prices...they're like butter... good prices on umbrellas, too - which I used a lot last week keeping Fay at bay...Umbrellas and Butter what a combo...way past bedtime - goodnight (mmm orange soda)

If you have a laptop and a 1/8" to RCA cable you can achieve much better results by plugging he 1/8" end of that cable into your headphone out on the laptop and the other RCA end of that cable into an aux/cd/tape input on your stereo receiver.
Play your laptop music directly into your stereo system.

Honestly, this is quite a bulky device requiring 4 separate power outlets for their 2 power supplies plus 2 power supplies for powered speakers, not to mention all the rca and speaker cables... All this required to save you a 150 foot cable? cuz I bet there's nare a 350 foot space this will transmit through.

[quote postid="2529626" user="bogawoot"]If you have a laptop and a 1/8" to RCA cable you can achieve much better results by plugging he 1/8" end of that cable into your headphone out on the laptop and the other RCA end of that cable into an aux/cd/tape input on your stereo receiver.
Play your laptop music directly into your stereo system.
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I have done just that w/ my desktop, using a cable as mentioned listening to my favorite internet station (Radio Paradise) or XM radio through my PC. Works great. I would however like to pick up some wireless speakers for other rooms.

I bought two pairs of these in June. I connected one of the transmitters to my PC so that I can transmit internet radio to my stereo in another room. It has worked pretty well, except one of the transmitters has recently developed a problem. It seems like a heat issue, because I can unplug it for a few minutes and it starts working again for a while. I will have to see how good the 2 year warranty is. If they replace it, I will still be happy with them. There is a switch on the back of both the receiver & transmitter that lets you select from three different channels. I haven't had any interference on any of the channels, and I do live in an apartment building. The transmitter has a line out jack and a headphone jack, which made it easy to connect to my PC. I also thought that they were pretty generous with the cables. It came with multiple cables that allow you to connect to various jacks or stereo plugs. You can also use two receivers with one transmitter.

What would be the advantage of this vs. connecting a Bluetooth dongle to your PC (or using its built-in Bluetooth) and using a Bluetooth speaker, or a Bluetooth receiver connected to a wired speaker/audio system?

These look really cool.
Too bad I don't really have worthwhile speakers for it, or else I would have snagged one for myself.

gantt wrote:What would be the advantage of this vs. connecting a Bluetooth dongle to your PC (or using its built-in Bluetooth) and using a Bluetooth speaker, or a Bluetooth receiver connected to a wired speaker/audio system?

Bluetooth has a more limited range. Class 2 devices only work up to about 30 feet. Class 1 devices work up to 100 feet from each other, but require a lot more power and are less common. I haven't tried these soundcasters, but music via Bluetooth sounds like a 96kbps mp3 or worse.

same thing i thought wow

cg413 wrote:I got a few sets of these on here last a little while back. They worked very nicely, through walls, the length of my house. I hooked one end up to my computer, and the other end up to my television, actually! Because I don't have any powered speakers. But this works well, since I have a TV in several rooms.

You will need powered speakers, but other than that, it worked flawlessly! Love em. Great way to listen to Pandora without having to move my computer around.

That's what I hoped I could use them for too. I have Sirius also but when I'm at home, Pandora wins hands down. Its soo much better. But, this is sold out now....

I dusted off my old Acoustic Research wireless headphones, and I can get it to tune great in the office, but once I go into the living room and start moving around, I get some occasional blips & it scares the hell out of me for a split second.

Damn damn damn...

sold out already? wouldn't this have better saved for a wootoff instead of just wasting 22 hours of a sold out woot?

munboy wrote:sold out already? wouldn't this have better saved for a wootoff instead of just wasting 22 hours of a sold out woot?

Yeah...

bogawoot wrote:If you have a laptop and a 1/8" to RCA cable you can achieve much better results by plugging he 1/8" end of that cable into your headphone out on the laptop and the other RCA end of that cable into an aux/cd/tape input on your stereo receiver.
Play your laptop music directly into your stereo system.

Honestly, this is quite a bulky device requiring 4 separate power outlets for their 2 power supplies plus 2 power supplies for powered speakers, not to mention all the rca and speaker cables... All this required to save you a 150 foot cable? cuz I bet there's nare a 350 foot space this will transmit through.

So, lets see if someone can help me out here. Say you have a laptop, those jacks are what, 2.5mm? And you have a Sony home theater receiver, which I think has a jack of 3.5mm. Couldn't you get a 2.5mm male to 3.5mm female adapter, plug that into the headphone jack into the laptop, then get a 3.5mm extension cable (both male) then connect the laptop to the receiver that way?

I think all of our aux, etc., RCA's are currently full...

Advice is appreciated, I'm a female whose hobby isn't audio connections and the like.

Thanks!

SurfKahuna wrote:2.4GHz devices, such as wireless local area networks (WLANs), typically use the Industrial, Scientific, & Medical band (ISM band). This band uses 11 channels in the US (there are actually 14, but the FCC mandates that we only use 11 here). These channels range from 2.412GHz to 2.62GHz.

Most wireless networks can be adjusted to operate on a different channel, thereby negating interference to these speakers. Since these speakers cannot adjust wireless channels, they most likely operate on channel 6 (2.437GHz). If you have control over the WLAN setup, you can most likely change the transmitting channel and reduce interference so that your WLAN and these devices play nicely. However, if you cannot administer the WLAN, then you may have a problem if you have confliction.

- A few words from a technical trainer at a wireless router company. *giggles*! My job was finally worth something to the WOOT! community!

BTW, anyone else see Obama play basketball? It's weird watching a presidential hopeful play basketball. Just weird, not bad ;-).

what he said...
however, I do not have control over it. In our housing statement it said devices using the 2.4GHz range was not allowed. so, it would seem that they should...just to make it convenient for everyone....

spun4621 wrote:So, lets see if someone can help me out here. Say you have a laptop, those jacks are what, 2.5mm? And you have a Sony home theater receiver, which I think has a jack of 3.5mm. Couldn't you get a 2.5mm male to 3.5mm female adapter, plug that into the headphone jack into the laptop, then get a 3.5mm extension cable (both male) then connect the laptop to the receiver that way?

I think all of our aux, etc., RCA's are currently full...

Advice is appreciated, I'm a female whose hobby isn't audio connections and the like.

Thanks!

The headphone jack on laptops are 3.5mm, and if your home theater's amp has a 3.5mm aux. input, all you need is a long enough cable with male-male 3.5mm ends to reach the two.

Most home theater and sound system receivers or amps don't have a 3.5mm aux input port, tho. I've seen mic inputs on some for various purposes, and most of those are 3.5mm. Is that what you meant? That would work fine.

Jawnskeel wrote:I'd like a set of speakers with a subwoofer please llo. I need to start buying things from woot. I can now that I finally made enough money to build my pc, now just need stuff to waste more money on

http://www.etronics.com/p-1174-altec-lansing-121i-3-piece-music-gaming-speaker-system.aspx?dp=F2C20202E6225253C3836323A357037363732313A313&svbname=403&bname=GoogleBase

peek dat!

For anyone that has a home theatre system or just a good stereo...I love the logitech music anywhere wireless system...use it every day...and I got it on WOOT!!!!!

TallThin1 wrote:For anyone that has a home theatre system or just a good stereo...I love the logitech music anywhere wireless system...use it every day...and I got it on WOOT!!!!!

Yeah, anything like that would work for the woman who wanted sound from her laptop to her home theater, and she wouldn't have to have a long cable between the two. x10.com makes a good one, too, for cheap, e.g., I think it lists for $39.99, but they have it on sale all the time for $29.99.

But then again, if her laptop is fairly close to her stereo/amp/receiver, then the cable idea is best...at least it's by-far the cheapest solution, and the most simple...*if*, that is, she indeed has a 3.5mm mic or 3.5mm aux input port on her home theater?

gantt wrote:What would be the advantage of this vs. connecting a Bluetooth dongle to your PC (or using its built-in Bluetooth) and using a Bluetooth speaker, or a Bluetooth receiver connected to a wired speaker/audio system?

No advantage whatsoever. For the application/use you describe, your way would probably be significantly less cost, too...especially if you already have BT dongles and stuff.

diletante wrote:The headphone jack on laptops are 3.5mm, and if your home theater's amp has a 3.5mm aux. input, all you need is a long enough cable with male-male 3.5mm ends to reach the two.

Most home theater and sound system receivers or amps don't have a 3.5mm aux input port, tho. I've seen mic inputs on some for various purposes, and most of those are 3.5mm. Is that what you meant? That would work fine.

See what I mean? I'm trying to say that the headphone jack on the laptop is the most standard sized one (at least to me). MP3 players, cellphone jack, etc. The one on the receiver is a larger diameter...so either way I need some sort of adapter. What size is the larger one then?

Also, maybe some techies can help out with this...

I have a D-Link wireless media player, DSM-520 http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=438

Anyone else out there have this or an idea if I can get internet radio to stream on it? If I could, I wouldn't need to to do this whole laptop rigging project.

Thanks again. I love my woot boys.

munboy wrote:sold out already? wouldn't this have better saved for a wootoff instead of just wasting 22 hours of a sold out woot?

I am unsure what has happened here myself. I am hopeful that there is more quantity of these in stock and that the sale sold out prematurely, but it could be that something happened behind the scenes that I'm not aware of. Will update with more info as available, but if you were interested in these, please swing back by in a few hours to see if they might be back for sale.

I am so sad.The speakers soldout at 2Am. Iwas still sleeping. I do not remember there ever being such an early sellout! Please find some more!

I bought them and they suck. very limited distance. Do not have anywhere near the range of a wifi router, will not go thru a masonry wall, I live in an older home with thick plaster walls. Maybe they work better in cardboard boxes. To get them to work, they have to be about 20 feet apart, in which case i could have just hard wired, In addition definitely low-fi signal.

CAN YOU USE THESE TO GET T.V. AUDIO IN ANOTHER ROOM?

YIPPY! They're back! More to sell! I'm in!

imagol wrote:I am so sad.The speakers soldout at 2Am. Iwas still sleeping. I do not remember there ever being such an early sellout! Please find some more!

You are in luck, we do have more.

Snapster wrote:I am unsure what has happened here myself. I am hopeful that there is more quantity of these in stock and that the sale sold out prematurely, but it could be that something happened behind the scenes that I'm not aware of. Will update with more info as available, but if you were interested in these, please swing back by in a few hours to see if they might be back for sale.

sorry for those of you arriving between 2 and 6am central today when this sale showed sold out - wootbot decided to cut out early on us and we had to track him down at the bar. can't find reliable checkout help these days.

My wireless LAN never works well with anything 2.4 Ghz around.

Does anyone have the same problem?

whitehatsforhire wrote:My wireless LAN never works well with anything 2.4 Ghz around.

Does anyone have the same problem?

the FHSS signal tech is the key feature to these - quality audio and interuption avoidance - we've not had any reports of wifi conflict, though I'll leave it to previous buyers to confirm that. really, this is one of those cases where their marketing department should have actually overruled the engineers.. the engineers are technically right on the technology choice but it's too tough a sales pitch. in any case - that's how some nice things end up here cheap

I got these during the woot-off as well and they didn't work. I contacted Soundcast and after a bit of troubleshooting, they gave me an RMA and had me ship them back. They are sending me their iCast system as a replacement since they no longer carry the system woot is selling. The iCast system will "supposedly" do the same thing but it has an iPod cradle on the transmitter side. I have yet to receive the new one, but it should be here soon.

What would you do?

Since woot does have more, should I buy today's woot?

- OR -

I have a laptop, wireless internet, and a sony home receiver. The jack on the sony is larger (what size?) than the laptop's jack. If I got an adapter, I could connect the two & stream internet radio.

- OR -

I have a D-Link wireless media player, DSM-520:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=438

Anyone else out there have this or an idea if I can get internet radio to stream on it? (from Pandora) If I could, I wouldn't need to to do this whole laptop rigging project.


Thanks for your help guys. Its appreciated.

bsGoober wrote:I got these during the woot-off as well and they didn't work. I contacted Soundcast and after a bit of troubleshooting, they gave me an RMA and had me ship them back. They are sending me their iCast system as a replacement since they no longer carry the system woot is selling. The iCast system will "supposedly" do the same thing but it has an iPod cradle on the transmitter side. I have yet to receive the new one, but it should be here soon.

see - no wifi conflict ;)

thanks for the report back - bummer to hear about the doa.

Do you think these could be used through an exterior wall about 30 feet away?
Wanted to use them with Bose cd player and place under eaves on patio.
Whatta ya think?

AnOldGuy wrote:I am hoping to throw the signal from a DVD player on one side of my room to the input on my stereo on the other side of the room. Think this well work??

this is one of the expected uses of this device. To take the headphone or audio out of an audio source and inject it into a stereo or headset at another spot or two in the house without having to run a wire between those two locations.
For people who are whining about it not being truly wireless because there are wall wart wires, you must be totally confused when you go to Olive Garden and ask for the never ending bowl of soup! The audio signal is transmitted wirelessly from one unit to the other.

hondotank wrote:Do you think these could be used through an exterior wall about 30 feet away?
Wanted to use them with Bose cd player and place under eaves on patio.
Whatta ya think?

yes, unless you have construction material such that there is a wire grid of chicken wire to allow a mortared exterior applied to the house. This would probably prevent the transmission from being successful as it would block the signal.

Any feedback on the quality of the sound or the decibel level it produces?

spun4621 wrote:What would you do?

Since woot does have more, should I buy today's woot?

- OR -

I have a laptop, wireless internet, and a sony home receiver. The jack on the sony is larger (what size?) than the laptop's jack. If I got an adapter, I could connect the two & stream internet radio.

- OR -

I have a D-Link wireless media player, DSM-520:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=438

Anyone else out there have this or an idea if I can get internet radio to stream on it? (from Pandora) If I could, I wouldn't need to to do this whole laptop rigging project.


Thanks for your help guys. Its appreciated.

I believe the jack you are referring to is a headphone out jack on your receiver since you said that your RCA inputs were full. So that wouldn't work as far as getting sound into your receiver, you would need to have a free RCA jack and a stereo mini to RCA cable going from your headphone out (stereo mini) jack on your computer to the stereo. If however you have the D-Link wireless media player already hooked up to your stereo you should be able to stream any media off of your computer to your stereo through that. (what are you currently using the d-link for?)

TELEPHONELADY60120 wrote:CAN YOU USE THESE TO GET T.V. AUDIO IN ANOTHER ROOM?

yes, you would most likely need to get an RCA to Stereo adapter cable.

dack69 wrote:I believe the jack you are referring to is a headphone out jack on your receiver since you said that your RCA inputs were full. So that wouldn't work as far as getting sound into your receiver, you would need to have a free RCA jack and a stereo mini to RCA cable going from your headphone out (stereo mini) jack on your computer to the stereo. If however you have the D-Link wireless media player already hooked up to your stereo you should be able to stream any media off of your computer to your stereo through that. (what are you currently using the d-link for?)

Thanks for replying!

It makes perfect sense that I wouldn't be able to connect the headphone jack from the laptop into the headphone jack into the receiver. Had a brain lapse, I guess. So, RCA (from receiver) to mini-stereo (to laptop)? Feels like I've did this once on our other receiver, but I used the headphone jack in the front & my laptop...how did I do that?

My main goal is to be able to stream internet radio in the living room (from the office). The d-link is out in the living room, also, and hooked up to the surround and the receiver. We use it for watching movies that we've downloaded or for listening to music on our hard drives, so that we don't have to burn a ton of cd's.

Isn't D-link restricted to certain businesses? (Napster, etc..)

Sorry for such the long post..
Thanks again,

Jessica

spun4621 wrote:What would you do?

Since woot does have more, should I buy today's woot?

- OR -

I have a laptop, wireless internet, and a sony home receiver. The jack on the sony is larger (what size?) than the laptop's jack. If I got an adapter, I could connect the two & stream internet radio.

- OR -

I have a D-Link wireless media player, DSM-520:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=438

Anyone else out there have this or an idea if I can get internet radio to stream on it? (from Pandora) If I could, I wouldn't need to to do this whole laptop rigging project.


Thanks for your help guys. Its appreciated.

this device will take an audio out from most any kind of device (ipod, mp3 player, computer) and transmits it to its receiver which is then connected to a set of speakers or audio in on a stereo unit. if you have a device that can get the internet radio, you can attach the transmitter this to that device and listen to the broadcast in another location around your house, as long as the transmitter and receiver can connect.