Direct-to-consumer marketer Aperion Audio plans year-end shipments of a wireless home-theater system incorporating Summit Wireless technology to delivers 24-bit uncompressed audio to active speakers.Aperion will demonstrate its product at the CEDIA Expo in Atlanta, having shown a preproduction prototype at last year's show.
The system is the $2,499 Intimus 4T Summit Wireless 5.1 home-theater speaker system, which consists of five active speakers and a powered subwoofer, all with Summit wireless transceiver built in. The speakers talk to an included wireless audio hub, which replaces a traditional A/V receiver and incorporates surround-sound decoders and HDMI, coax, optical and analog connections to TVs and other audio sources. The system is expandable to 7.1.
The underlying technology, developed by fables semiconductor company Summit Semiconductor of Hillsboro, Ore., is promoted as delivering 7.1-channel sound quality that's "virtually indistinguishable" from wired quality. Summit promotes the technology as overcoming the sound quality, interference, latency and cost challenges associated with other wireless technologies designed for multichannel home theaters. Its speaker-level, speaker-delay and phase controls are said to be so flexible that they can be used to focus the audio sweet spot into the corner of a room where a sectional couch might be placed.
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