Audiophile Audition: Summit Wireless Products Receive FCC Certification

The first consumer products to be approved by the FCC for wireless operation in the uncongested 5GHz radio frequency band are the Summit Wireless Home Theater HDMI Audio Hub and Speaker Modules. The Summit Home Theater System is being manufactured by Hansong Technologies of China, and Aperion Audio is utilizing the wireless speaker technology on some of their loudspeakers. The present 2.4GHz ISM band has been become crowded and congested with signals from many different Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cordless phone systems.  This can result in audio dropouts, crackling and pops or worse. Therefore the FCC and other standards groups around the world have opened up the new 5.2-5.8GHz UNII band spectrum, with up to 21 new channels.

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