Utterly wireless subwoofer? meaning it runs on batteries?

As a sound guy, I find this deeply offensive. But it kind of represents what they're going for; families, rather than technophiles... people who want to sidestep the inconvenience of dealing with entertainment technology and just get something that does it all with as little hassle or micromanagement as possible.

Well, good luck to them. As an aside, I have a niggling feeling that this is going absolutely nowhere... now watch me be hilariously wrong in 3 years.

While I hear and agree with most of what you are saying, they aren't making this for you or me. Their bullet points are problems that people like me like to solve. How the run the wires cleanly, how to get the best sound, etc. This isn't for us. This is for my mom.

I think it all sounds great!
Except for maybe the wireless speaker (if it is on batteries).

She pulls it out of the side, which makes me wonder if it doesn't have a slot, making it recharge while it's connected. You just pull it out for movie night.

And ya (@Gallowflak), Sometimes families use TV, DVD & MP3. what was your point?
Example: As an artist, I don't mind the idea of grinding my own pigments to make my paints, but I don't expect the average person to bother. It's the same with tech. Why would most people bother? Confusing tech is a FAIL in my book. If I have to go and set up one more family's surround-sound or program one more super-remote - I'm gonna loose it

>> ^Sagemind:

I think it all sounds great!
Except for maybe the wireless speaker (if it is on batteries).
She pulls it out of the side, which makes me wonder if it doesn't have a slot, making it recharge while it's connected. You just pull it out for movie night.
And ya (@Gallowflak), Sometimes families use TV, DVD & MP3. what was your point?
Example: As an artist, I don't mind the idea of grinding my own pigments to make my paints, but I don't expect the average person to bother. It's the same with tech. Why would most people bother? Confusing tech is a FAIL in my book. If I have to go and set up one more family's surround-sound or program one more super-remote - I'm gonna loose it


I'm not sure I really had a point... just that, as CrushBug notes, this obviously isn't for people who get a kick out of technology* and have an active interest in it.

And when I said "as a sound guy", I was mostly joking and being masturbatory, but I'm sick to death of shitty goddamn speaker systems.

*(or at least entertainment tech/hardware)

I believe they have an entertainment center similar to this that you can put your own peripherals in and hides the wiring. With a little bit of work you can even hide your surround sound speaker cable. But, it is work...



I just have 8 gauge wires along my baseboard. Like, the honey-badger, I just don't give a fuck.

I'm not a fan of 'all in one' solutions. What if you just want to replace the blu-ray player? How do you do that?

Or, then you tire of the tv, but still like the stand etc. Can you get any other tv and have it fit on there? Or are you stuck with only using their tvs on that setup?

Not saying it's a terrible idea, and I do like the idea of no mess... but I'd have to see how this all fits together.

And my setup is pretty neat (unless you look behind the cabinet), and it's 5.1. Sure, I had to climb in the ceiling and do creative wiring to get sound to some rear speakers, but they are now hung up high on the back wall and you don't even notice them visually.

Kind of like the Macintosh of flat-screens.