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Wireless Bluetooth 2.1 Speakers
Sandy Cheeks writes "The Saitek A-250 Wireless 2.1 Speaker System made a stong impression when showcased at this year's CES with its sleek styling and rather impressive performance... The compact boomerang shaped device can provide 2.1 stereo sound up to 30 meters away from a source PC, and can alternatively be used hard wired to any other audio source with an 1/8" stereo jack output."
Not necessarily. I have mine set about 10 meters away from the transmitter, and they work fine. And they are RCA speakers!
Simpy
For now, the headphone market seems something like this: wireless, portable, stylish. Pick two.
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A free and OSS proggie for computer/cellphone Bluetooth stuff is Float's Mobile Agent
I run my computer from my phone with it
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The problem comes with energy density though. In order to use standard electronics, especially speakers, you'd probably need a microwave beam, not something you want to stand in the way of, even from a comfort standpoint. What you'd need is some sort of super low energy device like RFID, which can be powered by lower intensity EM waves.
So you either end up with being boiled slowly or low output speakers, and if you're spending that much for speakers, you probably want high quality.
What I'd much rather like to see is a standardized 2.5/3.5mm bluetooth jack so that any device can output audio to bluetooth headsets.
I don't get it.
You are completely an utterly wrong on this point. Google for "a2dp."
I worked at a big-box electronics store over Christmas and we carried this model. I was able to get just about to the other side of the store before encountering any drop in sound quality. The first thing you tend to lose if the control of your media player, go a bit furthur and the sound starts to get pretty choppy. This was operating in a completely open space so I'm not sure how it would do when you start going through walls and floors. But I was still impressed. We had quite a number of other wireless items running in the store (several phones, networks, printers, etc.) and it seemed to do fine with other interference. I'm not sure they were quite worth the $150 CAD we were charging for them but a fun product nonetheless.
The advertised wireless range is not accurate, I get sound with lot of hiccups even 5 feet aways, and then 10 feets away I get good quality, so the sound quality varies a lot and the speakers are kind of picky. Also the 24 battery life must not be true. I use rechargable batteries, that may be 6 months old, but they die pretty soon while being inside the speakers (9-11 hours). The one thing that really annoys me is that I HATE the fact that the remote controls doesnt work unless the application is opened and is the current window. If for some reason something takes over (like screen saver) they wont work. That sucks, every multimedia keyboards that I know can pause and play music even if the music player is minimized and youre doing something else.
Maybe not. 1 good AA battery is 2.5AH @ 1.5V = 3.7Wh. 4 of these makes 14.8Wh. Over 24 hours, these batteries would last with a 617mA load. The amplifier draws probably no more than 70mA, so it's possible that the speakers would produce something resembling sound for 24 hours on one set of NiMH batteries. I'm not sure how audio power correlates with electrical power... but I do know that most desktop listening is under 1W (of audio power)... so, like I said, the quoted figure is possible.
My other car is first.
Nowhere in the article, nor on Saitek's website, is there any indication that this speaker set uses the Bluetooth wireless protocol. In the article there is the parenthetical quip "think bluetooth" that is used when describing how it connects to the PC, but the device is not a Bluetooth audio client, and Saitek makes no such claim anywhere on the product website.
Edith Keeler Must Die
It means the speakers are made out of rare earth (neodymium) magnets, and, as such, can pack a stronger magnet into a smaller place. If you haven't played with a strong rare earth magnet, you dont know what you're missing...makes hard drive magnets look like toys.