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I want your take on the vocopro air-net unit. Yes, I'm looking forward to getting the 1/4" adapter to work with the AT wireless but I'm really starting to see more need/applications where I need distributed, wireless speakers. We'd be looking at some serious change if I have to re-buy an AT receiver for each speaker, not to mention having to custom-wire the transmitter to accept a wall-wart for power.

I'm wondering if you've seen or used an air-net enough to form an opinion and wouldn't mind commenting here.
 
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send him an email check in his details as I think it is ben at nlfxpro dot com.:sqwink:
rickryan.com said:
I want your take on the vocopro air-net unit. Yes, I'm looking forward to getting the 1/4" adapter to work with the AT wireless but I'm really starting to see more need/applications where I need distributed, wireless speakers. We'd be looking at some serious change if I have to re-buy an AT receiver for each speaker, not to mention having to custom-wire the transmitter to accept a wall-wart for power.

I'm wondering if you've seen or used an air-net enough to form an opinion and wouldn't mind commenting here.
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I agree with JT, but either way, I'd love to hear what Ben's thoughts are.
 
rickryan.com said:
I want your take on the vocopro air-net unit. Yes, I'm looking forward to getting the 1/4" adapter to work with the AT wireless but I'm really starting to see more need/applications where I need distributed, wireless speakers. We'd be looking at some serious change if I have to re-buy an AT receiver for each speaker, not to mention having to custom-wire the transmitter to accept a wall-wart for power.

I'm wondering if you've seen or used an air-net enough to form an opinion and wouldn't mind commenting here.
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Well... I have the same opinion of the air-net that I do of VocoPros other wireless products. It is designed to meet a price point and engineering is always a series of compromises.

Beyond that, my biggest concerns with it are that it operates in the 2.4Ghz range. You are probably aware that there are 13 wifi bands, but have you ever noticed that just about every router you buy comes preconfigured to either 1, 6 or 11. That's because those bands are the only ones that don't overlap. I am increasingly concerned with the growing number of wifi enabled portable devices. I would probably shy away from a 2.4Ghz unit, but that's just me. Others are probably using these with great success, and who would I be to argue with them.

Ben
 
NLFX Pro said:
Well... I have the same opinion of the air-net that I do of VocoPros other wireless products. It is designed to meet a price point and engineering is always a series of compromises.

Beyond that, my biggest concerns with it are that it operates in the 2.4Ghz range. You are probably aware that there are 13 wifi bands, but have you ever noticed that just about every router you buy comes preconfigured to either 1, 6 or 11. That's because those bands are the only ones that don't overlap. I am increasingly concerned with the growing number of wifi enabled portable devices. I would probably shy away from a 2.4Ghz unit, but that's my me. Others are probably using these with great success, and who would I be to argue with them.

Ben
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That was my initial reaction also, 2.4ghz? The little feature of being able to switch frequencies at the transmitter though intrigues me. If you get to a venue and have interference, just change frequencies and the receivers follow automatically. Too cool, at least on the concept. The other issues I have is drop-outs. On wireless, I don't really care if it drops signal so much as I do that the receiver doesn't fritz out and pump all that white noise into the speakers. As long as it'll just squelch, I can live with it (somewhat).

Oddly enough, my sennheiser, which supposedly has the pilot tone technology that prevents this from happening, fritzed out a couple of months ago at a venue. Guess I need to get around to re-checking how its setup..........
 
rickryan.com said:
That was my initial reaction also, 2.4ghz? The little feature of being able to switch frequencies at the transmitter though intrigues me. If you get to a venue and have interference, just change frequencies and the receivers follow automatically. Too cool, at least on the concept.
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2.4GHz competes with not only wifi, but also microwave ovens, cordless phones, baby monitors and bluetooth! Thankfully most people are realizing that bluetooth headsets sound like crap and they aren't as popular as they were last year but you still see people walking around with one stuck in their ear. Someone with one of those gets between your mike and receiver and who knows what will come out of the speakers???

The "frequency switching" is actually "channel switching" moving very slightly in frequency. I wouldn't rely on that to get far enough out of the way of interference.

It may work fine when you setup, but might not function or be random noise during an event. I'd have a UHF backup ready just in case.


Scott
 
Scott Harris said:
2.4GHz competes with not only wifi, but also microwave ovens, cordless phones, baby monitors and bluetooth! Thankfully most people are realizing that bluetooth headsets sound like crap and they aren't as popular as they were last year but you still see people walking around with one stuck in their ear. Someone with one of those gets between your mike and receiver and who knows what will come out of the speakers???

The "frequency switching" is actually "channel switching" moving very slightly in frequency. I wouldn't rely on that to get far enough out of the way of interference.

It may work fine when you setup, but might not function or be random noise during an event. I'd have a UHF backup ready just in case.


Scott
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I've got an AT 2000-series lav mic and have an adapter coming from Ben so I'll probably try that in the next few weeks. My only beef is having to buy an extra receiver for each remote speaker and afraid that'd gonna be a bit costly, not to mention, will multiple receiver work with a single transmitter (if on the same channel)?
 
rickryan.com said:
I've got an AT 2000-series lav mic and have an adapter coming from Ben so I'll probably try that in the next few weeks. My only beef is having to buy an extra receiver for each remote speaker and afraid that'd gonna be a bit costly, not to mention, will multiple receiver work with a single transmitter (if on the same channel)?
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Yes, you can drive multiple receivers with one transmitter... I would keep it to as few as necessary though.

Ben
 
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