Another review of Rocketfish RF-WHTIB… thorough, appreciates value

This PHTG guy has written a super-thorough review of the Rocketfish RF-WHTIB Wireless Rear Speaker Kit. His results again indicate that wireless performance was excellent, and coexistance with WLAN was acceptable.

We have a WLAN using 802.11b/g/pre-N gear; the sender unit was just a few feet away from the main router. There is also a wireless signal booster in another part of the house; this was just 30 feet away from the receiver unit when conducting the long range test. The use of the Rocketfish wireless speaker system did not affect in any way the performance of the WLAN, and the network speed was up as usual.

Equally important… The Rocketfish wireless speaker system did not show any signs of interference; it just worked fine.

Again, rock on.

HTGuys give Rocketfish RF-WHTIB strong reviews

Check it out here. Direct link to podcast here. Generally a positive review. Great to hear they are pleased with the wireless. The most telling quote…

The system uses the 2.4 GHz wireless range to transmit the audio signal. In other systems we’ve used, there’s been a ton of interference. We didn’t get any with the Rocketfish… We’ve used systems in the past that would start popping like a bag of Orville Redenbachers when you ran the microwave, answered a phone call or looked at it funny. Nothing like that with the Rocketfish.

Rock on. This is pretty impressive stuff considering these guys typically review gear that costs a lot more than $99.

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Gartenberg: “Wicked Cool in Oregon”

Michael Gartenberg, Analyst for Jupiter Research hints at what’s to come. It’s just the beginning folks.

I myself am in Hong Kong today, and it is far from “wicked cool.” Wicked hot and humid more fits the bill.

Direct2Dell blog

My good friend, John Hull, runs Linux development activities over at Dell. His recent post on Dell’s Ubuntu offering is a great example of Dell’s latest efforts in direct relationships with their customers. For a company that has had issues scaling their support, it is nice to know their presence on the web’s best one-to-many communication medium is alive and well.

Direct2Dell has also been the source of breaking news covered by Engadget and Gizmodo in recent days. This is great execution of controlling one’s company’s messaging in the channels that give a damn.

Brave Rocketfish (RF-WHTIB) Early Adoptors… listen up!

First of all… THANKS! As an early adopter myself, I respect your purchasing mindset, enthusiasm to apply innovative solutions, and your willingness to subject yourself to early kinks. Your input on this blog and on others has been extremely valuable to the innovative teams involved in bringing this product to market.

You are brave souls and thankfully more forgiving, and more collaborative than your typical customer.

To anyone with the “hum” issue mentioned by a few commentators on this blog, please see the comment from Digitaldel (here), there is help for you.

Not all home theater amps are created equal, so some architectures did exhibit this unpleasant issue. But it was caught, and because the end users have been quite enthusiastic to apply this solution to many more AV platforms than expected, we’ve been able to catch an issue, and are committed to making sure this problem does not impact current & future customers any longer.

If you like the concept, stick with Rocketfish, don’t return the device, just work with them on the issue and fulfill your duties as the brave and valuable early adopter!!!

Conan at Intel. Good stuff.

Wireless Audio. What is it good for?

I am in the position to actually influence what kinds of wireless audio gadgets the mass consumer can have access to… as my blog seems to be gaining some readership, and particularly by those in search of wireless audio gear, I thought it may be prudent and fun to ask you all to give me some ideas.

I talk to key OEMs quite often, ones who have interest in wireless audio links and making cool new applications, and every so often some of them ask me (us) what kinds of features make sense.  Afterall, few marketing orgs have spent the last 3.5 years dreaming of ways to help consumers take advantage of good wireless audio technology.

Please use the comment engine here to tell Alive Matters what kinds of wireless audio gear you need.  Tell us what problem(s) you are trying to solve, and how you want to connect and use wireless audio.  If possible, I can hopefully give you good news — that your wants will be satisfied shortly. Or, perhaps you can give us some good ideas, and help us help our customers give you something you want.

Our wireless audio technology works, is cheap, and sounds great.  Does that strike a chord?

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Mother of all business trips coming to an end

For me, this was easily the longest business trip I’ve had.  Probably one of the more interesting as well.  Since March 27th, I’ve roughly split time between Hong Kong and Tokyo.  About half the days in Hong Kong included a day trip in and out of Shenzhen.  All in all, we kicked off a few new customer designs, and furthered our engagements with a couple new, key, manufacturing partners.  Momentum is starting to build in the marketplace for our products, which means it won’t be long before I am back again.  I’ll probably have some time back in the states to recover from jetlag, and catch up on my mail/bills/expense reports.  Then it’ll be another tour back in these parts.

I can feel the weather starting to transition out of Spring and into Summer.  HK is sticky once again, and Tokyo is on the brink of monsoon season.  This was the perfect time of year to be travelling throughout Asia, probably won’t be able to say the same about next month.