Wireless Speaker Fun

When in doubt, start with a joke:

What do you call an underwater dog?

A sub-woofer.

Well, I like it. But it does bring to mind my “technical problem of the week”. On Friday I was seduced by a massively reduced massive sound system that I could bung underneath my telly to boost the sound a bit. On Saturday I gave the system a quick test and having found that it seemed OK I then drilled holes and fixed things to walls. Today I discovered that it doesn’t work properly. The sound from the sub-woofer (see joke above) was intermittent. My least-favourite kind of fault, and usually the hardest to fix. Oh well. That explains the reduced price.

The sub-woofer is the speaker that brings all the crunchy bass sounds to the party and without it you haven’t got much of a party. And with a sub-woofer for only half the time you have a party that makes you feel seasick after a while. So I did what any sane person would do. I did a quick search of the Internets. Fortunately, this was one of those increasingly rare occasions where my search took me to a useful answer. Apparently the wireless connection to the subwoofer can be upset by proximity to Wi-Fi hardware. Like the access point I had right next to the TV. I moved things around a bit and the woofer now sounds great all the time. So, if you’ve got wireless sound stuff which isn’t behaving you might like to check for interfering signals.