
The difference between a high quality wireless signal and that transmitted over a wire is starting to get to the point where you have to work quite hard to find the difference. The gap is a lot narrower than it used to be. And while you could still make a pretty convincing argument that wired speakers deliver better audio fidelity, especially when extremely high-quality components are involved, you look a bit foolish if you denied that wireless systems weren't starting to sound pretty incredible themselves. More data equals a higher fidelity, and so for a long time, wireless speakers just couldn’t cut it.

It was much, much easier to transmit greater amounts of electrical data down a physical wire than it was to send it on a wireless signal. The accepted knowledge, ever since wireless speakers first became available, was that wired speakers simply offered better sound quality. | The Master Switch Comparing Sound Quality Between Wireless and Wired Speakers The Audioengine HDP6s we used in our blind test.


Ever since features like Bluetooth and WiFi became commonplace, manufacturers have been tinkering, slowly freeing us from the chaos of wires and ceiling speakers and making their products better and better. Wireless speakers have become the quiet juggernaut of the audio industry.
