PRESS RELEASE
14th February, London - for immediate release - Award-winning digital music specialist, Audioengine has introduced its new W3 Premium Wireless Audio Adapter, allowing you to play all your music wirelessly from any audio device or computer to speakers and systems around your home. It's also a great way of making your subwoofer wireless - or your surround-sound speakers.
Unlike many wireless audio systems, the upgraded W3 provides CD-quality stereo sound with no compression. It costs just £125 for a sender/receiver pack, with the ability to add extra receivers - creating a simple multi-room music system - for £75 each.
What makes the W3 special:
- Easy setup, connects in seconds, no computer required
- Mac or PC plug-n-play; no drivers to install or network setup
- Send wireless audio to multiple rooms or zones
- Compact; no batteries required
- 100ft (30m) range with no dropouts or interference
- CD-quality stereo with no reduction in audio quality
- Plays all music formats from any media player
- Great for subwoofers and surround sound speakers, too
"We think of W3 as a Swiss Army knife for wireless audio - and now with even more truly useful features," says Audioengine director, Brady Bargenquast. "You can use W3 as a wireless USB DAC to send music from your computer to any stereo system or add W3 to your home cinema as a wireless link to your subwoofer or powered rear speakers. Setup is fast and you can add extra W3 wireless receivers, which are available separately"
How the W3 works
Think of the Audioengine W3 as a wireless 16-bit USB DAC as well as a wireless audio link. It handles USB audio up to 16 bits/48KHz with no compression, as well as analogue audio via a 3.5mm minijack.
The £125 W3 consists of a Sender and Receiver. The Sender transmits audio from your computer through USB audio or from any product with 3.5mm mini-jack or RCA audio outputs. The other side of W3, the Receiver, connects audio to any product with mini-jack or RCA audio connectors.
Power for the Sender and Receiver is provided from either a USB computer port, from the included USB AC power adapter, or from any other USB power source (such as an iPhone charger, for example). Another USB power source is the Audioengine A5+ powered speakers, which are equipped with a USB charger on rear of the left speaker.
The W3 Sender can transmit to up to three Receivers simultaneously - enabling you to set up a simple multi-room or multi-zone system quickly and at low cost: additional Receivers are just £75 each.
The upgraded UK edition of the W3 also provides greater resistance to interference from other wi-fi devices - plus other ‘noisy' devices around your home, from cordless phones to microwaves. In short, it's wireless that works.
The new upgraded Audioengine W3 is now available in the UK, priced £125 for a twin Sender/Receiver Pack, and £75 per additional W3R Receiver.
About Audioengine
Audioengine designs and builds innovative audio products with all your music in mind. We offer award-winning sound, high-quality materials and truly useful features.
Audioengine was founded in 2002 by music-loving professionals with more than 36 years of combined experience in the pro- and consumer audio industries - working at companies as diverse as Harman/Kardon, Gibson Guitar, Alesis Studio Electronics, Escient, and Apple Computer. After several successful years producing pro-audio studio monitors, the Audioengine team added consumer audio into the mix - and the rest is Award-winning history.
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