PC Wireless Digital Box 1.0

Many people today are downloading and storing their music in their computers. They have many APE, WAV or Flac files in their hard drives. The problem is that most people's computers are not located next to their audio/stereo system. Our Digital Box 1.0 solves this problem. With a 50 meter radius, you no longer need to run long cables or relocate your computer to listen to your stored files. The small Digital Box 1.0 can be set up next to your audio system and a wireless signal sent out through your computers' USB Port to the Box 1.0. Our Box 1.0 has no or very little signal loss it will out perform almost any similar product on the market.

The DAC in most computers are of poor quality and therefore poor sound. Our Box 1.0 has its own high quality SPDIF Digital output DAC with linear technology. This can connect directly to our new consonance CD player which has a digital input. The Box 1.0 also has regular RCA analog outputs which uses the linear technology DAC output.

Works with PC or MAC.

First customer feedback.

Just thought I'd give you an update on the Wireless Box. Overall, I think it is just fantastic. It is the piece of audio equipment that brings everything together and it works and sounds great.

From the start;

It is a lot smaller than it appears on the website, at most it is A5 size which means it can easily sit out of the way and not be seen. Although they have tried, it is not easy to make a router like box with aerials look good.
The first issue is that the transformer is a wall wart with US connectors. I think it states 120-230 volts so it is possibly outside of our spec. It is also 24 volts which is unusual. This means that you won't easily find a replacement. (Let me know if you think I should change it)
The USB transmitter that fits in the computer is chunky. I used a short (10cm) USB extension cord and this made it a lot easier to place it out of harms way.
Connecting it up was very easy, there were no settings I had to change or anything. I just plugged it all in and it worked. (Box to Pre via analog, USB transmitter in computer). This was using Windows 7 operating system.
The box has analog and digital outputs. In my case I used the analog outputs and therefore the internal DAC.
Using iTunes or any other application on the computer I was able to use the computers volume controls. This is very useful.
And here was on of the best bits - Having never used the iPhone remote application before, I clicked on it and within 30 seconds I could control the whole audio library on the computer from the iPhone from anywhere within wireless range (which is anywhere in the house). This included volume. My wife who has never touched any audio equipment in the house ever, was now walking around changing songs and having a great time. Amazing.
Quality wise, I didn't get the chance to compare the Droplet and the Box at high output, but at moderate volumes it was significant that there was no immediate or obvious drop in quality when switching from one to the other. (Note, I can't do this via remote). I was using Apple lossless compression.

My experience running DACs from a computer has been that there is an unacceptable amount of electrical noise that comes through the computer. Computers don't usually have an optical output and a lot of DACs don't either. Computers in this situation need to be in the same room etc which is not ideal. Being wireless and having both analog and digital outs as well as an onboard quality DAC this 'Box' just makes life so much easier and solves a lot of problems. The fact that it appears to set up easily and just work when attached to a computer without being extremely fiddly and painful is astonishing really.

I would suggest you actually charge more for them. They need to be at least the same price as a stand alone DAC and then at least an extra $200 for the wireless component. On top of this there is not competition that I'm aware of in the same quality range. The only change I'd possibly consider is a transformer more along the lines of notebook power supply and the addition of a short USB extension cord.

There you go my first product review.

Travis

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