Speaker wire is pricey if you are going to buy it at retail, cheap in case you just use a spool of electric cable, but always, always an eyesore. Sure, you’ll pull it in the course of the drywall, hide it behind some curtains — otherwise you can just go wireless. That is the option Cue Acoustics will enable with its PS1 bookshelf speakers, shipping this August. They are a high-end pair, each internally amplified and offering a 5-inch downward-firing woofer, 3.5-inch mid, and .75-inch tweeter, covering each of the acoustic hotspots with fanfare. More important, though, is that every speaker can run with just one cable: power. Full details after the break.
To attach these for your wired setup you may run a digital optical or RCA analog signal into one, with a view to them pump that signal wirelessly to any other using what’s called a “proprietary uncompressed digital audio” format. That’s nice, but better goes with a totally wireless transmission setup, that are achieved with either an (optional) external adapter or by simply connecting to them directly using DLNA . Yes, you’ll pump audio straight out of your smartphone, though for sure it will become faraway from uncompressed if so. Unfortunately we cannot deliver any impressions of the way they sound, the crowded GDGT event not making for an excellent listening environment. But, what lets make out over the din didn’t disappoint.
The PS1 speakers are set to ship in August and, while we couldn’t get anyone at Cue to clue us in on a value, we’re told they’ll be equivalent to other high-end bookshelf speakers. So, you realize, pricey… they usually probably won’t play that old copy of ultimate Fantasy VII you could not bear to throw out, either.
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