Audio Unlimited Wireless Speakers with Remote (SPK-VELO-001) Review
Audio Unlimited Wireless Speakers with Remote (SPK-VELO-001) Review from Samantha Mccormick Midwife. Great Wireless Speakers (except remote doesn’t work), I bought these speakers about 6 months ago and am extremely pleased with them. They are my 5th set of wireless speakers for my home. We live in a house constructed from concrete block, so running speaker wire is a big problem, even attaching cable covers to wires.
All the previous wireless speakers we tried gave weak or poor sound or stopped working shortly after installation. I love my Sirius satellite radio – have it in the car, on-line at the office and at home. The speakers are simply plugged in to the headphone output on the PC (too lazy to move the unit and plug them into the back speaker output).
In desperation, I finally decided to spend a little more (gulp) on these speakers – I can say they are totally worth the money. I have them in our kitchen which opens onto a covered porch (lanai). One speaker points into the kitchen, the other points to the porch. They have been working flawlessly for about 6 months (except the remote, which I am getting to), even with the one outside exposed a to very warm (>100 degrees) and humid environment.
Considering that we have to replace our stainless steel trashcan every 8 months or so due to rust, and scrub our flatware about as often, the fact that these speakers can stand up to humidity over the long FL summer speaks highly of the engineering of these speakers.
Now, the remote. Worked great for one day. <sigh>. Now I can’t change the volume from the remote. Nothing happens. Changed batteries, turned system on and off, etc, all the ususal tech things. Nothing.
Haven’t contacted the company, because I decided I didn’t care enought to take the time. There may be a simple solution or the company may be willing to replace a non-working remote. Right now, I don’t mind walking over to the speakers and manually adjusting the volumes.
4 stars is because of my remote problem. As I said, the company may be responsive to this problem, but I haven’t given them the chance to show their support.
Addendum:
Boy, do I feel stupid. After writing this review, I picked up the remote to prove to myself that the remote doesn’t work. Ooops! Now the remote does work, all of a sudden, months after it stopped working. I swear, I have witnesses to the remote not working to change the volume!
So, WTF?
I have also emailed the tech support and cables unlimited to inquire about my mysterious remote.
Samantha McCormick
Cape Coral, FL
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