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Voiis Wireless Music G'way
http://www.forcetechnology.com.au
$99.95
4/5

Voiis' Stereo Wireless Music Gateway is a long-range wireless device that lets you broadcast music around the house. The Gateway connects to your stereo system and transmits up to 100 metres, to devices such as Bluetooth headphones or Voiis Mini Pocket Phone Messenger (see separate review). The Gateway's input cables have 3.5mm stereo jacks and twin RCA stereo jacks, so you can connect it to almost any source device to listen to a stereo system, TV or computer.

You can also plug the Gateway into your stereo system and receive sound from a computer or Bluetooth phone, allowing you to listen to MP3s and podcasts on your stereo.

With the Gateway in the front room of our house, the Mini Pocket Phone Messenger works 20 metres away in the backyard. The sound quality is clear and stable, but there's a bit of background hiss and you get the best sound by turning the volume up on the source rather than the Bluetooth receiver. The delay is so low we could listen to the TV from the couch without losing lip sync.

The Gateway is a Class 1 Bluetooth device that can talk, from up to 100 metres, to other Class 1 Bluetooth devices such as the Voiis Mini Pocket Phone Messenger and some Bluetooth headphones. The Voiis gear wouldn't play nicely with the Bluetooth built into our ThinkPad notebook - Windows doesn't natively support the A2DP stereo Bluetooth format - so you're better off also buying a Voiis Class 1 Bluetooth receiver such as the Mini Pocket Phone Messenger - or Bluetooth headphones.