These boxes will send Dolby Atmos through your home’s power lines

Fasetto has announced that its Audio Cu system, which connects TVs and different audio devices to speakers and subwoofers utilizing the existing powerfulness enactment wiring successful a home, has received Dolby Atmos Product Certification from Dolby Laboratories.

Similar to powerline networking solutions that tin leverage existing electrical wiring to share net astir a home, Fasetto’s Audio Cu is an alternate to having to snake audio cables done a wall, oregon effort to camouflage wires connecting speakers to an audio root nether rugs and furniture. It’s besides an alternate to wireless solutions similar Wi-Fi oregon Bluetooth which person their ain challenges and compromises including added latency, audio compression, and awesome reliability.

For a location theatre setup with 5 speakers and a subwoofer, you’d request 7 powerfulness outlets and 7 Audio Cu devices — 1 transmitter for your TV (the institution says an AV receiver isn’t needed) and 1 receiver for each speaker. Fasetto says the added latency of the strategy (signals are specially encoded earlier being sent done powerfulness lines) is little than 20 milliseconds, and it’s not affected by interference.

Any talker with reddish and achromatic (positive and negative) terminals is compatible with Audio Cu, and up to 10 channels tin beryllium sent done powerfulness lines from a azygous transmitter, accommodating a 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos setup. For larger homes up to six transmitters successful abstracted setups tin beryllium used, but the Audio Cu strategy maxes retired astatine a full of 32 channels. Setup and configuration, including audio presets, EQ adjustments, and effects for idiosyncratic speakers, each takes spot wrong an iOS and Android mobile app, though a TV oregon projector distant tin beryllium utilized to simply power volume.

Fasetto, which has created a couple of different multi-device connectivity solutions, hasn’t announced the terms of the Audio Cu transmitters and receivers, but it expects the strategy to beryllium disposable soon, erstwhile pricing volition beryllium revealed. Assuming it doesn’t adhd excessively overmuch to the outgo of a location theatre setup, it could beryllium a invited alternate solution, assuming you don’t unrecorded successful a distant compartment lacking electricity.