Make Wired Speakers Wireless - Surround Sound - Dynasty ProAudio WSA-5RP Review

This is an update video for what I believe is the best choice right now for making your surround sound speakers wireless or convert your existing speakers to make them wireless.. My last video showcased the Amphony but this new Dynasty ProAudio WSA-5RP unit takes it to a whole new level. This kit can also be used for making your subwoofer wireless.

If you want to convert wired home theatre speakers to wireless, this is how you do it.

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[guitarstar]

Another excellent review for those of us who refuse to say goodbye to our rear passive speakers

[mendiesel]

I’ve been looking for something like this for EVER!!!

[victor]

Hope my findings help someone, this was the most helpful video for me so passing on my findings here to see what others think: I wasn't ready to run wires down into the basement and up to the back walls for rear/back surrounds yet. I kept imagining a product like this and one day I came across this one. Looks well made, decent amp, good reviews. It works! I'm enjoying it but wanted to write this review right away so people understand some of the tradeoffs I've seen with some of the comments/guidance I've seen especially for someone that doesn't watch movies very loud, I'm usually between -25db and -35 db. So firstly, a few reviews/comments mentioned to ignore the out of phase report my receiver was giving. I found this caused some weird imaging issues, I especially noticed it when switching to all channel stereo, i was distinctly hearing the front speakers separate from the surrounds these were powering. After a couple of days i switched polarity of my cables connected to the dynasty amp, so red to black and black to red and my receiver stopped complaining about out of phase issue and also all speaker stereo was now creating one enveloping soundstage across front and rears. Note that I don't really listen to content this way, it is just a way i test how well they blend together. Second thing I noticed, a lot of reviews/feedback said setting the dynasty amp side volume too low can cause clipping/popping if you receiver is jacking up the volume too much on the input side. I understand this but ran into issues following this too closely. Initially speakers I used were inefficient Micca Covo-s with impedance of 4ish ohms. I set the volume knob on the dynasty the first time to around 90% and my receiver set the db down to -4db. This worked well and the speakers sounded pretty good especially since i had them decently close to ear level. I then got some fluance bipole speakers and mounted these 2 feet above ear height, reran calibration and receiver set them to -7db since they are more efficient. This did not sound good, speakers wouldn't kick on unless i increased the volume to wake them up and then lower it, and there were no dynamics, no whizzing of bullets. Today, I went and adjusted the dynasty volume knob to say 60% and reran room calibration and now receiver set it to +3db during calibration. Oh my, sound is amazing now, tested it with ghost in a shell and bladerunner 2049 and i can feel the ambience and effects way better even at -30db listening volume. So here is my 2 cents, if you listen at lower volumes and have a low chance of overpowering the transmitter dynasty and clipping then try setting the volume to a more moderate level (this also makes sense since with class D amps if you go too high i've found you can distort), so by having the receiver sending a stronger signal to the dynasty it is getting more "information/resolution" to work with, and then your class D amp at the other end is working less. So once again, this is because I listen at lower levels. If i were listening at higher volumes then i'd probably want to bring the +3db on my receiver closer to 0db or -1db by setting the dynasty a little higher on the volume. Now this is working much better and with the +3db as opposed to the -7db my receiver is feeding it I think it seems to be kicking on/waking up easier. Hope this helps someone!

[winkfiorillo]

Thanks, just got mine up and running. Even though you said all you have to do is plug it in and they connect I had a hard time believe that. But that's exactly what happened. I plugged them both in and turned them on and they just connected! I even plugged the transmitter into the outlet on the back of my receiver so that it turns on and off when I turn the receiver on and off and it just connects again automatically. The product is awesome!

[marinesince]

I just bought a set of these to replace the amphony set I currently have. The amphony set was great up until about a year ago when they started to snap, crackle and pop. A little at first but now then are completely unusable and I’ve been without rear surrounds for some time now. Can’t wait for these to come in so I can have my true surround sound back!!

[SmittyAZ]

I'm glad I saw this one with the built-in amp. I was pricing out another brand and would either need powered speakers, or a separate amp and it requires one TX/RX for each speaker for discrete sound.

Thanks for the review.

[jerrybandy]

Used your link and pulled the trigger. I actually ordered the WSA-5TR first by mistake before you I realized it that they were used with powered speakers.

[HeavyBeats]

I love that Jamie Oliver is doing reviews now. Thanks for this. I had no idea there was something decent on market.

[MotosAndMachines]

Thanks for the review. My 4 or 5 year old amphonys have been getting increasingly flakey and noisy over the last year, so it looks like it's time to give these a try. Good to know there's another option.

[MSDOGS]

Good info. I've been thinking of adding surrounds to my system and just haven't had confidence in my ability to make it happen with such a device. This looks pretty straight forward so plan to give it a try.

[ONI.]

Have you seen any issues with hissing or popping, or any signal interference since it’s near the 5Ghz and 6Ghz bandwidth?

[djmscookie]

I have one of the first Bose surround systems with wired speakers. My system is still awesome with the exception that i can't use my 5 speaker system because it's wired!....HELP PLEASE! Thank You❤

[CraigIsle]

Excellent review that made me buy it. I’m in the UK and - apart from the high import taxes - ordering directly from Dynasty Proaudio was quick and easy.

The unit works really well and simply requires the usual plug adapters to work in the UK. No problem with different electricity standards. It also worked well even though it is placed behind the the centre speaker (which is in a unit) and behind a sofa - so literal line of sight is not required. Total distance is about 4 metres. The main reason to hide is the blue light is bright! Not something I really want to see when watching a movie.

The supplied speaker cables are incredibly basic. They would undoubtably do the job but I replaced them. Banana plugs on everything except the transmitter - no idea why.

I’m not sure what standby is like, because my rear speakers are constantly making a super low level noise, so they never lower off. You can only hear it if you put your ear right up to the speaker and the rest of the house is silent, so not an issue per say. Just a bit annoying. I switch the units off at the wall when not in use anyway. Also, like others have said when running calibration software it says the polarity is reversed when it is not.

All in all super pleased with them and much better than finding a way to get wires to the back of the room.

[AJCoReVlogs]

Going to try these for small cheap rear speakers under sofa… hopefully no popping or delay… don’t want to spend $300 on the “plus version”.

[ArtemisKitty]

Whoa, this looks like ecen more of a match than I thought... I'm looking to turn some spherex omnipolar speakers into wireless, so I should get a really similar output, nice! Thank you so much! (Ill check if you hqve a newer suggestion, but just finding THIS already is a bit hope for me.)

[KarlFarbman]

Great review, but do you know if a second received unit can be purchased so that the one transmitter can send signal to the 2 receivers? I have rear left/right speakers that i want to run wirelessly as part of a surround sound, but they are too far apart to try have both speakers connected to the one receiver, and i don't want to have to run a long wire to one of them as it wouldn't be behind a couch and there are doorways along the wall. Please let me know if you happen to have this info. Thanks!

[Indrajitkumar]

Thanks for the nice review. I see an uncanny resemblance with another product OSD Nero WRSKII that Crutchfield and some other places sell. Are these the exact same item- rebranded or something?

[DimiYankov]

I actually need to have two receivers, one for each rear surround speaker because of the shape of the living room. How does one connect two receivers and each is connected to a speaker?

[failingup]

Great info. I was wondering if it could run a sub and rear speakers with that one unit, then after I thought that you answered that question :)

[dominichall]

Any popping or other distortions with these during your usage and if so, did anything resolve or mitigate those issues?