If you are about to purchase a brand new home theater system then chances are that you are considering to get some wireless rear speakers. Going wireless has the advantage that you won’t have to install long speaker cords throughout your room. Many vendors of home theater systems have started to offer wireless-ready receivers which take a plug-in transmitter that can send the rear-speaker audio channels wirelessly to a wireless receiver. I am going to take a look at audio latency of the wireless option and explain in how far this latency affects the sound experience.

After you have picked …