Best Wireless System?

If you can find one, the Xwire is the best ever made.

 

Hi Snaggletooth. I've been considering wireless for a while now too. Samson keeps getting advertised over on this side of the pond, another one that seems to be getting a big advertising campaign is AKG - they do a plug in pack like the Samson ones that I've seen, but the jack is free to move to fit any type of socket!

Don't know about prices in the US though!!

I think that you can find out about them on www.akg-wireless.com

Hope this helps!

 

I use an AKG WR80. UHF 15 channel. It works well and is very transparent. I paid about $400 (US) for it.

The guitar player that I work with most of the time uses the new EV UHF wireless. I think it works as well as my AKG and it can be purchased for about $300.

Chas

 

Samson Airline yeah, that's the one. As to the AKG clone, I'm not sure - I'll check out the ad in Guitarist magazine tonight and let you know!!

 

I'd go (actually, I did go) with the Shure UT UHF dual diversity unit. GC carries the same unit as Access UHF. They're list is about $600, GC sells them at about $349, and you can haggle them down to about $300. These units have frequency response down to 20 hz, which you need for bass. Mine works bitchen.

 

i've got an old rackmount sampson...it works just fine

 

X-Wire

 

why oh why did XWire go out of business??? Its not fair! By the time I can afford one, they'll be fargin impossible to find!! agh!

 

From what I understand, the X-Wire technology was bought by Sennheiser. They use it in the Sennheiser Evolution 100 UHF Wireless. Problem is they degraded to bit processing somewhat. I believe the X-Wire was 24 bit and
the Sennheiser is 16 bit.

 

Hi Heavyduty - checked out the ad, the AKG clone is called the GB040 (GB stands for - Guitar Bug!)

The AKG stuff actually looks interesting. The Samson Airline stuff was just reviewed in Guitarist magazine - got quite a good write up!

 

I'd like to see where this goes....

 

Xwire sold there technology to Sennheiser, I don't know if they have got something that uses the xwire system yet though. BTW Xwire was a normal UHF transmiiter but it did everything else digitally, supposedly worked great. A lot of people said it sounded better than chords. Check out Sennheiser and see.
cam

 

I'm using a (Nasty)Nady Encore 2 VHF diversity number...works quite well, freq. range down to 20Hz. Cheap as old shoes, too.

I don't dig the noise gate on it though, too much pop. Do all wireless units have this problem?