Why WiSA will take over home theater
Tags: Wireless Speakers, Wisa, Wireless Audio, Home Theater

This is the first entry into a series of post about WiSA, as this is the into piece, we will be doing a breadth first approach followed by multiple depth oriented stories. Disclosure, I do own a few shares of WiSA, but only bought them after doing a deep dive and writing my own bull and bear case thesis which will be visible on dgtsapp.com in the future.

This is probably your fist time hearing of WiSA. What is it? Why do I think it will fundamentally change the way we enjoy movies, music, video games, and more at home? Why do I think home theater is the biggest threat to traditional movie theaters? Well, let’s get started!

Let’s start by addressing the last question I posed first. Why do we go to theaters? For the experience obviously! However, what makes up that experience, what draws the line between watching movies at home and in the theater? Is it the over priced popcorn? The cold and stale chicken tenders? They guy on his phone? No. It’s the immersive screen and sound (and the popcorn :p). So with TV’s getting larger and cheaper with better quality (you can find 75+ inch 4K TV’s under 1k), short throw projectors that allow you to have giant 120+ inch screens without needing to mount anything or run cables, why doesn’t your home feel like a theater? Simple, sound.

You probably have a sound bar at home right now. It probably sounds much better than your TV speakers, yet it doesn’t invoke the neural links in your brain telling you — you need popcorn as you are at the theater. You might have a friend who has a full home theater in his basement that he paid over 50K for… Yet, his house feels like you are receiving premier private theater treatment. So how do you achieve similar results without taking out a second mortgage?

What is WiSA? WiSA is a standard, much like HDMI, where speaker manufactures can intergrate WiSA’s technology to enable wireless commuincation between the speakers and a trasmitter. They are not bluetooth, they are incredibly easy to set up (compared to traditional home theaters), easy to scale, have near zero latency, and will sound just as good if not better than wired speakers (continue reading to find out why).

Would you like to have movie theater sound at home without the hassle? No cables, no running wires, no dealing with receivers, amplifiers, processors, power commanders, etc… Just plug in the power cable and you’re done. Would you like to be able to buy just a few speakers and easily add more as time goes on? WiSA is the answer. With a sound bar, typically what you get is what you get, no dual subs, no adding overhead channels or surround channels, it is what is.

Cost. WiSA speakers are more expensive than their wired counter parts. However, one needs to invest in non-speaker equipment to match the sound quaility of WiSA enabled speakers as you will most likely need an amplifier and not just rely on the receiver (which is also more expansive than any WiSA puck like the WiSA SoundSend).

WiSA has been out for a few years, however, their offerings where a little outside the normal consumers budget. Now one can get a full 5.1 system for 1K or less. That may still seem like a lot, but if you compare even the cheapest WiSA compatible speakers with a $1500 premium sound bar with “height channels via dolby atmos” the cheaper WiSA speakers will blow the sound bar out of the water.

If you care, who am I? I consider myself an audiophile lite. I have a number of headphones and earbuds ranging in price as well as a home theater (currently in my living room). I truly beleive everyone should be able have the same if not a better experience than I currently have. However, getting into home theater can be difficult, time consuming, and a money pit. I beleive WiSA is positioned to make true theater sound to everyone without the added hassle of traditional home theaters.