As anyone who uses a power line broadband distribution system knows, being able to ship digital data around your home using your plug sockets can be a phenomenally useful way of getting data to distant devices without having to rely on potentially bandwidth- and distance-limited wireless networks. Unfortunately, though, the amount of ‘digital noise’ typically associated with using your power lines to send data around your home has prevented this distribution method from being a really viable solution for multi-channel audio distribution – until now, with the launch of the Fasetto Audio Cu system.
Audio Cu is a truly plug-and-play sound over your power line home audio solution capable of carrying as many as 10 separate channels of Dolby Digital, Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Atmos audio without any loss of quality.
The ground-breaking Fasetto Audo Cu system lets you transmit up to 10 channels of Dolby Atmos sound … [+]
So good is the Audio Cu technology at detecting and dealing with potential noise on a power line caused by such power-hungry appliances as vacuum cleaners, air conditioners and washing machines, in fact, that it has received official Dolby certification for all three of the previously mentioned Dolby sound formats. So you can connect your audio system throughout your home without having to put up with miles of speaker wires or the complications and quality limitations associated with traditional Wi-Fi, WISA/WISA-e and Bluetooth wireless technologies. With Audio Cu, your sound shouldn’t be negatively impacted on its journey through your power lines by structural and/or RF interference.
Remarkably the Audio Cu system can pass its multi-channel Dolby sound to speakers and subwoofers even across multiple circuit breakers, electrical legs and junction boxes. It’s compatible with any brand of wired speakers, too, enabling users to grow their speaker count as and when they like, or easily move entire speaker systems to new locations. Basically it combines all the sound quality joys of a true and full surround sound speaker solution with the wireless convenience of a soundbar.
While much of what the Audio Cu system does takes place invisibly, along the power lines tucked inside the walls of your home, there is inevitably a physical product element to it as well. The Audio Cu transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) units are sleek and lightweight, though, with the transmitters using HDMI’s eARC and ARC capabilities to receive audio from eARC-compatible TVs, before decoding the sound and then moving the audio data through your power lines to each speaker or subwoofer you’ve got connected to an Audio Cu receiver.
While it’s aimed at regular consumers as well as custom installers, it’s clearly the latter who are likely to get the fullest benefit from the Fasetto Audio Cu system. With this in mind, Fasetto has designed a software integrator dashboard to make installation easier, as well as allowing remote access so that installers can troubleshoot issues by getting real-time system results for every Audio Cu TX and RX unit on a home’s network. So if a customer accidentally unplugs an Audio CU unit, home system integrators will be able to spot the problem right away, rather than having to hunt the issue down manually.
Fasetto has also developed a dedicated mobile app for iOS and Android smart devices that makes Audio Cu systems easier to install, control and monitor, complete with individual control of each channel in your system.
Audio Cu systems are available now from authorized dealers, with more details available from Fasetto’s website.
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