Customer Reviews

Bose (40390) SL2 wireless surround link

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

After a recent house move I was forced to try and "hide" the surround sound wires for my LifeStyle 35 system rear speakers between the baseboards and carpet. This worked well until my youngest son started crawling and pulled the wires up.

After much searching around I decided that this system would be best and I am not disappointed. For owners of a Bose system, this is a snap to install. It comes complete with connections to your Acoustimass module, and new wires to connect from the remote unit to your speakers. No need to cut or strip wires and even has the right connections for Lifestyle "cube" speakers.

Without doubt, this is a perfect system when used as designed, within a decent-sized room for a home theatre system. My receiving unit is approximately 15 feet from the broadcast unit.

I recently moved to a new house, and didn't want to drill holes in the walls or floor to get the wires to the back of the room. I was somewhat skeptical about this product and concerned with sound quality. However, I'm happy to say there is absolutely no difference between using the SL2 and hard wiring the rear speakers!

a) The system is made up of two receivers. They are both very small, and are easily concealable.

b) The front receiver plugs into the base module with 2 wires (left & right speaker wires)

c) The rear speakers plug into the rear receiver.

d) Installation complete!

This is an excellent product and I highly recommend it to all.

An excellent product, however, I was just a little disappointed that this is really only a partially wireless connection. While the SL2 saves the trouble of running a wire to the back of the room, you must still run wires to the speakers. That said, the connection is beyond easy and the sound quality is impeccable. I highly recommend this product.

The Bose SL2 was very easy to install and worked the first try.
The sound quality is as good as when the rear speakers were hard wired.

I've had this hooked up for about three weeks now and no issues. Set-up was simple as other reviewers have stated. I'm renting so I didn't want to do anything to potentially damage walls, and still wanted to have the rear speakers hooked up without running wire all over the place, so this did the trick. I have it set about 25' from the main module, and I don't notice a loss of sound quality, sounds the same as when I had them hard-wired at my last house. You do need to run speaker wires from the rear-surround module (included in the package), but it worked for me and I was able to discreetly run those wires to the module.

I'm using it with a Bose AM-10 system I bought in '05. No complaints, recommend for other Bose users. Hope this helps

The BOSE SL2 maintains the quality that you expect from your BOSE system when it's a wired connection. It hides easily behind my couch and I've had no problems. The reason for the 3 stars is the price. There is no way this product should cost over 200 dollars. The technology involved just doesn't cost that much, and if it does BOSE has some serious supply chain issues they need to workout. They amount of tech you can get for 200 bucks nowadays is breathtaking and a wireless audio transmitter and receiver no matter how good does not cost 200 bucks. Shame on you BOSE.

Its not exactly wireless as the speakers and the unit have to be connected togther and also to the power outlet. Also the sound from the rear speakers seems a bit weak compared to the front and centre speakers.

Anil - Dec 22, 2011

I have the Bose Accoustimass 10 and didn't want to have wires running from the front to the back of the room. Just like the rest of the Bose products, hookup of this wireless solution was a snap and it worked perfectly. Please note that there is a small transmitter and receiver module(about 5 inches tall) which is what is shown in the pictures. They are very easy to conceal, and you can barely notice them. You do have to wire the rear speakers to the receiver unit so it is not entirely wireless. The sound from the surround speakers is great, just as good as if they were wired.

This should be used for Bose products only. This is a must if you do not want to run wires across the floor and do not want to do a rennovation to hide the wires. Compared with the wired sounds, the wireless is not as sharp, to be expected. However, the sound is still greeeeat! Very easy to set up and our recommendation is to make sure both units face each other at the same level. We bought ours from one call and throughout the service was excellent. We dropped it by one star just because the sound was slightly tad less sharp than the wired version.

I am very pleased with this purchase. I shopped around quite a bit and overall I was most impressed with the Bose quality. For being an over the air signal the product works great!