One of the products that flies out of the Rapallo doors on a daily basis is the wireless remote control extender. 

It means you can enjoy your music AND change the volume without running back into the lounge and while you’re listening to music in the room next door. Even better: you don’t have to install a wall-plate volume control. 

We regularly get emails and phone calls from customers who are not quite sure how to install the product or even think it is faulty. While we are more than happy to help you out, we thought it might be much better to save you the time and simply show you what to do.

Rapallo’s Ben is on a budget… still. He may be no longer a student, but a full-fledged Rapallo employee… but until further notice, he remains on a budget when it comes to the purchase of his AV gear. And like so many audiophiles that have to work with limited funds, he is a big fan of Topping DACs and amplifiers.  

Topping released their new DX7 DAC and balanced headphone amplifier at the end of last year,  and as soon as it landed in the Rapallo quarters, it went on a trip home with Ben for some vigorous testing. 

When it comes to  wireless speakers, there’s a pretty simple way of looking at it, we think: wired speakers offer better sound, and wireless speakers tend to be more convenient.Of course, that’s a very broad statement and there are exceptions to that rule. And yes, wireless speakers are getting better. But there’s no going around that wires are better at transmitting sound than Wi-Fi (or Bluetooth for that matter).

But there is the convenience factor…

Here’s a story: some friends of Rapallo’s were building a new home. It was to tick some bucket list things; like a dedicated home theatre room and an awesome view. But when they were telling us about their plans, they weren’t really allowing for multi-room speakers for background music. They were thinking it didn’t really matter and that a pair of cheap wireless speakers would do the trick just as well. 

We went on a mission to convince them that some well placed in-ceiling speakers in their kitchen, living area, office, bedroom and bathroom would do so much better. We drew them a plan and they reluctantly agreed. 

Fast forward two years  and our Rapallo friends have been swinging through the day with their in ceiling speakers: ‘It’s the best advice we received, we use these in-ceiling speakers all the time. I don’t know how we put up with bad sound for so long.’