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Oono Transmita Vii wireless music system

Wireless music - just don't go into a different room

Music, or any form of sound, can be played through the Vii because it doesn't discriminate between audio formats or jukebox applications. Just set your favourite app to play a batch of tracks, and the Vii transmitter will beam what comes out of the headphone socket to its receiver. This allowed us to switch seamlessly between songs stored in either the Microsoft or Apple formats, in addition to others.

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...comes with instruction-free packaging

Once the two units are connected, powering them up is simply a matter of flicking a small black switch on the side of each unit. A vertical bar then lights up on the topside of each unit and flickers blue when data is being transmitted, red during a recharge - each unit has an on-board battery, charged through a mini USB port or with the bundled AC adaptor - and red and yellow when fully charged. To charge both units simultaneously, users must connect one to a computer via the supplied mini USB cable and the other to the power unit, or alternatively buy an additional mini USB cable and charge both by USB.

An antenna, about the length of a cigarette, must then be placed into the upright position on both the transmitter and receiver to help with the broadcast and reception of the music. You can leave the aerials off, but the sound quality is extremely low.

After selecting our random playlist, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody began playing weakly through our compact stereo's speakers. Sound levels between the music source and the output device then became a constant issue though, and we had to set our laptop's volume at the very maximum and our stereo to a fairly high volume too, before we got any decent blast of music.

Of course, when we unplugged the transmitter unit or switched to a different audio source on the stereo, such as the CD player, the volume was set to an ear-burstingly high level. This meant music was blasted out before we could run for the controls, much to our neighbours' annoyance.

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