The Wireless Speaker and Audio (WiSA) Association has announced the addition of key players in the home entertainment market as WiSA members. The WiSA Association is an industry group dedicated to bringing reliable, high-performance, interoperable, wireless, surround sound audio products to the home theater market. Joining the Association to advance its mission are Onkyo Corporation, speaker brand DALI , Gibson Guitar Corporation and speaker brand Accent Digital, distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Amber Technology.

According to Leichtman Research Group’s (LRG), 1Q 2013 Research Notes, “HDTVs are present in 75 percent of U.S. households, up from 23 percent five years ago.” Additionally, CEA (Consumer Electronics’ Association) reports that the most important criteria for consumers when choosing a viewing device is image quality, sound quality, ease of use, and convenience. The WiSA Association, through its compliance program, addresses these key growth drivers. WSA-complaint systems solve the ease of use issue with unique automated set up capabilities either by simply pressing a button on the remote or by manipulating a smartphone or tablet driven application. WiSA-compliant systems deliver cinema quality sound with 24bit, up to 96Khz uncompressed audio.  With the mandate that WiSA-compliant products must be interoperable, the consumer can enjoy the convenience and freedom-of-choice to mix and match components from different manufacturers with the added capability to scale their wireless speaker system from 2.0 all the way up to 7.4 whenever they want with whatever brand they want.

WiSA is here.