XVIVE
U2 WIRELESS
REVIEW BY DAVID PAKULA
STREET PRICE $149.00
Going wireless is a freeing
experience, provided you
avoid any technical issues.
Some constraints include
batteries, specialized
cabling, and large format
transmitters and receivers.
Xvive has an offering: its
U2 system that removes
some of the typical issues
with a well thought-out
new format.
two items, I found one
marked as a transmitter and
the other as a receiver. They
each have a power switch
and a channel button, and
folded underneath was a
quarter-inch inch plug on a
swivel. It seemed that Xvive
had designed a twist on the
bud-sized transmitter, and
squeezed the receiver into
the same format. Genius!
When I saw the small box, I
was surprised to learn that
there was a wireless system
inside. I opened it to find a
small instruction manual, a
“Y” USB power cable, and
two items that looked more
like individual earphones
than a wireless system.
When I pulled out the latter
The Xvive U2 system offers
four channel choices at
2.4 GHz, and up to 100
feet line-of-sight outdoors,
so you can use multiple
transmitters and receivers
with multiple instruments
in the same setting, or, as
the nice folks at Xvive told
me, you can assign multiple
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receivers to the same
channel and use a single
(or multiple) transmitters.
And, unless you are playing
on a football field-sized
stage, you should be just
fine in terms of distance
for most venues.
How does the U2 system
sound? I tested the
system against a cable,
as well as my larger
format wireless system.
There was no noticeable
difference in the audio or
the guitar response. I ran
a rather unscientific test
by recording a strummed
A chord with a cable and
with the U2 system into a
computer recording rig.
Charting the spectral results