Logitech Wireless DJ System

Pick up a remote, dial up a playlist, and listen to your PC’s audio files on your home stereo. Logitech doesn’t do anything by halves, so rest assured that this wireless streaming system is nearly perfect out of the box.

The Wireless DJ Music System’s rechargeable remote gives you full control over the songs, podcasts, and Internet radio stations it plays, including volume, skip forward/backward, and pause. Its backlit blue display shows you the title, artist, and other metadata. You can create ad hoc playlists on the remote and add songs without disrupting the current tune.

Thankfully, the Wireless DJ uses its own 165-foot Bluetooth 1.2 Advanced Audio Distribution Profile link, so you don’t have to worry about integrating it into your WLAN nor dumbing down your network’s encryption to support it. Audio quality sounded very similar to a cabled connection (audiophiles might argue), even at 50 feet with a steel I-beam, floors, and walls in the way. However, the signal became choppy under heavy CPU loads.

Logitech’s StreamPoint software imports your playlists and songs from iTunes, Windows Media Player, and MusicMatch Jukebox. It’s supposed to gather files directly from folders, too, but it couldn’t assimilate my M3U playlists until you have to import everything into WMP and reinstalled StreamPoint. There’s also a limited-function PC Control mode to transmit any audio your PC is playing.

Be aware that the Wireless DJ is stereo audio only, no 5.1 sound or video. StreamPoint might also choke on some DRM files, Logitech says (without mentioning specifics), but PC Control mode is the fallback option.

Logitech made the remote’s firmware upgradable and StreamPoint updatable and says that my only usability complaint, a lack of a faster way to scroll down a long list, may be fixed by the time you read this.