LG LH-W753TA wireless home theater system

By Philip Wong
Oct 17, 2005

Just when we thought we had seen the best implementation for eradicating the cumbersome speaker cables from the Japanese, LG's LH-W753TA beats the competition with an innovative one-speaker one-cable alternative which offers clean-cut wireless capability without compromising surround sound performance.

This Korean flagship HTIB ranks high in versatility with its MP3/WMA/JPEG playback from USB devices and could almost pass as a universal disc player with the onboard DVD-audio disc compatibility.

Design
The LH-W753TA low-profile, DVD receiver occupies 430 x 350mm of shelf space and comes in the familiar black-and-silver color scheme which has an unassuming appeal. Decked on the front panel is a row of neatly laid-out playback buttons, while occupying the far right real estate is a volume knob which glows in blue but was a little too flimsy for our liking. Though the recessed USB port is aesthetically pleasing, we ran into problems using the port on numerous occasions, especially with wide thumb drives.

Driving the front and rear channels are four sleek-looking tower speakers clad in aluminum finish with black cloth grilles. While our speakers came partially assembled, a quick check on the manual revealed a fairly complicated assembly procedure. Users are required to snap together two segments of the speaker tower before securing a glass lookalike plastic plate onto the base with four of the provided screws.

	Sure looks like it can double as a sundial! (click here for larger image)

LG has implemented a very effective and elegant design for its wireless surround sound solution. The kit consists of an external audio transmitter mated with a pair of powered speakers with integrated amplifier and wireless receiver. The sundial-shaped transmitter draws its power directly from the receiver unit eliminating the need for an external power adapter and, to top it off, the three-piece ensemble emits a soft blue glow once wireless connectivity is established.

Greeting us onscreen is an intuitive user menu which has a simple layout and structure, perhaps a tad over-simplified in this case as our search for advanced video settings turned out in vain. The distance setting for the front speakers and subwoofer are also disabled and according to the user manual, is due to a limitation by Dolby Laboratories' licensing agreement which we found hard to comprehend as this was the first product we came across with such a constraint.

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