Uncompressed wireless audio goes live: Sonical demonstrates UWB at NAMM

Sonical used NAMM to showcase its ultra-wideband (UWB) technology featuring AntennaWare’s BodyWave antenna technology, demonstrating how UWB enables premium, uncompressed wireless audio streaming and multi-channel audio transmission with imperceptible latency.

As the audio industry continues to speculate about future wireless standards, Sonical is making a clear statement at NAMM: UWB is ready now for professional, immersive, and premium audio applications.

Remora PRO leverages UWB radio technology to deliver the bandwidth, timing accuracy, and robustness required for uncompressed multi-channel audio, without the compromises traditionally associated with consumer wireless systems.

At NAMM, Sonical demonstrated premium-quality wireless audio streaming with no perceptible delay. The system is designed to remain stable even in dense RF environments, making it suitable for demanding real-world use.

These capabilities make UWB particularly well-suited to spatial audio, wireless monitoring, immersive playback, and next-generation creator tools; areas where existing wireless technologies continue to fall short.

“There’s a lot of conversation in the industry about waiting for the next generation of Bluetooth and we look forward to evaluating it when it is commercially available,” said Gary Spittle, CEO of Sonical. “With UWB, we’re already streaming uncompressed, multi-channel audio with imperceptible latency. This isn’t a future roadmap, it’s working today.”

AntennaWare Commercial Director, Jonny McClintock, added, “While UWB offers the possibility of low latency, uncompressed wireless audio, the difficulty in the past has been its fundamental weakness of reliability due to it operating at a higher bandwidth. This higher bandwidth makes it more susceptible to the impact of body blocking and introducing drop-outs. By addressing the underlying causes of body blocking, AntennaWare’s patented BodyWave antenna technology allows products like Sonical’s Remora Pro to deliver both reliability and the full potential on offer by UWB for audio.

While newer Bluetooth standards promise higher data rates, real-world adoption has historically been slow. BLE Audio has taken years to reach the market, with many products continuing to rely on Classic Bluetooth using heavily compressed audio. For professional and premium audio applications, these compromises remain a significant limitation.

UWB, by contrast, is already delivering the data rates required for uncompressed audio, along with deterministic timing that is critical for multi-channel and spatial audio applications. Sonical’s message is clear: manufacturers no longer need to wait for ecosystem-wide Bluetooth adoption cycles to unlock high-quality wireless audio experiences.

Recent real-world testing has also demonstrated significant improvements in system performance. Where earlier implementations achieved typical wireless ranges of 10-15 metres, Sonical has now demonstrated reliable UWB audio transmission beyond 30 metres indoors. This provides more than enough coverage for single-room professional audio setups, gaming, and home cinema use cases, while maintaining audio quality and low latency.

Sonical demonstrated Remora PRO with BodyWave antenna technology throughout NAMM, with live UWB audio demos running alongside spatial audio plugins, allowing visitors to experience the technology first-hand.