Bluetooth receiver
daboyz
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Looking for a Bluetooth receiver. Want to stay under $100. Needs to be portable so I know that won't be a problem at my price point.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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A unit designed for a vehicle?
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No. For home. Want to be able to quickly hook up to any of my receivers. HT,family room and garage. Looking for suggestions, too. It will not be used for critical listening but I'd like a good quality sound from it.
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Why not a chrome cast audio? 35 bucks each. I think I have one that I’ll sell to u cheap to try ;-)Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
Game Room 5.1.4: Denon AVR-X4200w; Sony UBP-x700; Definitive Technology Power Monitor 900 mains, CLR-3000 center, StudioMonitor 350 surrounds, ProMonitor 800 atmos x4; Sub - Monoprice Monolith 15in THX Ultra
Bedroom 2.1 Harmon Kardon HK3490; Bluesounds Node N130; Polk RT25i; ACI Titan Subwoofer -
+1 on the Chromecast Audio. All you need is WiFi, and you’re good to go. The Chromecast will give you more range than BT since everything goes through your WiFi.
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https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Bluetooth-Audio-Adapter-Streaming/dp/B00IQBSW28
^^ These have fairly good reviews, using BT3, simple, and have real RCA's on the back ^^
Can't beat the price, especially as this replaces the old BT2 model they had for over $100 -
Above your price point but something I've been considering since they use higher end components.
https://theauris.com/products/auris-blume-true-hi-fi-bluetooth-music-receiver____________________________________________________________
polkaudio Fully Modded SDA SRS 1.2TLs + Dreadnaught, LSiM706c, 4 X Polk Surrounds + 4 X ATMOS, SVS PB13 Ultra X 2, Pass Labs X1, Marantz 7704, Bob Carver Crimson Beauty 350 Tube Mono Blocks, Carver Sunfire Signature Cinema Grande 400x5, ADCOM GFA 7807, Panasonic UB420, Moon 380D DAC, EPSON Pro Cinema 6050 -
That little logitech bt3 unit... I bought one for the hell of it (~$20). When you asked about portable I figured palm-sized, but this thing is tiny. Its about the size of the OpticalMiniDAC I have hidden behind the stereo. The provided rca to 3.5mm is handy for the idea of protable, but of course I have mine patched in with a regular stereo rca cable.
UnBoxed:
Connections provided:
Compared to the Technics receiver this thing is tiny:
Took about 2 seconds to tooth in...
Played some opera selections, and played some Hendrix live, very clear results and no cut-outs even from 25ish feet away and through walls. Much more than I'd expect from a potato chip.
Paused the track and cranked the volume to '20' (where '10' is ear-splitting) to find a barely audible radio hiss (expected from BT devices but I've had some real crap ones in the past) and no other artifacts from the BT3 unit. Very clean.
To disconnect -- you can either disconnect on your player, push the button on top of the BT3 unit (which disconnects and opens it up to a new pairing device), or just turn off the stereo (if you have your DACs plugged into the switched outlets in the back).
I'm happy... no more headphone cable to my phone introducing loop noise (though usually I stream through the TV over the fiber for just that reason... but whatever).
YMMV as always. -
Thanks. May go with the Chromecast. Still looking.
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Sorry dude I have no idea where mine is?!? One of these days it'll show up I suppose...Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
Game Room 5.1.4: Denon AVR-X4200w; Sony UBP-x700; Definitive Technology Power Monitor 900 mains, CLR-3000 center, StudioMonitor 350 surrounds, ProMonitor 800 atmos x4; Sub - Monoprice Monolith 15in THX Ultra
Bedroom 2.1 Harmon Kardon HK3490; Bluesounds Node N130; Polk RT25i; ACI Titan Subwoofer -
https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Bluetooth-Audio-Adapter-Streaming/dp/B00IQBSW28
^^ These have fairly good reviews, using BT3, simple, and have real RCA's on the back ^^
Can't beat the price, especially as this replaces the old BT2 model they had for over $100
I have one of these that my son bought me for Christmas. It works pretty good and def portable.Stan
Main 2ch:
Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.
HT:
Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60
Other stuff:
Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601