bluetooth audio (receiving) adapter for audio rack

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Pascal Hagedorn - 20 Jan 2005 14:06 GMT

hi,

i would like to transmit music from my notebook via bluetooth to my audio
hifi rack/amplifier.

Is there anything on the market what could receive and maybe decode mp3 or
audio to my amplifier via bluetooth?
My amplifier has chinch and digital inputs.

thanks for your help

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Sheppy - 20 Jan 2005 17:50 GMT

The best solution would be a Wireless Network Media Player, there are quite
a few around, and the quality's good. But Bluetooth is unsuitable for such a
purpose, especially until they support high quality audio.

> i would like to transmit music from my notebook via bluetooth to my audio
> hifi rack/amplifier.
>
> Is there anything on the market what could receive and maybe decode mp3 or
> audio to my amplifier via bluetooth?
> My amplifier has chinch and digital inputs.

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Henryk =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Pl=F6tz?= - 20 Jan 2005 18:41 GMT

Moin,

Am Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:50:57 -0000 schrieb Sheppy:

> > Is there anything on the market what could receive and maybe decode
> > mp3 or audio to my amplifier via bluetooth?
> > My amplifier has chinch and digital inputs.

Sure. For example there is the Bluetake Hi-PHONO BT460EX which is
designed for exactly that purpose. The codec used isn't MP3 but rather
SBC which needs somewhat higher bitrates for the same quality but that
usually isn't a problem.

The underlying profile supports MPEG (including MP3) as optional codec,
but I'm currently unaware of any implementations other than headphones
(e.g. from Sonorix) for that. Since you're probably speaking German you
might want to have a look at http://www.heise.de/mobil/bluetooth/db/ and
search for the A2DP-SNK role.

About the subject of sending from your Laptop: Software support for A2DP
is currently not that good, so probably all receivers you'll get will
come bundled with a transceiver to encode and send the stream. I think I
heard that the next version of the Widcomm stack for Windows will
include that support, and I know for sure that there is some rather
experimental code for Linux (see http://bluetooth-alsa.sourceforge.net/)
that I'm using occasionally to send from my IBM T30 to my Bluetake
i-PHONO BT420.

> The best solution would be a Wireless Network Media Player, there are
> quite a few around, and the quality's good. But Bluetooth is
> unsuitable for such a purpose, especially until they support high
> quality audio.

Which would be, say, about one and a half year ago. ;-)

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ps - 21 Jan 2005 22:12 GMT

> hi,
>
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>
> thanks for your help

Witam

Oczywiscie ze jest!!! nalezy zakupic 2 laptopa z karta dzwiekowa z wyjciem
analogowym lub/i cyfrowym, podlczacyc owo wyjscie z odpowiednim zlaczem we
wzmacniaczu. Oczywiscie oba laptopy musza miec BT. Laczymy oba laptopy via
BT przesylamy mp3 i na tym podlaczonym dekodujemy mp3 przy pomocy winampa.
Sa tez inne tansze radiowe rozwiazania, jednak z tego co wiem nie via BT.

Pozdrawiam

Kri Z (sorry dzisiaj piatek ;) )

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