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Terrible Audio Quality
This Belkin Bluetooth receiver degrades the quality of the audio playback to completely unacceptable levels.
I recently purchased 3 different models of bluetooth for a project involving recording the audio off a mobile device using bluetooth audio output.
I ran each devices audio through a high quality set of reference speakers: Tannoy 8" and a KRK Active Sub.
As a test I go and forth between playing music out of the mobile device using a standard 1/8" audio cable, and then switching over to the Belkin Bluetooth device.
I was shocked at how terrible the audio sounded via the Belkin Bluetooth device. It completely degraded the quality of the audio output in the following ways:
- the low-end was all missing, the sub hardly output anything
- the sound sound tinty and mushed, like you compressed your MP3 file down to 64kpbs.
- the sound also had an echo to it, like listening to it in a large room.
I suggest the Logitech Bluetooth receiver(model 980-000540) over this device by a strong margin.
April 2012 · Electronics · verified purchase