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I believed you

Posted by Dawnrazor (A) on June 22, 2024 at 12:59:04

In Reply to: RE: Adding Bluetooth to your system posted by AbeCollins on June 19, 2024 at 09:19:56:

when you said: "No serious primary audio setup will use Bluetooth"

Though I did test it. Put it in the main system and using the amazon music app on the phone and the PC ab/d it. Its super close and reminds me of when I compared cd to 320k mp3. You could tell a difference but it was close.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of us failed a DBT with Bluetooth vs. some other digital. In this case I was using AES from my network and optical from the blutooth unit.

Some caveats. Both digital outputs went through a reclocker. The bluetooth device seems to upsample and only output 48k though my phone says its sending 44.1. So I adjusted the computer to output 48k too. The bluetooth device also has a volume control which I maxed but I am betting it messes things up a bit anyhow. I made no attempt to feed the bluetooth device clean power and just hooked it into the "device" port on the front of my Tascam D3000.

Also it wasn't an instant A/b since my reclocker takes about 5 seconds to cycle through all the other inputs. I staggered the song so you could hear the same portion of music...so it was easy to tell what chain I was listening to and not exactly blind. Kind of scared of a blind test especially with the better built bluetooth devices out there...

So sure technically bluetooth sucks but in practice it is better than it sounds hearing about it on the internet.




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