Bluetooth/NFC Adapter for Receiver

[k11]

Looking for a nice bluetooth receiver to play music from phone/tablet to stereo.

Ordered this.
Amazon.com: [New Release] BrightPlay Home HD Bluetooth 4.0 Music Receiver / Adapter with apt-X Technology for CD Quality Sound: Electronics

Never used NFC, so no idea if it is better than bluetooth.
Have a Samsung Galaxy so will try. What I read is AptX technology is good for quality sound. But this model does not have optical out, standard RCA.

Did look at Belkin HD model, was bit more expensive and not extremely good reviews. Yamaha one is also higher. Logitech sells old model at this price.
Heard creative is good, but could not find reviews.

Are there any products similar to this at around this price.

 

[zoony]

Not at the price you have mentioned but the Nuforce BTR-100 (US $69) or the Monoprice Home Theater Music Receiver w/ NFC and APTX Codec Support (US $49) are good choices. Both have optical outputs. The optical out lets you bypass the inbuilt dac and use an external dac or connect it directly to the optical input of the AV receiver. Using the optical out the sound quality will be much better.

 

[Santy]

All these days I thought BT is limited to 512 kbps maximum.
This is interesting. Especially the ones with optical output.

Should the phone or tab should also support Aptx for streaming loseless audio over BT?

Is there any other option without inbuilt dac (only BT > SPDIF) if at all that was cost saving?

 

[zoony]

Both the transmitter and the receiver have to be apt-x compatible.

 

[k11]

I cancelled the order.

I will buy the one with optical out.

Amazon.com: Satechi Bluetooth Music Receiver with NFC and HD atpX for smartphones, tablets, music devices, Samsung Galaxy S4, S3, S2 / iPhone 5, 4S, 4 / iPad Mini, 3, 2, 1, and more: Electronics

My receiver seems to have two optical outs. Once I am using for Videocon STB, the other one is free so that I can use it for this. I wanted to avoid buying a splitter, but it seems not ncessesary.

 

[k11]

Thanks for the advice guys.

I called up my friend who incidentally has Amazon Prime account to buy the Sateshi receiver.

It is more than double the price of a regular belkin receiver without NFC/atpX/Optical out, hope it does perform well.

Review
Satechi Bluetooth and NFC Music Receiver - YouTube

 

[saikatbiswas82]

Hi @k11... Do you have a DLNA capable receiver? If no, please get a DLNA capable receiver first.

Let me tell you some scenarios where I stream music to my receiver from Laptop/Desktop/Tab/Phone.

I have a DLNA capable receiver (Yamaha A810). I connected my receiver to my D-Link Wi-Fi router (using RJ45). My Desktop is also connected to that router using RJ45. My laptop and Tab are connected via Wi-Fi. When I want to play music from my Laptop/Desktop, I just click on "Net" button on my receiver's remote and all shared music servers appears on screen. I can select any music file by using my remote only. There are nice features in remote like Play, Pause, Stop, Forward, Reverse. I can even Browse my audio collection by album, artist etc.

In my tab, I downloaded Yamaha AVR app from google play store. This app has a functionality to stream music from my tab to AVR over network.

Right now I have 150mbps wi-fi router. But, if you need higher bandwidth over wi-fi, get a 1Gbps wi-fi router (I think there is one model from Asus). Try to get a 1Gbps network switch as well (in case if if have more appliances to be connected to same network). And you are done.

 

[k11]

Nope, my receiver does not have DLNA. Might not change the receiver for next couple of years, though I might add a dedicated low power consumption HTPC to the system in a few months.

My wifi Bluray player has DLNA I think, though I have never played with it.
I probably should try it out.

Your idea sounds great.

 

[saikatbiswas82]

Nope, my receiver does not have DLNA. Might not change the receiver for next couple of years, though I might add a dedicated low power consumption HTPC to the system in a few months.

My wifi Bluray player has DLNA I think, though I have never played with it.
I probably should try it out.

Your idea sounds great.

Thanks that you liked it. I believe your DLNA bluray player will do just fine. I too have a DLNA BDP but never tried that option. I'll probably try that out this weekend and update you accordingly.

 

[saikatbiswas82]

I tried to play with my DLNA blu ray player. It did great. Unfortunately it is only able to play music files without any problem. When I tried to play video files from the player (the video library is in my laptop), the quality was degraded.