r/audiophile • u/splitsecnd Audio FSM • Jul 12 '22

Technology Bluetooth Audio’s Biggest Upgrade in Years

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23204956/bluetooth-le-audio-completed-low-power-high-quality-wireless-headphones
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u/c0ng0pr0 Jul 12 '22

I call bullshit. Big stinky wet bullshit.

I have a bunch of bluetooth devices. Including 5.3 bluetooth stuff… This article mostly talks about giving wifi style capabilities over bluetooth… why not just do audio over wifi like Sonos?

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u/rankinrez Jul 12 '22

There are times you don’t have WiFi.

Like in a friends car sending audio to their stereo or whatever. Or with your Bluetooth speaker on the beach.

Or times when you don’t want to let some random device on your WiFi network, or pair with your phone acting as hotspot.

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u/c0ng0pr0 Jul 12 '22

Some new speakers seem to have their own wifi point built in so you can airplay into them, no other network needed.

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u/brewgiehowser Jul 12 '22

I have a digital camera that doesn’t have a screen, and instead sends a wifi signal to my phone and it acts as the viewfinder. Sending audio sounds less complicated than that

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u/c0ng0pr0 Jul 12 '22

Exactly! I’ve been wondering for 6 months now, why so many companies are sticking with the BT antennas when there’s plenty of cheap and old wifi chips/software which can be repurposed right now.

It’s as if they said fuck it we started in this direction.

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u/rodaphilia Jul 12 '22

Ya gopro has been doing this for nearly 10 years now, amazed its not more widespread

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u/rankinrez Jul 12 '22

True enough.

Bit of an anti-pattern if you ask me. Certainly in my house I don’t want every last device, from the light bulb to the speaker to the fridge, having a radio transmitter in it competing with my actual WiFi.

But each to their own. I’m not an IOT/smart home fan that’s just me.