The Top 3 Bluetooth Music Receivers for Streaming Music From Your Phone/iPod to Stereo Speakers
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Just about any modern phone has a built in mp3 player and can hold thousands of songs. Unfortunately, it has traditionally been tricky to output the music to speakers without the use of specialist wires. Thankfully, modern Bluetooth music receivers make streaming music simple and they have become very inexpensive recently. Here’s the top 3 *inexpensive* Bluetooth audio receivers for your phone or iPod:
1) Miccus BluBridge Bluetooth Audio Receiver
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A sleek little unit with measures just under 1.5 inches long and 1 .1 inches high, the BluBridge packs a lot of features into its little case and features stereo output. Pairing with the device is a simple case of finding the device on your phone and entering the passcode “0000” the first time it is used. Most importantly however, the sound quality is excellent with no noticeable difference between the BluBridge’s Bluetooth connection and the same audio passes through a wired connection.
Apart from its size probably the most impressive thing about this unit is the 8 hour battery that makes the Miccus truly portable – great for listening to your music over the car radio, going over to a friend’s house, or even the occasional outdoor barbeque.
2) Belkin Bluetooth Audio Receiver – F8Z492-P
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The F8Z492-P from Belkin takes a more rounded approach to the design side of things, resembling more a small “puck” than the square Miccus. Easy to use and with perfect audio clarity the Belkin is a great audio product, and cheaper than the Miccus to boot, but it has a number of minor disadvantages as well.
Firstly, there is no internal battery in the unit, so this is a wired product only. This is a non-issue if all you want to do is to listen through the same set of speakers all the time but it does mean that you would have to invest in a power inverter if you want to use it in a car with an audio jack or Bluetooth streaming capabilities. Another small negative point is the range of the Belkin seems to be a little less than Miccus’s effort, but if you live in a small apartment this is great value for money.
3) BT iSpeaker Bluetooth Audio Receiver
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The iSpeaker is the cheapest of the receivers in this mini-roundup by quite some margin. The audio quality is great but the range is also the poorest in comparison to the others with a range of less than 10 feet if you want to maintain clear sound. If you just plan on sitting your phone beside the receiver then it works flawlessly, and turns any audio system Bluetooth capably.
One nice feature about the BT iSpeaker is that the plug is built into the unit so you don’t have to worry about extra wires. For the low, low price, this is a solid product.
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