Bluetooth audio

[Guest andy1838]

Has anyone looked into or bought any of the following or similar to hook up your phones mp3 player to your hi-fi wirelessly?

Motorola DC800 Bluetooth Stereo Transceiver or the Sony Ericsson Bluetooth™ Media Center MMV-200.

I'm looking to for something similar and would appreciate any tips and/or advice on this.

What is the sound quality like?

Can you hook up to your pc? eg. transmit music wirelessly from you pc to hi-fi.

cheers in advance

[Guest fraser]

Interesting products. Would need to be specifically compatible with your phone; stereo bluetooth is a bit hit and miss essentially.

WRT sending PC to hifi, there are other wireless ways to do that not involving bluetooth. Might be a good move to check them out, they should be simpler and have a better range than BT. Personally I just ran wires round the house for music and hooked it up to an amp in each room. Simple & effective.

Sound quality would be similar to the BT headphones that are available. I'm guessing that they don't send RAW uncompressed audio over the BT, so you might lose quality if this transmission is using lossy encoding. Then you have to consider the digital-to-analogue converter in the base unit for the receiver; that will add distortion. Don't expect CD quality from your mp3s played over BT at the end of the day!

One benefit however is that BT bypasses your phones audio hardware, which is likely to be cheap, nasty and sound terrible. BT might sound better than a straight connection because of this.

By the way, I believe the dock has audio connectors for many phones. With a soldering iron, you could access these connectors and hook the dock to the hi-fi. THat would be pretty neat.