MonopricePremium Bluetooth 5 Transmitter & Receiver with aptx HD, aptX, aptX Low Latency, AAC, and SBC Codecs and Optical and Aux Inputs Small

I have an older integrated amp without any networking capability. I wanted to add bluetooth so I can stream to my main stereo system. I did some research and looked at the Harmon Kardon (doesn't support aptx), Denon (shoddy antenna design), Audio Engine (good but expensive), and Focal bluetooth receivers, among others. This premium monoprice receiver uses the latest Qualcomm chipset and has excellent reception. I use the digital optical out to feed my Schiit Modi 3 DAC. Sounds really nice. I can walk around anywhere in my house and the receiver stays connected with no dropouts.Overall, I recommend this item. I don't think you need to spend more, unless you need a better built in DAC. I'm not sure which chip it uses. But you can't go wrong using it as a bluetooth "transport" to your external DAC.

Easy to set up. So far I’m using it in receiver mode inputting to a high end receiver. The sound is very good but not high end. It’s an excellent product for the price.

The device connects quickly to my receiver (Qudelix 5k) and transmits in AptX HD exactly as advertised. The sound is great and serves its purpose great.My one issue is with connectivity. It's not always the greatest. When placed slightly behind the TV, connectivity is very poor and disconnects semi-frequently. When moved in front of the TV, connectivity is better but can often be finicky if my receiver isn't in direct sight of it. This wouldn't be terrible if these hiccups didn't cause this horrible loud clicking noise that's much louder than the rest of the audio.Still great receiver for the price. Much better than some other receivers that I've used that would have a channel imbalance that would result in one side lagging behind the other when using AptX HD

Only worked for a short time. Disappointed with this purchase

I thought and assumed they all sound the same, but not so. I've bought a cheap BT receiver not knowing this. Did a little listening and read up some info. Finnally, it's about the supported format for high quality sound. The cheap one is good for talking on my phone and such, but it probably lacked the many codes and/or codec for music. This area can be complicated, but they should have a list of supported formats, not only for MP3, which is not in the rank, Hi-Fi, high definition sound. But the list goes on to suggest the better.This tranceiver I ordered from Amazon got exactly as it described, the above list of code/codec (code and decode)If you are gonna hook up a bunch of portable speakers like I do for three of them, then you'd purchase this BT tranceiver and you'll need a universal 1/8 or 3.5mm spliter. Some name like U-Spliter on Amazon. It comes with about 5 additional output and an extra 1/8 pigtail to plug it in to your source. There's plenty to connection after that. It's universal, you can do this eighter way, it will work.If you'll used speakers this way, my first advice is to manually turn down each speaker, next to nothing. Why? You may get blown away, surprisingly, when connected. Thank me for this one.Now that you got it all way down low, you'll want to turn your phone all the way up and max it out. This way you'll get the most from your phone, as far as BT is concerned.The rest is manual, controlling the volume of each speaker to your likeness. There's my experience with them, and this way there's no confusion of music delay cause they're all on the same page. Good for the party.I've had a couple of small portables I didn't wanted to put them away when I bought a gigantic W King T11. My two Med onn. rugged from Walmart still stand (5yrs). They sounded awesomely great none other can match. I've bought and returned a larger onn. from Walmart it's nothing to compare with the old one. But so the new W King arived, it's a closest and coolest match to that great sound, only 100W louder, not as the two small for about 10W each. Took me 6mos trying to get the best sound for the money. Have you got an ear full yet. Thank you.

This bluetooth receiver is claimed to have aptX-HD but after an hour between online chatting with Monoprice and my efforts the device failed to provide aptX-HD.I put my phone with Android 10 into developer mode, went to system, then advanced, then selected developer options to make the necessary adjustments. I changed the Codec to aptX-HD, sample rate was already 44.1 and changed bits per sample to 24 and always the phone reverted back to aptX with 16 bits per sample without the aptX-HD. Tried aptX-HD with 44.1 and bits per sample at 16 and the phone reverted back to aptX.The Monoprice rep confirmed what I did should have worked, however it didn't.If you merely paired your phone to Monoprice's bluetooth device thinking you had aptX-HD, think again.If you really don't care about the HD, then this device paried easily and worked as a receiver. I did not try any other features. Sound quality was good.There was no manual in the box so be prepared to get it online as you will need it.

I had high hopes, but for the life of me could never get it to connect (properly) to my Jaybird X3 headphones. Optical, RCA, headphone jack... no luck. It would show that it was connected but the best I was ever able to get was weak sound out of only one ear. Not sure if I had a defective unit or if the bluetooth version just wasn't compatible with my headphones, but after a couple days of trying I sent them for a return

Wondering why it has a battery included?

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