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Bluetooth Speakers - your thoughts, please?
60 years of rock and I have tinnitus. Headphones aggravate the problem. Using the near field monitors on the desk at reasonable volumes isn't a problem but then I'm bound to the desk. Sitting on the back patio is ideal for inspiration. Wondering about some of these portable Bluetooth speakers. Do they work with Audiobus? Lag? Stereo separation? Good value/cheap is a must.
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Some music apps support Bluetooth O/P and others don't. I don't think Audiobus will come into play, since it has no direct audio O/P. I've tried a low end (about $45) Sony bt receiver and recently the Bose Soundlink (about $250), and they're world's apart in sound quality. In either case though, latency is a big issue for real time playing. It works well if you're listening to a project, but to try to play with it is impossible for me due to the latency. I have seen where developers are working toward low latency bluetooth, but I don't think it's ready for prime time yet.
Oh well. Using a cable from the iPad headphone jack to an aux in is reasonable. Guess I'll focus on those.
Yep, sadly Audiobus and Bluetooth Audio don't get along very well. To our knowledge it's not really an Audiobus issue but has something to do with apps that have certain audio session settings, mainly recording capability seems to be the thing that makes Bluetooth not work.
Just curious on how this cannot be supported by audiobus ? I just got the Big Jambox bluetooth speakers . Animoog standalone works fine and I can get output from the Bluetooth speaker.
I then fire up Audiobus and add Animoog in the input and "Speaker" in the output and suddenly the sounds now starts coming from the iPad speaker and not the jambox. Shouldnt it continue to come from the already paired bluetooth speaker ?
I then proceed to kill Audiobus , and then we are back in business with sound from the Jambox.
I was hoping that AB output would also come via the bluetooth speaker or maybe AB would have to add an Airplay/BT speaker as an output ?
I have just bought a Grundig bluebeat GSB500 for use - with aux cable connection - as low volume monitor using synths and guitar / ampsims in the livingroom. It is really great for that, good mids and great highs, and still a good sense of bass without boominess. Great for its size and price (94 euro). Also can get loud, but is very quiet. No noticable noise added by the speaker, neither via aux nor through BT. It's a keeper!
Just before I had tried a house of Marley Get Together, as I thought the size of the box and drivers would give better results. But actually it was annoyingly boomy, mids were almost absent and there was noise with highs. Definitely not recommended.
I have tried this and sadly didn’t get any response as Audiobus and Bluetooth Audio don't get along very well. I bought the http://abcotechbrand.com/ Bluetooth shower speakers and seen that Animoog standalone works fine but when we connected with Audiobus, suddenly the sound started coming from the iPad speaker and not from them. Can anyone have its solution?
Something else to consider... Audio quality will suffer over Bluetooth.
@enc said:
Audio quality will suffer (and be subject to interference), and you'll almost always have latency issues to deal with. And that's on top of any latency you already have through your CPU and AudioBus.
At the same time, I feel your pain because I doubt the headphone jack on my iPad is really a quality audio out.
I got a studio monitor for playing guitar (M-Audio BX5) - I tried the headphone jack out into it (1/8" to 1/4" TRS) and it wasn't that great. I assume there are 30-pin or Lightning outputs that convert the audio digitally, but I'm not good enough with that stuff.
Bluetooth wireless audio will not work for any live playing. But using a cable connection works fine for me. It's nice to have a small and chargeable speaker for my type of use.