Bluetake Bluetooth EDR USB Adapter (BT007Ex) Review - Testing and Sound Quality
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With everything installed and paired, I started up an internet radio station. The USB device in the front of the computer flashed blue on and off as it transmited. Apparently it had also silenced the output from the soundcard, because the regular speakers weren’t playing the station. That’s a great touch, since it would be inconvenient to mess around with the speakers every time I plug in the USB device to use the headphones.
After putting the I-PHONO Mini headphones on, I was pleased to hear the radio playing like I expected. Between the internet radio and playing some MP3s, the sound quality of the music transmitted from the USB adapter was pretty good. It is not quite as clear and defined as listening to the iPod BT450Tx transmitter, but it does a good job. There seemed to be less bass and the USB transmitter made the headphones sound slightly cheaper than they had sounded with the iPod transmitter.
The music stream was pretty constant and only skipped every once in a while. I definitely cannot complain about it, as it only had split second skips every several minutes. These skips are tiny and barely noticeable compared to CD skips, for instance. I consider this to be rather smooth, though it’s clear I am using a wireless device.
To test my suspicion that the sound quality was better on the iPod tranmittor, I connected it to the PC speakers and pulled out the USB adapter.
Like with the tests yesterday, if I closed my eyes I couldn’t have told you if the headset was a wired one or not. I stopped noticing skips too. The USB adapter does not sound this good. Perhaps a USB interface just can’t keep up with loud streaming music. However, the USB adapter has two great advantages over the iPod adapter. The first is that it remains powered through the USB port and does not need to be recharged. Second, you can transmit sound back to the computer to record voice or chat online.
The internet chat function took very little setting up. After defining the microphone, I chatted over voice with a friend on Shype. Once again, the conversation was slightly clearer when I was testing the headset with the Motorola RAZR yesterday, but the USB and headset combination holds its own. My friend’s voice sounded accurate and he could hear me well too. Talking over the Bluetake devices sounded very much like talking over a traditional phone line, though it felt like using a handsfree cell phone.
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