#AIRFOIL AUDIO LAG BLUETOOTH#
Look, I knew going into this that a Bluetooth adapter wouldn’t work for me, but I was still pretty impressed by the value here, given the low cost (about $26) and the quality. But I’ll chalk that up to another Bluetooth-ism. It was still plenty loud, and the speakers do have an on-device volume control if more is needed. The volume was a bit low, and while things improved dramatically when I raised it to its top-level on the phone’s software-based volume control, it didn’t get as loud as it did with Chromecast. It happened immediately, and when I opened up Google Play Music and started playback, it came from the powered speakers. To pair the adapter with my phone, I just had to press on the button on the adapter’s top and then use Bluetooth settings on the phone to complete the pairing. I used the former, connecting the adapter to my speaker’s RCA jacks. The adapter also supports two forms of audio-out: You can use the 3.5mm port with the bundled cable or its RCA audio jacks with a standard RCA cable (which you’d have to provide). The adapter is small and lightweight, and it provides everything you need, including a power adapter with a long cord and an audio cable with a 3.5-mm jack on one end and red/white RCA audio on the other. (Seriously, those Edifier powered bookshelf speakers I keep raving about really are amazing.) And the sound quality and performance, which I expected to be somewhat diminished because of Bluetooth, were both excellent. Because, in my testing, the Esinkin adapter was incredibly easy to set up and use. Or switching to the sunroom’s Bluetooth adapter. Auto-playing audio randomly from my phone (most times, but not all) when I get in the car. That’s my experience with Bluetooth always involves some nonsense. Yep, as I entered the garage, my phone switched playback over to the Bluetooth adapter I had started testing with the speakers in the sunroom.
Which I confirmed by bringing up Bluetooth settings on my phone. And that’s when I had that “oh, yeah” moment, as I knew exactly what happened. As I pulled into the garage, the audio suddenly cut out. I hate that.Īnyway, this time I was purposefully listening to a podcast via Bluetooth in the car. And worse, the car’s Bluetooth system will randomly connect to some audio source on my phone almost (but not quite) every time I get in the car it will almost always start playing some song, podcast, or audiobook, seemingly randomly. For example, the volume is always way too low compared to the in-car audio choices, so I have to crank the volume on both my phone and on the car stereo itself. As a bit of background, I find that experience to be frustrating on a number of levels. I was driving home from the gym, listening to a podcast over Bluetooth in the car. But the bigger issue is Bluetooth itself: I’ve always found Bluetooth to be quirky and unreliable, and while it worked fine in my testing-as noted below-I had one of those “oh, yeah” moments this morning and immediately realized this would never work.
For one thing, it’s not a whole-house solution, which I’d prefer even though most of our home-based music listening occurs via only a single set of speakers at a time. But in the case of the Bluetooth adapter I decided to test first-the Esinkin W29-US Wireless Audio Adapter-I can come to a quick decision.
Testing each of these solutions, in turn, is going to take time: I will literally need to need to listen to lots of music using each in order to determine what works and what doesn’t work. As part of that conversation, I listed some of the alternatives I was considering-or at least test I know some of these won’t work for me-as part of this transition, and I received some interesting suggestions from readers as well. In Rethinking Whole-House Audio (Premium), I wrote about the issues I’ve been having with Chromecast Audio and my desire to move away from the Google ecosystem.
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