Bluetake's BT460EX Bluetooth Hi-Fi Audio Station Kit - A Quick Look
by Andrew Ku on November 3, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Bluetake's BT460EX BlueTooth Hi-Fi Audio Station Kit: Package
Seeing as this is a kit, and not just a product thrown into a box with a few accessories, we will be reviewing it as a kit, which means a review of a complete system. |
The BT460EX retail box contains:
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Kit Specs
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Let's get the obvious stuff out of the way first. There is one transceiver, one receiver, and one mini amplifier, all of which are housed within a combination of aluminum (top and bottom) and plastic (sides) materials.
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The transceiver and receiver are exactly the same size with the same AC adapter and RCA ports (ports on receiver are output, transceiver is vice versa). The mini amp has 4 bare wire jacks with a power on switch, RCA inputs (source input), and a volume dial.
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Included in the package are two stands for the transceiver and receiver (mini amp is too large to fit in stand).
Cables:
- 1 x Y cable - 3.5mm stereo jack female to RCA left and right male
- 2 x Y cable - bare wire speaker cable to RCA left and right male
- 2 x RCA left and right male to RCA left and right male (one short and one long cable)
- 1 x Y cable - 3.5mm stereo jack male to RCA left and right male
- 2 x bare speaker wires
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danmcb - Thursday, September 21, 2006 - link
I don't see any reason why a good bluetooth hifi audio solution should not be possible. But not done like this.You have plenty of BW with Bluetooth, provided the signal strength is good and error rate is low, it's no different from sending digital audio over any other medium.
What I'd like to see though is a better engineered solution from a high quality audio manufacturer. This looks like a toy, basically.
Booty - Wednesday, November 3, 2004 - link
Well said. I read the article because it sounded like a cool gadget, but I really have to wonder who would actually spend that kind of money on something like this in the first place. It'd be one thing if it worked, but it doesn't. I would think if the product's audio lag was that bad that BlueTake would wait to release it reviewers (let alone retail) until it was fixed.Anyway, I'm sure glad I read this review before I ended up seeing this at Newegg and deciding to just give it a try for myself - something I've been known to do.
WooDaddy - Wednesday, November 3, 2004 - link
Bluetooth, mini-amplifier and hi-fi should never be used together in the same product or sentence. I would categorize this under the "neat gadget" group but also the "never had a chance" lifecycle. Bluetooth is a wonderful technology but is a PAN - Personal Area Network - for use in personal, meaning body to body, not even across the room situations. Yeah, class 1 is up to 100ft but not really the intent of Bluetooth.Mini-amplifier and hifi = IC based amps != hifi. Nuff said. Also, 20W into 4 ohms? Prolly at 1khz only too.. That, in my book, is not hifi.
My question is what type of speaker are they expecting the end-user to use? I'm kinda confused on that. I wouldn't use this with a true home theater setup (Amp, receiver, 8ohm REAL speakers). Is this for the computer speaker surround sound setups?
Either way, I have two conclusions: 1) Interesting gadget that pushes bluetooth into a realm not expected and 2) great article from the editors at AT as usual.
Oh yeah.. Frist Post!
cathna - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
For me, any BT devices that comes out has to be bought from Hypercel. They carry all the brands, have all the accessories you're looking for at a reasonable price. Just check out their website.