bluetooth speakers?

[dolph]

it doesn't seem hard, and all of the technology seems to be there. what's holding it back?

 

[dejitaru]

I've seen bluetooth headphones, and I'm sure there are bluetooth speakers, so nothing's restricting it.

 

[0roo0roo]

you'd have to use heavy compression right? doesnt sound that appealing.

 

[Shalmanese]

The quality of wireless (not sure if they are blue tooth or some proprietry thing) are, reportedly crap.

I think that not enough people demand portable speakers that you would probably have to find a power supply for anyway. Any speaker that can run on batteries would probably be too cheap to be bluetoothed.

However, those bluetooth mobile phone headphones are cool

 

[dejitaru]

 

[dolph]

the speakers don't have to be portable themselves, they can still be plugged into the wall. they just don't have to be near the computer. how fast is bluetooth, though? i thought it was at least 1mpbs, which should make 128kpbs mp3s playable, shouldn't it?

 

[talas213]

Bluetooth would have sufficient bandwith. However, the DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) would have to be imbeded in the speakers. The archetecture of today has the DAC on your sound card driving analog speakers.

The cost of the speakers would be more.... you'd need to factor in the cost of the DAC, Bluetooh PHY / MAC, regulators for whatever different supply voltages they required, etc.

Bottom line, it's definately possible.. how much extra would someone pay for wireless (but still requires wall power) speakers ? the real question is... is there are legitimate market case for it (i.e. can you build and sell it cheap enough that people will buy it and you still make enough money).

Personally, I'd buy them only if their cost was within a few bucks of traditional wired speakers since my speakers are always very near my case... a wireless printer on the other hand, I might spend the extra bucks for.

- Talas213

 

[Woodchuck2000]

But what would be the point? The quality would suffer and the speakers would need power of some kind meaning either replacing batteries frequently, or plugging them in, in which case they're no longer wireless.

 

[dolph]

Originally posted by: Woodchuck2000
But what would be the point? The quality would suffer and the speakers would need power of some kind meaning either replacing batteries frequently, or plugging them in, in which case they're no longer wireless.

you're missing the point. i don't want the speakers to be portable or wireless, i just want regular speakers that connect audio with bluetooth. let me give an example: you have a laptop, you're sitting at your couch, and you want to listen to music through your speakers that are on the media center across the room. it's only about 10 feet from you, but you don't want a cord running across the middle of the room, so you transmit the audio signal through bluetooth. the speakers are not portable, they are stationary. think of bluetooth speakers being like a bluetooth printer: no one expects the printer itself to be portable, but it's not the point.

 

[f95toli]

But you would need a D/A, a pre-amp and a power amplifier in each speaker! That would cost a lot of money if you want decent quality.

 

[MrDudeMan]

what is bluetooth?

 

[dejitaru]

the speakers don't have to be portable themselves, they can still be plugged into the wall. they just don't have to be near the computer. how fast is bluetooth, though? i thought it was at least 1mpbs, which should make 128kpbs mp3s playable, shouldn't it?

Yes, but even your uncompressed CD audio would need slight compression.

what is bluetooth?

A new wireless standard not restricted to networking.
http://bluetooth.com/

 

[Topher]

Personally, I'd buy them only if their cost was within a few bucks of traditional wired speakers since my speakers are always very near my case... a wireless printer on the other hand, I might spend the extra bucks for.

- Talas213

Check HP, they had a model out last year (when I lived in Australia), I would assume it came out here, since Australia NEVER got anything before North America or Europe.

 

[Shalmanese]

wouldn't it be easier and make more sense to have the media centre bluetoothed rather than each individual speaker and CD player and Amp etc.?

 

[dejitaru]

Originally posted by: Shalmanese
wouldn't it be easier and make more sense to have the media centre bluetoothed rather than each individual speaker and CD player and Amp etc.?

What if you don't have a media center?

 

[Shalmanese]

Yes, but instead of buying brand new bluetooth speakers, you buy a brand new, bluetooth media centre. Its far easier to produce a range of media centres to suit everyone rather than bother with making everything from hardcore audiphile speakers to tinny $20 sets. What ever speaker range you introduce, it will always not meet the needs of most people.