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2 HN users recommended this in 2022, in 2 comments.
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2 HN users recommended this in 2022, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
My "it just works"-setup is the following: all devices are connected via a cable to a cheap audio mixer, including one Bluetooth receiver to which my phone can connect to.
The mixer has a long cable to a well positioned spot in the apartment and the cable ends with a Bluetooth transmitter. A small (4cm x 4cm x 1cm) Bluetooth receiver has wired in-ear headphones connected to it and that's it.
This receiver has small a magnet glued to it, and the desk has another magnet glued to it. The USB-charging cable also has a magnetic adapter so that the micro-USB end is left in the receiver, and when I leave the desk I just have to pull the receiver way, which stops the loading process since the USB cable is also easily separated. When I get back to the desk I just snap the receiver to the magnet of the desk, and if I feel that I should charge it (no issues with using it 6 hours without charging it), I just snap the magnetic end of the cable to the receiver.
Every device which wants to send me audio can do it, and I can move freely around the apartment without any interruption.
When I go out I use another Bluetooth headset connected to the phone.
The annoyances listed in the article would drive me absolutely mad.
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Basically 3 of these: https://www.amazon.de/1mii-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Dual-Verbin... (one for phone, long cable sender, magnetic receiver)
one of these: https://www.amazon.de/Moukey-Mischpult-Mikrofon-Keyboard-B%C...
one of these: https://www.amazon.de/JEEREE-Magnetisches-Schnellladung-Magn...
and all the cables needed to connect the devices to the mixer.
I have this setup for some years now, so my gadgets are not the ones listed here, but an older equivalent. APTX-LL removes any noticeable delay between video and audio.
Honestly, this thing works pretty well for my use case: https://www.amazon.com/Moukey-MK0149-RD-FR-Ultra-Low-Noise-6...
It's not quite the same thing as the TX-6, but if I were to go to the substantial effort of making a small mixer product marketed to people like myself, that's the sort of competition I would be intimidated by, not Teenage Engineering.