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Review on 🎧 StarTech.com Bluetooth 5.0 Audio Receiver with NFC - Wireless Audio Adapter BT 5.0 - Extensive 66ft (20m) Range - 3.5mm/RCA or Digital Toslink/SPDIF Optical Output - HiFi Lossless Wolfson DAC (BT52A) by Jessie Ritchie

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Tried two of these, both had terrible range

When I hooked up the first one and saw what a terrible range I thought it must be an accident, a single bum. I couldn't even walk 10 feet with a line of sight without starting to drop out. If anything else, or even a trivial block (like a sofa), I get permanent disappearances. This item has a high rating so I thought it might not be representative of the product as a whole. So I asked Revane to send me a replacement. The same thing. Just absolutely terrible communication range. Have returned both and ordered Besign BE RCA https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XMRMK6F/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 at half price and I have yet to experience a single failure even after running them all am about my house with the original audio device. I have to believe that since all this positive feedback, something key has changed in the design of the StarTech BT2A because the two I tried didn't even work. If I have to be right in front of the device to stay in touch, why on earth would I use Bluetooth?

Pros
  • HIGH SOUND QUALITY: This receiver uses a Hi-Fi quality Wolfson WM8524 digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to deliver rich and high-quality sound to capture high-resolution/lossless audio files
Cons
  • boring packaging