Review on AKSONIC Bluetooth Receiver for Speakers - 5.0 Wireless Audio Adapter with 100 Feet Long Range, Built-in DAC, aptX HD, Low Latency, for Home Stereo, TV - Desktop RCA Optical 3.5mm AUX by Paul Newton

SBC is a universal codec (compression/decompression) algorithm that all Bluetooth audio devices must support. It sometimes gets a bad rap for its mediocre sound quality, but it's not inherently a bad codec. If implemented correctly with sound quality in mind, it can sound very good, on par with high quality 320kbps MP3 files. This fidelity is more than enough for almost everyone. The reason SBC sometimes gets a bad rap is because some manufacturers of cheap BT headphones and BT receivers cut corners and make their SBC implementation cheaper. So they sell it at a discount. Axonic has not skimped here. Their SBC implementation is a first compared to the BRX10. The reason I mention SBC is because it is the ONLY codec that supports Windows 10 Bluetooth natively unless you add an external USB BT transmitter to your desktop or laptop. The Windows 10 BT specification provides audio at a quality level of 44.1 kHz at 16 bits (CD quality level) using SBC as the BT transmission protocol. I use this Aksonic receiver to receive native Windows 10 BT digital audio streamed from my ASUS laptop and have no complaints about the sound quality it gives me. However, I do not use the analog cinch outputs. I feed the digital signal received from the BRX10 directly into my Pioneer AV receiver via the Toslink optical digital output. You can buy cheaper BT receivers, but if you use them to receive BT audio from a Windows 10 PC (which, as mentioned, only outputs SBC format), you might not like the results. Cheap BT receivers are usually cheap for a reason. They limit the full potential of the SBC. Get this BT receiver from Aksonic and you'll be very happy with how it handles BT signals being transmitted from your laptop, especially if you're using the BRX10's optical outputs to connect to a standalone DAC or digital input . your AV receiver. The BRX10 is worth the asking price in my opinion. That it also offers other codec options like AAC, Aptx, and Aptx HD is just the icing on the cake.