Are you the type of person who always likes to keep an eye on new innovations as they hit the market? Are you a gadget-magnet? Someone who will easily purchase any new technology that comes along?
If you’ve answered yes to those questions, then you probably already know what a Bluetooth transmitter is.
But for those of you who don’t know, here is a quick overview.
A Bluetooth transmitter is a device that uses the latest in wireless technology to create a connection to different electronic devices, regardless of the type of operating system.
So for example a Bluetooth transmitter will allow you to listen to the radio or the stereo on your headphones, without actually having to plug those headphones in to the radio or stero via a connecting lead. With the use of a Bluetooth transmitter, you can listen to your favourite music on headphones without having to be right next to the source of that music (the aforementioned stereo or the radio, or maybe the TV or your computer) and you don’t have any annoying connecting leads to worry about.
This is actually a very liberating technology for music lovers who move around a lot and who want to buy a bluetooth stereo headset. Can you imagine how much easier it makes things when you are at the gym for example? Just think, you no longer have to worry about getting your headphone lead caught up in the cross trainer!
An audio Bluetooth transmitter allows you to connect to all these different devices by plugging a small minijack device into the headphones socket of your audio source and then transmitting the sound signal, in Bluetooth format, to your Bluetooth-enabled stereo headset. This allows you to enjoy a clear sound, at pretty much CD quality, at up to 60 feet away from the sound source (with the highest specification devices). Even lower spec models will give you a distance of 20 feet.
Bluetooth is a powerful technology. Signals can even penetrate walls (as long as the walls aren’t too thick).
And just think, you could have headphone dance parties! A single Bluetooth transmitter has the ability to communicate or connect from five to eight different devices at the same time without interference.
Without getting too technical, the way Bluetooth transmits is by using spread spectrum frequency hopping that covers the frequency range from 2.40 GHz to 2.48 GHz. Bluetooth transmitters can hop up to 79 different frequencies at a rate of approximately 1600 cycles per second. Although it is possible that two devices might occupy the same frequency at the same time, this is a very unusual occurrence and generally if there is any interference, it is only temporary.
By way of background, Bluetooth was developed by Swedish engineers in the late twentieth century as a wireless protocol to connect various different electronic devices together. This innovation has now led to the freedom that people enjoy today from utilizing Bluetooth enabled devices.
A Bluetooth transmitter and a Bluetooth stereo headset may not change your life, but the combination will certainly give you the freedom to enjoy listening to your music whenever and wherever you want to, in comfort and in high audio quality. So for that, we thank those Swedish engineers!
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