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Relaying music from main hi-fi to bedroom stereo?
gomezz
11-01-2016
I mainly play music on my living room hi-fi from a variety of sources and was wandering if there was a way of wirelessly relaying the music to my bedroom stereo upstairs by plugging something into the tape monitor output of the main hi-fi amp? At the moment I have a pair of wireless headphones plugged in there but they are not always convenient to wear for all activities that I indulge in upstairs.

I have been looking at media streamers / receivers etc but these all seem to assume you are streaming stuff from online services or from files stored on your computer. Do any of these have a line level input I can use?
Chris Frost
11-01-2016
As long as you don't want to play in party mode (because you'd hear the time delay between the main stereo and the bedroom speakers) then there are Bluetooth kits that will connect to a line output. A quick look on Amazon will give you a roundup of the mainstream products. LINK

A word of advice; make sure whichever product you buy has an easy returns policy. A lot of the cheaper BT transmitters are quite flaky at distance. I have a client who tried this as a DIY solution. He has been through a couple of cheap transmitters (£7-£15) and one more expensive one at around £30 and still found that they struggle with the 7m transmission distance he required. I am now fitting Sonos for him. Their Connect (ZP90) has a line input, so that will connect to his Avid turntable going via the Astin Trew amp. He'll be using a couple of the Play 1 speakers in the remote locations.
gomezz
11-01-2016
Well what do you know? I was assuming Bluetooth would struggle to make the distance through the first various walls and floors but just tried it with my existing Bluetooth TX/RX and RX of my earphone set that I use to listen to the cricket while at work and it makes it!

Thanks for that. A zero-cost solution.

Edit: Or maybe not. Just went upstairs again and it had dropped the signal. Perhaps a longer audio cable run from the bedroom to nearer the top of the stairs would make the connection solid enough?
chrisjr
11-01-2016
Originally Posted by gomezz:
“Well what do you know? I was assuming Bluetooth would struggle to make the distance through the first various walls and floors but just tried it with my existing Bluetooth TX/RX and RX of my earphone set that I use to listen to the cricket while at work and it makes it!

Thanks for that. A zero-cost solution.

Edit: Or maybe not. Just went upstairs again and it had dropped the signal. Perhaps a longer audio cable run from the bedroom to nearer the top of the stairs would make the connection solid enough?”

You might find that moving either transmit or receive end even a few inches can make a huge difference. RF is like that at times.

The obvious thing is to make sure both Bluetooth devices are not stuffed behind the stereo systems but out in the open as much as possible to give the signal the best chance to get out and about.

It can be a case of trial and error to find a location for each end of the link that works.
gomezz
11-01-2016
Yep. Will have to experiment. Thanks for your help.
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