Glangeh Bluetooth 5.3 Transmitter Receiver for TV, 2-in-1
Glangeh Bluetooth 5.3 Transmitter Receiver for TV, 2-in-1 Wireless Aux Bluetooth Adapter for AirPods/Headphones, Dual Connection 3.5mm Bluetooth Receiver for Hifi Airplane TV Gym Speakers
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I am very pleased with my purchase and it arrived safely, I set up after following simple instructions, but I haven’t been able to try it yet, time will tell.
Yet to use in anger, but at home in Skipton, it works well, just need to sort the ‘floopy’ lead, as it will break, over time!
Fit ‘shoulders’to the wire and firm the link to your 3.5mm output socket.
Super easy to set up.
Performance and quality really good no lag.
Excellent value for money (bought whilst on sale).
Like the adapter for airplane headphones.
100% would recommend.
The device is extremely compact – much smaller than a car key fob for example. It’s perfect for travel where you’re stuck with whatever the hotel room / plane / etc. supports. If it has a headphone jack, you can now connect your Bluetooth headphones to it. If it has an aux input, you can send music from your phone without having to carry a USB C to minijack cable – sure, you have to carry this thing instead but it takes up much less space in a carry-on bag than a cable would.
A minor flaw is that the label on the switch (to choose between transmit and receive modes) is printed in very small dark grey text, on the black background of the shell of the device. This isn’t great for accessibility, as the text is difficult to read unaided. It would have been better if the text was white with a larger font size (within reason of course, this really is a tiny device). Still, there are only two modes so you only need to use your phone camera to zoom in the first time you use it.
Another weakness is the hardwired 3.5mm cable. This is likely on the grounds of both cost and compactness, but the cable doesn’t seem very robust and if it fails then the device would immediately be e-waste. The battery is also not replaceable, making this a disposable device rather than one that will last until it physically fails.
So I moved on to test them with the TV, would be good if we could both sit here and really crank the volume on a film late at night and not disturb the neighbours! Here’s where the fun begins. The living room TV doesn’t seem to have a 3.5mm audio jack. Well that was a surprise! Again, not the fault of this device. Moving on then, the bedroom TV (which used to be the living room TV). I eventually found the headphone out tucked right up behind against the wall and could just about get to it.
Installation was simple and it did work. Latency reared its head again. Youtube was a non-starter. And I couldn’t find a way to adjust the audio sync. Netflix wasn’t so bad however and it was usable. So there’s probably a use case there for us.
I’ve had to dock a star for the simple fact once the unit is plugged in to the audio port of the TV (which is tucked away in the back) you can no longer reach it, or more importantly see any of the LEDs. It’s perfectly possible then that you could be in the middle of a film and everything just goes off when the batter depletes. Again, probably not really the fault of this device, but something to keep in mind.
As the title suggests, a lot of these problems, *could* come down to the latency of the headphones. But also be aware that I only have the one pair to try with this and my headphones could be good (I don’t get any problems elsewhere, like game consoles where latency usually shows up). If my headphones are good then you could just as easily end up with worse latency, in which case I wouldn’t recommend these at all. Sadly, it’s a case of just needing to try them and see how they work out for you.