Just making sure ...
What I found here relevant is old and not as clear as I would like.
My laptop (2008 MacBook Pro) has modern BT. I am interested in headphones for audio from my computer. The sets I'm looking at seem to only mention iPods/phones/PDAs but not computers. Provided the computer has BT will BT headphones work for iTunes or sites streaming audio?
Thanks for any help,
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Provided the computer has BT will BT headphones work for iTunes or sites streaming audio?
yes, I don't see why it wouldn't.
IIRC: bluetooth adapter must have A2DP profile.
QUOTE (extrabigmehdi @ Oct 23 2009, 10:20) 
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Provided the computer has BT will BT headphones work for iTunes or sites streaming audio?
yes, I don't see why it wouldn't.
Mind you the A2DP profile transmits on-the-fly lossy encodings, and has quite restricted bandwidth.
http://www.bluetooth.com/NR/rdonlyres/800D...A2DPspecv10.pdf
http://www.bluetooth.com/NR/rdonlyres/800D...A2DPspecv10.pdf
I think there's a confusion between the music streamed between the computer & headphone,
and the music streamed from the internet.
The sound is continuously "streamed" from the computer to your headphone,
and whatever you do on the computer (like listening streaming radio)
is just a different , not related thing.
More likely this A2DP profile is required for any blue tooth headphone.
From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_profile
and the music streamed from the internet.
The sound is continuously "streamed" from the computer to your headphone,
and whatever you do on the computer (like listening streaming radio)
is just a different , not related thing.
More likely this A2DP profile is required for any blue tooth headphone.
From wikipedia:
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A2DP is designed to transfer a uni-directional 2-channel stereo audio stream, like music from an MP3 player, to a headset or car radio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_profile
QUOTE (extrabigmehdi @ Oct 23 2009, 13:10)
I think there's a confusion between the music streamed between the computer & headphone,
and the music streamed from the internet.
The sound is continuously "streamed" from the computer to your headphone,
and whatever you do on the computer (like listening streaming radio)
is just a different , not related thing.
and the music streamed from the internet.
The sound is continuously "streamed" from the computer to your headphone,
and whatever you do on the computer (like listening streaming radio)
is just a different , not related thing.
What are you saying, and to who? I'm confused as to the point you're trying to make.
@Soap
I'm answering to the original question of tim.lance,
especially :
Emphasis added ... All people are talking about streaming audio from bluetooth, while the guy is wondering
if it's have an impact when receiving audio streams from internet.
I'm answering to the original question of tim.lance,
especially :
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Provided the computer has BT will BT headphones work for iTunes or sites streaming audio?
Emphasis added ... All people are talking about streaming audio from bluetooth, while the guy is wondering
if it's have an impact when receiving audio streams from internet.
I dabbled into bluetooth stereo audio before, and it wasn't worth it. For music, I guess it's OK if you don't get too many pops and clicks or don't mind them. I also remember it being noisy, but that could have been the particular device I was using. As has been said above, it uses on-the-fly lossy compression, and if you're listening to already lossy files, they'll be degraded further.
Also and the deal breaker for me, it introduces a noticeable delay that makes it unbearable to watch movies or videos with it. Bluetooth, IMO is a technology that should have been good for many years ago (but it wasn't cause it was prohibitively expensive), but by today's standards, it's slow, unreliable and still has a lot of bugs. I use it with keyboards and mice, but even then I have to try different adapters for compatibility.
There is a standard called kleer that is lossless, but it seems from a quick check that it's expensive and it's not very popular either. Logitech used to sell also a wireless headset that I believe had digital lossless transmission, but I never tried it, and logitech headphones/headsets that I've tried are of crappy quality.
By the way, BT audio in your PC will just add the BT device as another audio device, so you will hear everything, just as if it was another sound card. Don't know about Macs, but I can't see why it wouldn't be the same.
Also and the deal breaker for me, it introduces a noticeable delay that makes it unbearable to watch movies or videos with it. Bluetooth, IMO is a technology that should have been good for many years ago (but it wasn't cause it was prohibitively expensive), but by today's standards, it's slow, unreliable and still has a lot of bugs. I use it with keyboards and mice, but even then I have to try different adapters for compatibility.
There is a standard called kleer that is lossless, but it seems from a quick check that it's expensive and it's not very popular either. Logitech used to sell also a wireless headset that I believe had digital lossless transmission, but I never tried it, and logitech headphones/headsets that I've tried are of crappy quality.
By the way, BT audio in your PC will just add the BT device as another audio device, so you will hear everything, just as if it was another sound card. Don't know about Macs, but I can't see why it wouldn't be the same.
QUOTE (tim.lance @ Oct 23 2009, 03:31)
My laptop (2008 MacBook Pro) has modern BT. I am interested in headphones for audio from my computer.
Sennheiser offers its newly released model "MM 450 Travel".
It supports Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP profile for delivering stereo sound as mentioned above.
For your MacBook please check its bluetooth specifications whether it supports this profile and if you should own an iPhone also: iPhones can communicate via A2DP since OS v3.0
I took notice of the Sennheiser yesterday by this short review published by a German newspaper.
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