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Bluetoothify my current desk speakers?

Asked by XCNuse (1197points) July 15th, 2008

I’ve been searching for a few minutes now and haven’t been very successful, I’ve come across 3.5mm bluetooth jacks but that isn’t what I’m looking for.

I came across this (http://www.mymemory.co.uk/Bluetooth-Speakers/Sony-Ericsson/Sony-Ericsson-Bluetooth-Music-Receiver-MBR——100)

but that is for a phone, a sony phone that I don’t have anyway, but I want to make my speakers run through bluetooth if I can, I know that there are speakers out there now that work through bluetooth, but I don’t want to buy new speakers, I have a logitech X-230 system that plugs in via a 3.5mm headphone jack, I just want to be able to walk around and actually use my laptop… as a laptop rather than having it stuck on my desk 24/7 to be able to listen to music from my speakers.

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jrpowell's avatar

http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ might work for you if you have Wi-Fi in your laptop. And the range will be much better than Bluetooth.

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XCNuse's avatar

I’m not worried about range, I’ll be within <20ft. range, which is more than plenty.

Airtunes though hmm i’ll have to look into that, that is pretty much exactly what I was looking for, almost.. only problem is is that my laptop doesn’t have 802.11n, just b\g, and I doubt something like that would go over to well with my school’s network which is why I was looking for bluetooth, looks ideal for home though!

thanks much

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aaronbeekay's avatar

The protocol you need is called A2DP—it’s not totally common, but it’s not unheard of. It’s what makes Bluetooth stereo headphones work.

Looking around, I haven’t found very many A2DP receivers. This cute little iPod knockoff seems like it would do the trick. If you have a Mac with Leopard, you can stream audio directly to that little doodad, no dongles required. If you have a PC, you may need another USB device to do the streaming properly.

Alternatively, you could buy a cheap set of Bluetooth stereo headphones, cut them up, and wire them to a jack/directly to your desktop speakers.

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