So I have a head Injury and I get confused so please be patient with me. I am in no way a audiophile. I have decent equipment I guess. I have been working on my car for two year kind of neglecting my home audio. I kinda want.to tell you what I use so you may get a better idea about me and my spending power. I have Macintosh taste with sony money. In my car I use helix amps and.dsp. Morrell 3 ways up front. Morrell coaxial in the rear deck and millie legends in my rear doors. Mobile audio 12 inch sub. So you are probably saying why is this newbie telling us what is in his car. Well it gives you an idea of what I can afford. I purchased a bluesound noid 1 3 or so years ago. I mostly play them though my airpulse a300 pros in my room and airpulse a300 in living room. Headphone wise nothing spectacular. B n o h95s masters and dynamics md75s edifier stax 3s razor krakens and my new ones bower and.wilkins px7s2e. If I misspelled anything sorry I did my best. Ok so the bluesound when working is ok I guess. It.is wonky as heck. Especially bluetooth. I purchased a Samsung s23 ultra thinking it would have better sound. Oops it doesn't. Ok if your not asleep here is my question.... bluesound has to go man. I was looking at bowers and wilkins formation Cambridge audio cxn v2 or cxn 100. I really would like to get the most out of my headphones bluetooth wise. And of course my bigger speakers would be balanced connection. Do they have sub outs? I have a Polk audio 10 (not that good) I also have a b700 edifier not sure if that matters. Any hoo if this make any sense I would.love advice.
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Bluesound not as good as avertised
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i think your main beef is that your bluetooth connection with your S23 and your Node 130 is not very good???
that shouldnt be a thing these days???
I've used bluetooth audio is a professional industral setting where there's miles of stainless steel pipes and other big ass room filling electronics and monitoring equipment and its been pretty flawless and this is a on a slew of phones and headphones etc...
the Node to me looks like pretty expensive piece of equipment for whaf it does but since its an NAD house brand (???) then I guess that's what they think the customer can afford
that shouldnt be a thing these days???
I've used bluetooth audio is a professional industral setting where there's miles of stainless steel pipes and other big ass room filling electronics and monitoring equipment and its been pretty flawless and this is a on a slew of phones and headphones etc...
the Node to me looks like pretty expensive piece of equipment for whaf it does but since its an NAD house brand (???) then I guess that's what they think the customer can afford
Welcome. Take a look at Wiim products. They perform all the functions of the bluesound at less price and better measured performance. Also, if you are having problems with Bluetooth specifically, you should be able to "cast" to the bluesound from your phone using wifi depending on the music streaming app you use. That will be a higher quality more stable connection.
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Bluetooth is part of the problem, it doesn't have the newer Bluetooth codecs. At least that what I understand. And it just doesn't work well . With the md75s it will recognize them all the time. Sync with them sometimes. And make a popping noise (think dirty trebble from a bad tweeter) can't tell if it's the md75s (which are way overpriced ) the hp95 and px7s2e will not even show up. It doesn't see the b700 soundbar either. It drops wifi all the time. I went got a netgear night hawk and repeater based on advice from the folks who sold me the bluesound. I love Nad used there receivers for years. Maybe it is something I am doing. Just frustrated. I wanna hear my tunes.
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Yes and if the s23 had better quality like ldac adpt hd x that would be great. Or am I just over thinking it. I guess if you pay for hi res you want it to work. I also get that both ends have to have the same codecs kinda of confusing
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Ok ,.... so play music from tidal to the bluesound. Pretend I don't know much lol.
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Bluetooth with stands codecs SBC/AAC and even APTX HD does that. LDAC high bit rate (990 Kb) properly integrated much less and where you can't really hear it (beyond 20 KHz) but has a very limited range even with photos that have very good antennas (Sony mostly this day's now that LG is out).
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There is no need to use BT in first place. You use streaming services integrated trough the Node app and it streams directly to the unit trough network (which is loseles to the source). If you want to improve latency/dropouts consider going directly with cable to rooter from Node. If you wish to improve performance which is not great but I guess it won't make much of a difference you can use optical Toslink output from the Node to self stand DAC amp/pre I guess it makes sense at least for headphones. Of course no one is forcing you to stay with Node, WiiM has a nice range of streamers, MiniDSP (SHD range) has streamers integrated in their DSP range as well and there are Yamaha integrated amplifiers with streamers (Musicast R-N range). I would try to live with Node as you have it already and for its HDMI ARC input (if you need that in the first place).
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Cool. Open tidal. Play song. In the top right corner there is a little icon that looks like a speaker with sound waves coming out of it. Push that icon. There should be a list of devices on your Wi-Fi network you can "cast" to using Tidal Connect. Your bluesound should be one of those. If it's not there. Check your instructions for your bluesound on setting up tidal connect.
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I had absolutely no idea, thank you. I will start working on it. I found the speaker etc. There were no devices there except the s23. Holy shit that blew my mind. Thanks for your help you Just saved me 1k dollars
Let us know how it sounds once you get a chance to try it out.
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