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We're finally finishing "phase 2" of a sound reinforcement upgrade at our church.
We have a moderate-sized (capacity ca. 80-100 people) "parish hall" space that was wired up a little before COVID with four 70 V speakers connected to our "house" (sanctuary) PA amp. THe room also was wired with a pair of unbalanced inputs to get an audio signal (e.g., analog stereo output from a computer, or, say, the output of a wireless microphone's receiver) to the aforementioned amp so that we could, e.g., watch & listen to a video in the parish hall.
A while back, we redid the house PA system. Our plan was to take the old (mono) PA amp, move it to the parish hall and set up a simple dedicated sound system in the hall. We did that today
and all works fine.
The one remaining wrinkle: I'd like to add a Bluetooth receiver as an input for the amp, so that a visitor (e.g.) could stream audio to the hall PA system wirelessly (e..g, a Zumba class, which as it happens was meeting there while we were building the rack and installing the amp). In the perfect world*, I was wondering if there exists an affordable Bluetooth receiver with low enough latency to accommodate audio from a computer that's being used to stream video (i.e., to a projector) and get the audio to the hall amp and loudspeakers without a cable, but with reasonable audio/video synchronization). The latter's a nice to have, but I definitely want to add some BT audio support, of reasonable quality, assuming the cost isn't too bad.
A quick look at B&H Photo turns up gizmos like these, which look promising (and are reasonably priced) -- but what do I know?
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...ft_318bt_phantom_powered_bluetooth_audio.html (I like the fact it's a brand name I know, even though I know it might just be a "badge engineered" generic dongle)
... or this (similar but a totally unknown-to-me brand)
Any and all advice and suggestions (even pithy ones!) is (are?) greatly appreciated and gratefully accepted.
Thanks for your consideration!
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* re: nice to haves...
We have a moderate-sized (capacity ca. 80-100 people) "parish hall" space that was wired up a little before COVID with four 70 V speakers connected to our "house" (sanctuary) PA amp. THe room also was wired with a pair of unbalanced inputs to get an audio signal (e.g., analog stereo output from a computer, or, say, the output of a wireless microphone's receiver) to the aforementioned amp so that we could, e.g., watch & listen to a video in the parish hall.
A while back, we redid the house PA system. Our plan was to take the old (mono) PA amp, move it to the parish hall and set up a simple dedicated sound system in the hall. We did that today
and all works fine.The one remaining wrinkle: I'd like to add a Bluetooth receiver as an input for the amp, so that a visitor (e.g.) could stream audio to the hall PA system wirelessly (e..g, a Zumba class, which as it happens was meeting there while we were building the rack and installing the amp
). In the perfect world*, I was wondering if there exists an affordable Bluetooth receiver with low enough latency to accommodate audio from a computer that's being used to stream video (i.e., to a projector) and get the audio to the hall amp and loudspeakers without a cable, but with reasonable audio/video synchronization). The latter's a nice to have, but I definitely want to add some BT audio support, of reasonable quality, assuming the cost isn't too bad.A quick look at B&H Photo turns up gizmos like these, which look promising (and are reasonably priced) -- but what do I know?
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...ft_318bt_phantom_powered_bluetooth_audio.html (I like the fact it's a brand name I know, even though I know it might just be a "badge engineered" generic dongle)
Thanks for your consideration!
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* re: nice to haves...
pretty promising (and still isn't what I'd consider expensive). 
