DAC MAGIC & Bluetooth

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Hi

I have a laptop with a bluetooth function on it, is it possible to buy a bluetooth usb adaptor that will fit into the back of the dacmagic and let me streem from my laptop?

Thanks

Andy

 

[John Duncan]

Ooo interesting question, to which I have no answer. I'd be surprised tbh...

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Andy Ford:
Hi

I have a laptop with a bluetooth function on it, is it possible to buy a bluetooth usb adaptor that will fit into the back of the dacmagic and let me streem from my laptop?

Thanks

Andy

I'm guessing no, otherwise, they (CA) would have bragged about it!

 

[Andrew Everard]

Have put the question to the people at Audio Partnership. Will report back when I get a response

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Andrew much appreciated.

 

[Anonymous]

There will be no bluetooth stack on the DM. When u plug a bluetooth dongle into your pc, the operating system needs to have some software that has an implementation of the bluetooth protocol. For example, widcomm in windows, or bluez in linux.

 

[Andrew Everard]

That's what I assumed, but thought I'd ask AP anyway. Who knows? Might give them an idea for the next model...

 

[Andrew Everard]

Sorry for delay - person at AP I emailed was away on his honeymoon, so probably not thinking about Bluetooth stacks too much. The answer is:

"A wireless USB Bluetooth Audio dongle declares itself as a soundcard so that the PC sends it the audio, it then compresses it and then send it over the Bluetooth link a Bluetooth audio receiver.


"The DacMagic performs a similar function and works with a PC by also declaring itself as a USB 2ch audio device so that the PC sends it the audio over USB (uncompressed) which is then upsamples and plays back.

"You can't plug the Bluetooth adaptor into a DacMagic as you'd have the adaptor and the DacMagic both declaring themselves to each other as soundcards and trying to get audio from each other..!

"One way to think of it is that you'd be trying to use the Bluetooth adaptor in reverse.

"However if you can find a completely transparent wireless USB link so that effectively the PC and the DacMagic just think they are just connected by normal USB then it should work.

"If the link only supports a specific USB Class, i.e. it's for wirelessly connecting a Flashcard or a mouse or something then it also wouldn't work."

 

[Anonymous]

Now to find a wireless usb device that will work.....

 

[jonnyavery]

Any news on this approach? I'd like to try this myself. Surely there must be a product out there that simply allows bluetooth to replace a cable so you can attach your laptop to an audio dac usb input??

 

[oldric_naubhoff]

Surely there must be a product out there that simply allows bluetooth to replace a cable

there is: Chord Chordette Gem