FiiO BTR3 – Bluetooth Mobility Takes Another Leap Forward

INTRODUCTION

I'm now a big fan of Bluetooth. Recently offerings such as the FiiO Q5 and iFi iDSD have shown us how good Bluetooth quality can be. More companies are experimenting using Bluetooth for transmission, and then sending the signal to a higher quality DAC for final decoding, thereby not losing fidelity to a lesser quality all in one Bluetooth (including DAC on chip) solution. And the overall quality of smaller SoC solutions has also been improving – making ultra-portable Bluetooth solutions very viable.

There is a real freedom in not being tethered. It won't be for everyone, or for all occasions, but if you're entertaining, have a good stereo system, and can have a variety of people share their music (from their smart-phones) to a good quality Bluetooth enabled amp and DAC, it can be a really great experience. Very recently I did this with the IMS X8 and a good pair of passive speakers at my brother’s 50th birthday. We had a ball.

For me the real gains with Bluetooth are portable though – when I'm out and about, and I simply want to lose the wires. FiiO brought us the BTR1 recently, a small Bluetooth receiver which basically turned your wired headphones into a wireless Bluetooth head-set. I really liked the unit, so when FiiO then followed it with a slightly more expensive upgrade in the BTR3 ($70 vs $45), I was curious to check on any improvements. Read on and lets see what the differences are.

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Author: Paul Brooks; From: Headphone-earphone

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