N S McVeagh
24 juli 2025
Bluetooth is reliable, pairs easily & charge lasts plenty long enough. Good product, highly recommended.
Robert's reviews
3 juni 2025
In my church, we have a mix of live and recorded music we use. I used to have someone sitting by our sound board, with a laptop. When we needed music, they would start it. This winter, we moved into a smaller worship space and I used a little Bluetooth speaker I had. When we moved back into our larger space, I wanted to continue to be able to run the sound from a tablet, but our soundboard/ amp thing didn't have bluetooth. So I got this, got an adaptor and ran it right into one channel on our board. Since the board takes a larger plug than this has, I did have to get an adaptor. But I suspected I would and ordered one of those when I got this receiver. Now, when we have some hymn or recorded music, I just have my tablet, open that file, hit play and it starts. Several of my older members seem pretty confused, they think I am doing magic or something, put a button at the pulpit and the music starts. I do have to get it "connected" before the service as it does say "waiting for connection" and "connected." But I am a good 20 feet away from the board, and no problem at all staying connected during the service.I used it for 2 weeks (two Sunday's) and then forgot to shut it off. So week 3, I plugged in a portable power supply (battery pack) to charge it as the service was going on. After the service I brought it home, plugged it into the wall and gave it a full charge. No problem going for a few hours, two Sunday's, but it was dead after a week (as I would expect). Just have to remember to shut it off, and bring it home every few weeks to give it a charge.It is perfect for our church, small, was easy to install, and it easy to use.
Rabid
20 februari 2025
Pretty easy to use and does the job well. Sound quality is great. Excellent bang for buck. Takes literally 2 seconds to get up and running. (dust in photo is from my TV lol, 50 cent coin for scale)Thought the USB was for charging/power but it can actually be used on USB capable devices without the 3.5mm 'headphone' cable. Plugged it into one of my PC's USB slots without the 3.5mm cable and Windows instantly recognised it and set it up as an audio device. Streamed no problems.My computer and sound system's are at opposite ends of the house with a couple of walls in the way so signal range and strength seems to be good.Any way PC aside, I actually bought this for my TV as I own a bluetooth enabled surround sound system and my Sony 'smart' TV that has bluetooth won't connect to it.Plugged the Bluetooth Transmitter into the TV's headphone jack, paired it to the surround sound and worked instantly. Sound is as good as when I was connecting with cables. No delays/lag so audio is perfectly synched to video. Got the USB cable plugged into one the TV's USB sockets to keep it powered. Stays paired even when the TV is off. Turn the TV and sound system back on and they're connected.The text in the manual is almost microscopic, so if you have eyesight issues you might want a magnifying glass. My eyesight is pretty good, but I scanned the manual and enlarged it on my PC to read.Not to worry setup is pretty easy as it's literally plug and play and press the power button for 2 seconds.Only thing people should be mindful of is while this device 'remembers' the last device it was plugged into, if that device is not on when you turn this bluetooth dongle on it will scan for a device and try to pair with it, so make sure you have no other bluetooth devices enabled except for the one you want to connect to.In my case I restarted my TV before my surround sound and the device tried to connect to the TV's bluetooth. aka the device it was plugged into lol. Easily fixed with a 2 second button press and disabling my TV's bluetooth.Only con I would say is when pairing the LED flashes red, when it's powered on and in TX (transmit) mode, the LED is also a solid red (it's solid blue when in RX/recieve mode.) so it might be difficult to see that it is flashing when it's trying to pair as a transmitter. (I had to look at it from angle to see it was flashing.) but this is a very very minor con.Now to be clear this next bit is a issue with my TV and NOT the Isobel Bluetooth 5.0 Transmitter and just something for Android TV users to be mindful of. (I have not had any issues with any other device I have tried.)If your television is an Android TV and is capable of doing audio out via USB, recommend disabling that function via the android developer settings.On my TV (Sony Bravia 2015) I tried just using USB sound, no 3.5mm cable and it worked kinda. Normally if I plug in USB headphones it disables the TV's speakers and I get audio only through the headphones.With this sound still came out of the Television as well as the sound system I was bluetoothing to. Telly sound was low volume and couldn't be muted as well as increasing or decreasing volume via the TV remote did nothing. (Sound on surround sound system wasn't as good either)It kind of got stuck like this so had to factory reset my TV to fix it. Disabling audio output via USB on the TV and everything works just fine.Again, NOT the bluetooth transmitters fault, just the way my TV is wired I guess. I'm happy with this device. It is waaaay better than I expected for 20 Aussie bucks.I'm so impressed I'm going to buy another one to use with my phone and wired headphones so I can 'free' my phone. Seriously if you need a portable bluetooth transmitter/receiver give this a go.Anyway if you made it this far, great! Thanks for reading.