Yamaha’s Portable Bluetooth Speaker January 21, 2008
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Last year, Yamaha was making a lot of noise about its super-powerful USB speaker, the NX-U10 and now it’s hoping to pull off something similar with its portable Bluetooth speaker, the NX-B02.
The in-built Bluetooth 2.0EDR technology allows you to listen to music from your phone or laptop without any of those pesky wires.
With support for A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), it can also handle streaming of higher quality audio than earlier versions of Bluetooth. Perfect for those more expensive DRM-free downloads on iTunes. Inside are two 5W amps and Yamaha has lots of tech crammed in to boost the bass performance.
There’s a 3.5mm jack for hooking it up MP3 players and it can be run off the mains or four AA batteries. Not cheap though at £135 here. -Martin Lynch
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Comments
A2DP is standard for music over Bluetooth. Using it would be pointless for those 'expensive DRM free tracks' because the technology itself is so lossy.
The 'old' Bluetooth you refer to is standard Bluetooth used for voice, which was never intended for music use and is akin to listening to a record down the phone if you try.