A day with out RCA cables....bluetooth

[jester73440 10+ year member]

Anyone think we will ever see it? no more running patch cables. just plug in a bluetooth plug and pair them. Anyone hear of any companies looking into this? Would you use bluetooth in place of RCA cables?

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[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

Sure, if it worked well enough...

 

[TeenWolf 10+ year member]

Yes, if it worked as well as RCA's, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

 

[Expy2000]

Naa I will stick to my Stingers RCAs...

I am just waiting on the day when we can use USB sticks on our face units..

yah.....

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[netherland24 5,000+ posts]

Naa I will stick to my Stingers RCAs...
I am just waiting on the day when we can use USB sticks on our face units..

yah.....

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there is a clarion where i think u can do that. i know u can store in it hard drive music.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Not going to happen anytime soon, nor would I want to see it happen.

For wireless to match the SQ of a hardwired system, that's going to take a lot of bandwidth. Where's that bandwidth going to come from? You can't magically make more frequencies appear, they need to come from somewhere. Chances are, they're going to be in use by some other service.

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

They can have a band at a live concert play wireless, so why not in my car //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[Expy2000]

there is a clarion where i think u can do that. i know u can store in it hard drive music.

POS Junk.. why there are not others.. always has been..

ozz well

IMO

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[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

id rather pay 10 bucks for RCA's than over 100 for some stupid bluetooth adapter, which will never beat a directly wired connection.

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

Its possible - and I would welcome not having to fuss with overpriced RCAs

 

[Silver 10+ year member]

not hard to run a RCA to amp. so to me... pointless, BUT it would be cool. Wireless 4ch amp //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif.

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

It would have to be inexpensive enough for the normal person to buy it for it to be worth it and marktetable. Makign it cost as little as RCA wouldnt be worth it to the maker. So I dont see it happening, also, I would worry about reliability.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

Bandwidth shouldn't be a hinderance, as an entire CD track could be transmitted at full resolution in mere seconds; Rather than playing realtime.

Which also offers an advantage when it comes to skipping, which eliminates the need for anti-skip mechanisms / floating heads which may offer a tradeoff on cost.

Entirely possible.

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

I think you guys are missing the point. Why is it that everyone wants to see something like this?? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif Everyone wants to see "quantity over quality". No one wants to put quality first. I mean now a days when someone is shopping for a new head unit one of the first things they look for is one that plays mp3s. Don't get me wrong I like mp3s but they are POOR in SQ by comparison to cd. This is the single biggest reason why MOST high end car audio gear has left the US, no demand for absolute SQ. Its all about the bang for the buck.

Instead of finding new ways to transfer a signal from one component to another I'd like to see a mfg optimize the signal being transfered first. I would much rather worry about purchasing rca cables than wondering if my new wireless system is going to work right today or is there going to be electrical interference issues with the signal. I guess this has turned into a rant and for that I'm sorry. I just would like to see these people start making use of the technology available today for improvements on QUALITY of the signal instead of new gimmicks and light shows.

-end rant.

 

[jester73440 10+ year member]

I just thought of it after buying a bluetooth head set for my phone and seeing how great it works. Then I was helping a friend run another set of RCA's to his new amp and all the troubles he is having with fitting 3 sets of RCA cable behind his radio ( Heater vent runs right behind it no clearence). We don't have to wait for new amps to come out just a class 1 bluetooth plug made for RCA's will work. My bluetooth plug for the computer was like $4 off ebay and only 20 in stores

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

And when you said that about you blue tooth thing, thats the first thing I thought about also, peoples' phone headsets. Which is why I would worry about reliability. Everyone, which is only a few but still, that I know that has bought a blue tooth headset has had a few issues from time to time. And it seems like for no reason. If that had happened to me with my system because of the blue tooth equiptment I would be pissed to no end, especially when you are driving and cant stop to mess with it.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

Digital offers greater 'quality' than analog, because digital doesn't change, distort, warp, or decay.

And, mp3s can be encoded at a high bitrate; much in the same way a 200k .JPG image can be just as crisp as a 6mb .BMP

The fidelity of the BlueTooth connection becomes irrelevant, as if it's transferring digital information (with error-correcting) at a greater rate than it's being decoded (ie; played,) there's no loss of quality. [shrug.]

I think you're missing the point; If the data is intact at the point of transmission, error correcting allows it to be reconstructed as it's received, to make an exact digital duplicate of the original "signal" at the point of conversion;

The bluetooth 'receiver' would then convert that data, at full quality, into an analog or digital signal (RCA? SPDIF?)

Thereby assuring that the weakest "SQ" point of the system, or the part where the sound deteriorates most from it's original source, is NOT the BlueTooth connection, but likely the analog amplification device, or the reproductive mechanism (speaker.)

The advantage being no signal loss through cables - the signal/music/data would get to the amp intact, at full fidelity.

So, do your research. An mp3 doesn't have to be "Poor in SQ." It can be 100% accurate, and still maintain a smaller filesize than a .WAV (your likely format of choice.)

JPEG is to BMP as

MP3 is to WAV.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

Imagine bluetooth power wire adapter. Just dont get caught as a ground. Or it's bye bye for you.

One of my friends actually said the Xbox 360 was all wireless. Including the power. I was like OMFG you are dumb...

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

And when you said that about you blue tooth thing, thats the first thing I thought about also, peoples' phone headsets. Which is why I would worry about reliability. Everyone, which is only a few but still, that I know that has bought a blue tooth headset has had a few issues from time to time. And it seems like for no reason. If that had happened to me with my system because of the blue tooth equiptment I would be pissed to no end, especially when you are driving and cant stop to mess with it.

Those items (wireless mouse, keyboard, cellphone headset) are often battery powered.

Amplified antennas become possible with a powered system.

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

They can have a band at a live concert play wireless, so why not in my car //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

Most, if not always, analog, relatively narrow freq. range for each instrument(mic), MONO. The actual instrument (production)amp speakers are mic'ed, by hard wire, to the reproduction PA system.

I've thought about wireless and also of purchasing an educational FIBER OPTIC kit for audio, trying an unbalanced system, etc. but heck, RCAs work, they're cheap, and they're already run.