Guys about 3 years I purchased a Bluetooth device to enable Bluetooth from my phone to my lanai area. It worked good up until a week ago. I called Crutchfield for advice and I have a bad unit. It is still in protect mode with all speakers disconnected. So I’m in the market for something new. Any ideas. I am running 4 speakers Polk audio at 40w max. So basically 4 channels. What they recommended was 1300 but I just want it to play music from my phone to the patio area through the speakers. Anyone have a economical unit that they purchased from somewhere else
Need bluetooth audio suggestion
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Is it an amplifier/receiver or is it just passing audio to an outdoor amplifier/speakers?
Is the “thing” powering the speakers now what died or is there another device sending audio to your amplifier which sends audio to the speakers? My point is that there’s tons of Bluetooth audio speakers (with built-in amplifier) out there, but if you want a separate amplifier setup then that’s a different thing.
I use an old appleTV as an audio streamer for my living room. But it feeds a separate amp and speakers.
This is my device that died. It was external I believe, not too versed in stereo stuff. It was hooked to my speakers and died
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That’s the amplifier and what powers the speakers. Are you tied to your existing speakers and don’t want to switch? If not, is there AC power available nearby where you have the speakers? They make dedicated speakers for that kinda thing nowadays and you could get some very impressive sounding models for lots less than $1300. One option is the Sonos line of products if that’s a direction you want to go. You can get multiple of them and it’ll stream music to all of them simultaneously.
Gotcha. Do a google search for “Bluetooth audio receiver” and you’ll find lots in the under $200 range.