Audikast Plus - Bluetooth 5.3 TV Transmitter, Dual Link, 100ft

Avantree Audikast Plus Bluetooth 5.0 Transmitter for TV with Volume Control, aptX Low Latency Audio Adapter for 2 Headphones (Optical, AUX, RCA, USB), Class 1 Long Range 100ft - No Receiver Mode ASIN# B07TLHRPDP I spend a few hours each night watching TV with my Mom, her time is getting short. She is also hearing impaired. I have a Trond BT transmitter that I've been using because on the great room TV we can pair with 2 sets of earbuds at the same time. The Trond(s) work great, but the reason I purchased this Avantree, because while using the Trond (I have 3, I tried all of them) on the TV or Roku device when paired with 2 sets of earbuds, the sound on one or both pairs would stutter and cut out repeatedly after about an hour of usage. So I figured the problem was the Tronds, turns out I was wrong So when hooked up the Avantree to the CATV, Roku, DVD - the sound would begin to stutter and cut out after about an hour of usage as well. I am stating this in case anyone out there has similar issues that this might help and save you a lot of frustration. And here was the problem. My Mom listens to TV on her earbuds ALL DAY long, the MPOW’s (currently sold on Amazon as MSTHOO and Ruebitrue, best all around earbuds you can get for the money) that I had purchased for her can hold a charge for a good 6 hours or more, and she uses them for around than 14 hours total, mostly for the news during the day. So both of her sets of earbuds go through an entire charge cycle every day. I purchased these most recent ones for her in December 2021 for Xmas. The problems started around early to middle of May 2022. After ruling out everything else and a whole lot of angry frustration, I had come to realize that the batteries on the earbuds had weakened and would start to fail at about 60 to 90 minutes of usage. So I am guessing they’re good for about 100+ charge cycles or so, they still work fine on their own, but when 2 are paired on the same transmitter they begin to have issues. Even if my pair of earbuds were almost new, if one pair of earbuds out of the two was weak, it would cause both pairs to stutter. (unless the receivers on the earbuds are burning out or weakening, still a possibility) Now back to the Avantree. The range was great, I could walk all the way out to my fence outside my home which is about 50 - 60 feet away, strong and clear signal, even with 2 sets of earbuds on at the same time. (I initially thought the range in the details was exaggerated, it was not, but see above for that issue) It was very easy to pair 2 sets of earbuds, just push a button, and the second set would connect. And it has a volume control, very handy on the Roku because the volume on that is weaker than on the CATV box. (The Roku is also on a DONGJIAN audio extractor, the main TV line out is awful, I had to use the line out/Roku remote with a BT transmitter, latency was very bad, and the extractor completely eliminates all latency on this device, COMPLETELY) Unfortunately I ended sending the Avantree back, not realizing the problem was the earbuds battery, weakened by high usage. If I realized that the earbuds were the problem, I would’ve not only kept this one for the CATV, I would’ve purchased another separate one to be used for the Roku so I wouldn’t have to switch them back and forth between the 2 devices. I hope the folks over at Avantree are reading this, my humblest of apologies, this whole Bluetooth tech is brand new to me, I didn’t start using any Bluetooth devices until September of 2020. I give this Avantree 5 stars all around, and I will be getting another one quite soon. I highly recommend, especially at the price point, it is HIGHLY competitive with other transmitters of this type. I hope this helped.

It does just what I needed it to do...or so I thought. Turns out I'm an idiot and haven't paired headphones in so long I forgot how to so I thought my Samsung TV would only paid to Samsung headphones. So I bought this lol. Turns out I don't actually need it but instead of returning it amd getting my $50 back I'm keeping it and I'll tell you why. First of all pairing headphones to it is extremely easy. It supports two pairs at once just like my tv does so that's cool. But the real reason I'm keeping it is twofold. Number one it supports more codes than my tv does. I tested it using my Sony XM3 using SBC, aptX, and LL. Second reason I'm keeping it, which is by far the biggest reason, is it most definitely boosts volume over what I'd normally get from the optical connection. I just use the buttons on the headphones to control the volume. It's a beautiful thing and to me is most definitely worth the money. I have mine hooked up to a remote control power outlet so I can turn it on only when I want it on instead of using the tv usb that would power it all the time. I just switch my tv to optical, turn on the remote control power switch to turn this unit on, turn on my headphones and it just connects. I have 5 different pairs of Bluetooth headphones and so far I've hooked up the 2 I really wanted which is the Sony XM3's and Skullcandy Crusher Evo's and man the Evo's sound the best and get the loudest even over my Sony's. Pairing the Samsung Buds Pro2 and 3 is a bit more difficult bc the TV grabs that Bluetooth signal over everything else so I have to pair to this unit with another device and keeping the tv off so it won't steal the Bluetooth connection. Man if it makes those 2 ear buds louder like it does these 2 that will be CRAZY bc they already sound so good. I'll do that when I get around to it. For now this little Bluetooth transmitter is awesome. It's literally the only one I could find that boosts the volume using the optical input unless I was looking to spend far over $100. This things so great I even bought the 3 year extended warranty for $7 which i mever do but just in case lol. I usually buy 2 or 3 of things I really like but not on a $50 device w an extended warranty lol. It sounds really good to my ears and I haven't experienced even the slightest bit of audio lag. The sync seems to be right on time and I'm using the SBC codec at the moment. Aptx is even better! Sweet little box I really like it!

First off, I'm likely going to be paid for this review. I "won" payment via a card I received with the product and also from a different card that was sent via the Post. The cards ask for an honest review, but all show a picture of 5 stars on it. As a result, 4 stars is the best possible overall rating I will give. So for me, this receiver works exactly the way I hope it will. I wanted to have a transmitter that had at least a 3.5mm jack so I could plug it into my TV or my New Nintendo 3DS. This requirement was met is easy. The sound quality was something I was keeping track of these last few months. My best experience was with the optical TosLink input. It could be my TV, but the transmitter sounds the best through optical vs the 3.5mm. My TV doesn't allow for volume control through the TosLink, so I had to manage that manually on the transmitter itself. The volume controls on the transmitter works with my AirPods pretty well, but sometimes I wished that there were more increments as some levels were just a little too quiet or just a little too loud. It could be the AirPods, but this isn't an issue for the many other devices that I use with my set. Latency I'm pretty sure will be different device to device. For example, the Bluetooth speaker I have has horrible latency with this (this is true with everything I pair it with). It's almost a second behind. But with my Airpods Pro, the lag was nearly imperceptible. Some media like video games I can just about notice it, but watching Youtube or Crunchyroll I can't and my immersion stays intact. So yeah, these were the things I cared about the most. Other nice things are that it is powered off the USB on my TV, so no additional plugs. My TLC 615/617 does not turn off the USB so I need to use the switch. Your TV might, but mine does not. A quirk that I don't know is good or not is that the Bluetooth connection is very aggressive. If your audio device is on and is open to having its connection changed at any time like the Airpods are, this transmitter will steal that connection anytime it's turned on. It will fight with my iPhone for about 5 tries until it finally gives up. Compared to my PC where it won't try a second time unless the dongle is powered off and on again. This transmitter is relentless. Range feels short sometimes. Best to keep line of sight with the transmitter. I'd say the range is about half that of my iPhone 8. The lights aren't too bright which is a good thing in my book. Easly bright enough to understand what the device doing but not so bright to be distracting at almost any angle. So yeah, super happy with the product!

This unit will work with a set of Bose Bluetooth headphones. They work perfectly, in fact! I originally bought this unit very concerned that it would not work with my mother’s Bose Quiet Comfort 35 II. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have Bluetooth on her television. The headphones worked great on a fire cube, but I decided to go back to cable. I wasn’t sure if this would also work with my TIVO box, but because the television is wall-mounted, I thought it would be easier, as it was obvious, I would have an easier time plugging up the wires. I noticed that my TIVO box has two USB out ports, so I plugged the included USB power cord right into one of these, and the unit powered up perfectly. I then plugged up the optical cable into the back of the TIVO box as well. Because I was using an HDMI cable for both picture and sound, I didn’t need to use the TIVO optical port, it was just not being used. It was a perfect opportunity to use the included optical cable, that came with the unit. I was so pleased because all this meant that now I did not have to go behind the TV at all. The first thing that I did was to hold down the power button on my mother’s Bose headphones, in order to clear all previous pairings. I wanted to make sure there were no conflicts, besides I was only going to use these headphones with this device. Now everything was going perfectly, except for the paring of the Bose headphones. Others have complained that Bose headphones will not pear at all with this device, however, patience is the key here. I too had some difficulty and was convinced that the Bose headphones would not properly pair with the device. I was only more patient because I was used to paring the Bose headphones with my mother’s Amazon Fire Cube. It used to give me trouble when attempting to pair the Cube and the Bose headphones together. Sometimes, I would have to try several times to get them to work together. I had to wait and wait for them to finally connect. Sometimes I started over and even restarted the Cube box again to make them both work together. However, my efforts always paid off, for once they pared, they worked wonderfully. This experience taught me to be patient, and to not be too impatient when trying to pare my Bose headphones to this Avantree unit. It took a long time, and I almost gave up, when suddenly my Bose headphones informed me that a connection had been made. I was so very pleased. Now I know I can use the unit on my television as well as my TIVO BOLT. Perfect, not only that, but I can also watch TV while my 93-year-old mother continues to listen to her headphones. Because the television is connected to the TIVO BOX with an HDMI cable, the sound is being sent to both the headphones through the optical cable, and the television speakers through the HDMI cable. So, if my mom wants to watch television alone, all she has to do is turn down the volume on her television and listen quietly on her BOSE headphones with the Avantree unit. If I come into the room and want to watch Television with her, all she has to do is turn up the regular volume on her Television, so I can listen too. This was so easy to install, I was very surprised at how easy it was to get it going, all I needed was a little patience. Our house is once again quiet, for this is a great little unit. In conclusion, this unit will work with Bose Bluetooth, just be patient. This will work with TIVO, but I only mentioned TIVO in case you also have a TIVO box as I do. This is an advantage, but you don’t need a TIVO box at all to make this work, I am sure it will work perfectly on your television at home.

I spent so much time to pick the right Bluetooth transmitter that I was even afraid of buying one based on all the bad reviews with 1-2 stars. However, I can't understand now how come someone have such bad experience - this product is completely flawless. My best buy of the year! I have a Hesh 2 headphone paired and it's working now for months without any issues. Initially I tried to connect it to the output of my Yamaha amp but that didn't make sense because during the day I want to use the loudspeakers and use the bluetooth headphones only at night. Instead, I configured the amp to simultaneously send output audio through HDMI to the TV (the TV is always muted) then connected the USB power and optical out from the TV to the Avantree Bluetooth transmitter and that was it! Now I can just mute the amp at night and turn on the headphones! Super quick an easy! All digital audio without any noticeable delays with my Shield TV streaming box - as I'm very sensible to that. Also, pairing with my headphones took me seconds and only had to do it once!!! On top of that its super tiny so you don't even realize it's there and the led indications are super helpful to see what's connected. I very rarely give 5 star rates but this time is totally fair. [Update after 1 year of use] I had some issues in the meanwhile but Avantree Support was super responsive. There's something to keep in mind that does not come in the manuals. One day I decided to pair my PC headphones (jabra) with the BT transmitter and totally regret it because I was not able to UNPAIR it! Tried to reset the transmitter and the headphones but it kept connecting to the headphones! The thing is, this transmitter when ever it's on, it will hijack any device in pair mode! Even if the transmitter is not pairing!!! So every time I was turning it on it out hijack my headphones since they were in pairing mode. To resolve this I had to reset everything and leave the transmitter off, then pair the headphones with the PC again and only then turn on the transmitter. Another issue I had was due to a mix of headphone's codecs. One was FS (Skull Hesh 2) and the other was LL (Sennheiser HD 450BT). When both were connected the transmitter downgrades to SBC because that's the only codec that both headphones support. However SBC is really bad for video because it introduces a big delay. The solution was to buy a second headphones with LL.

Bought it cause we have to watch movies with headphones when baby is sleeping. I've read few reviews that were quite positive. So here are pros and cons after one week of work. Pros: 1) It works. There are minor issues with sound, occasionally it breaks for a sec, but overall it's fine. 2) device is pretty small and can be powered from any USB port with a cable. I use it with my epson projector that has a dedicated USB port at rear panel for power. Cons: 1) first impression - it's too lightweight for its size, feels like empty and cheap 2) the process of pairing it with headphones is somewhat cumbersome. Sometimes it connects immediately, in other cases I have to turn it into pairing mode multiple times before it gets connected. Furthermore, I'd expect that once paired, next time headphones will connect automatically like they usually do with other devices, but it seems it's not the case. 3) I use cable with mini-jacks on both sides to connect it to projector. When I first connected everything, before I started streaming, I noticed noize in my headphones. It was easy to hear when nothing was playing, but when I played video it was almost gone. To get rid of it, I had to pull mini-jack slightly (just 1-2) millimeters out of port on device side, and then noise was gone. 4) finally, I use two different headphones - good sennheiser that support Aptx, and more primitive earbuds that support only SBC. In that setup, device will stream everything in SBC. 5) after about half an hour, I loose sound in my sennheiser headphones, although it's still on and Avantree indicates that headphones are still connected. At the same time, sound still goes fine to the second headphones. No idea what could be the reason, just assume that it's not caused by headphones, cause I used these sennheiser many times to watch movies and it can work for hours. UPDATE: After I used it more than a month I can say that it's not worth it. It just can't reliably transmit sound to two headphones at once. Second channel is loosing connection every now and then, and then never connects again - have to turn device off and on again to reconnect headphones.

I love this product so much that I bought a 2nd and will soon by a 3rd. Simple to use. It just works. Once paired, if you turn it on it immediately connects. Range is impressive too. stays connected when rooms away. I bought this because my hearing is bad and need to use headphones or my hearing aid via bluetooth. One of my TVs doesnt have bluetooth and this solved that problem. I have it connected to the optical audio out of my TV. This allowed my wife to listen to the TV normally while I listen through my headphones or hearing aid (Phonak hearing aid connects via bluetooth). We also each can control our own volume independently! Sound quality is great. I have a 2nd TV that does have bluetooth but its a pain to get my hearing aid to connect. Really frustrating. So I bought a 2nd one and dont need to fight my TV anymore. I have 2 more TVs and there's likely 2 more in my future. When I got my 2nd one, I was having trouble connecting it to my hearing aid. I called the support number and got connected to someone without a wait. She was awesome and very professional. She got me connected immediately. Its one thing to make a great product and quite another to provide great support! Highly recommend this product.

I purchased this Bluetooth transmitter for its stated ability to transmit the aptX-ll codec to two headsets simultaneously. It was a dismal failure. It worked fine with a single headset, but as soon as a second headset connected to the transmitter, both had dropouts and static that made listening impossible. I tried with two headsets of the same brand, different brand aptX-ll headsets, and even tested with SBC codec headsets to see if it could handle two of those. Nothing worked. Then I tested with two transmitters simultaneously to check whether the problem was overcrowded 2.4 GHz spectrum. That test worked fine with using the aptX-ll codec for each headphone-transmitter connection. The problem was clearly the Audikast transmitter. I also ordered a second Audikast unit to see if I just had a lemon, but both did the same thing. I also had problems with the second headset connecting to the Audikast after it had been turned off. Didn't matter if the headset used aptX, aptX-ll, or SBC. All had connection failures if another headset was connected first. If you are only going to use one headset with the Audikast, everything works great. If you intend to use two simultaneously, don't bother. Sadly, I've been through several different aptX-ll transmitters, and most have this problem. The only one I've found that works at all is the Avantree Orbit, which will successfully broadcast two aptX-ll streams simultaneously. However, the Orbit also has the second-to-connect failure problem . Still evaluating whether I can find a way around this with the Orbit, so I haven't left a review of that one yet. Frustrating.

Ho atteso qualche settimana, prima di scrivere questa recensione, perché desideravo testare per benino il prodotto in oggetto. Quindi passiamo alle mie valutazioni e impressioni. Partiamo con Il dire che il trasmettitore è molto compatto pertanto poco ingombrante. E' fornito con vari tipi di cavi audio oltre che di un cavo usb che serve, tra l'altro, anche per alimentarlo. Ha un tasto per l'accensione e lo spegnimento quando non in uso. Per configurarlo ho seguito pedissequamente quanto riportato nel manuale di configurazione allegato. Come da loro suggerito, ho collegato l'apparecchio al mio tv Sony tramite cavo ottico. Una volta impostato il sottomenù "suono" del mio tv come da manuale, il dispositivo risultava perfettamente configurato e pronto per l'accoppiamento con le cuffie bluetooth. Le cuffie da me utilizzate con questo apparecchio, sono una coppia di Sound Blaster JAM V2 (sempre acquistate su Amazon) dotate di Bluetooth 5.0 e di codec audio avanzati, aptX™ HD e aptX™ Low Latency. Anche in questo caso (seguendo la manualistica a corredo del trasmettitore e delle cuffie) l’operazione di riconoscimento e di accoppiamento delle due cuffie con il trasmettitore è stato abbastanza semplice. Una delle caratteristiche di queste cuffie, oltre ad aver la già citata gestione del codec Low Latency (fondamentale per seguire l’audio con il TV) è la possibilità di regolare direttamente l’audio in cuffia facendo diventare superfluo l’uso del telecomando del TV. Tornando al trasmettitore, posso affermare che le cuffie, una volta accoppiate, restano memorizzate con i rispettivi canali anche se dovessimo spegne sia il trasmettitore che le cuffie. Il trasmettitore inoltre, alla successiva accensione si imposterà automaticamente sempre sul canale LL (Low Latency). Per quanto riguarda la latenza, con le mie cuffie Sound Blaster JAM V2, non ho notato nessun ritardo nel labiale ne alcun tipo ti interferenza tra le cuffie e il trasmettitore segno questo, che il sistema così configurato lavora davvero alla grande. Ultima nota l’audio e buono ovviamente, non aspettatevi effetti Dolby Atmos, Digital o similari. Il sistema non è nato per questo. Per concludere, posso affermare di essere estremamente soddisfatto di questo apparecchio perché soddisfa molte delle mie necessità come dimensioni ridotte, utilizzo di entrambi i canali audio in simultanea, assenza di ritardo e/o interferenza con le cuffie ed infine, la possibilità di tenerlo spento quando non in uso. Cosa dire di più se non ottimo acquisto da consigliare.

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