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- Compatible with: iPhone, iPod, iPad, Bluetooth enabled PDA's, mobile phones, computers and netbooks
- Includes: DC input, one 3.5mm jack audio output, one phono adaptor
- Incorporates 'apt-X®' technology for ultimate Bluetooth technology
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Product Description
Ever wished you could listen to your favourite iPod tracks on your home audio system? The uPlay Bluetooth Receiver allows you to wirelessly stream music to your home audio system - control remotely and relax for a great listening experience.
Effortlessly stream high quality music, wirelessly to your audio system. What Hifi? and Stuff 5 star award winner! Connect and enjoy...
Features:
Effortlessly stream high quality music, wirelessly to your audio system. What Hifi? and Stuff 5 star award winner! Connect and enjoy...
Features:
- 5-10 metre range depending on angle and surroundings
- apt-X technology, for outstanding audio quality
- Mains powered (includes adaptor)
- Supplied with 3.5mm jack and additional phone adaptor
- iPhoneTM 3G and 3GS iPodTM touch 2nd and 3rd Gen
- Bluetooth enabled PDAs and Mobile Phones
- Bluetooth enabled Computers and Netbooks
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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful
The QED Live uPlay uses the apt-X streaming audio codec which gives a better sound than its bluetooth receiver competition. When paired with an apt-x capable device it sounds less compressed. Apt-x is hardly common though. Even when not using apt-x the sound is better than devices such as the belkin bluetooth receiver. Although the QED then suffers from more compression is is overall a better build than the belkin. Plug it into a power supply and plug the 3.5mm stereo jack into RCA amplifier inputs using the supplied cable and you are ready. Connection and listening in the same room is pain free.
However despite all the glowing reviews the QED device doesn't sound as good as a basic cable. You can still hear compression and artifacts in noises such as cymbals. If you are after sound quality on the cheap, stick with a cable between your laptop, iphone or ipod and hi fi.
If you wish for cable quality in wireless then you need to keep away from any bluetooth technology altogether and go for a device such as LINDY USB Portable Wireless Audio System which uses wi fi (bluetooth 3 devices may put bluetooth back in the frame so maybe wait for an updated device if you are planning on getting a bluetooth 3 phone).
If you wish to improve the quality of your audio device and wirelessly plug it into your hi fi then you need to spend more money I'm afraid. The key part of a device such as the squeezebox is that it has a digital out and can transmit the music digitally to the dac part of a good quality hi fi (any dac, 2 channel amp or surround amp with a digital in). This setup makes music from an ipod, iphone or laptop sound better than they can via an analogue cable. The QED just cannot compete. So if you have a digital input in your kit and are after quality this is the area you need to look into.
If you do not have a digital input in your hi fi and want wireless with quality then you need to be looking at wireless dac devices such as the Arcam rdac, which offer breathtaking quality for the price, and would also improve your tv and most old cd player sound as well.
This kit has its place as one of the best bluetooth devices, but it will dissapoint through any budget seperates kit or anything above. Be midful of what level of quality you are expecting. Mini hi fi's or plastic speakers with built in amplification from the likes of creative will pair quality wise fine but when tested on 3 hi fi's consisting of arcam, roksan, cyrus, dali and spendor kit the sound quality was poor.
However despite all the glowing reviews the QED device doesn't sound as good as a basic cable. You can still hear compression and artifacts in noises such as cymbals. If you are after sound quality on the cheap, stick with a cable between your laptop, iphone or ipod and hi fi.
If you wish for cable quality in wireless then you need to keep away from any bluetooth technology altogether and go for a device such as LINDY USB Portable Wireless Audio System which uses wi fi (bluetooth 3 devices may put bluetooth back in the frame so maybe wait for an updated device if you are planning on getting a bluetooth 3 phone).
If you wish to improve the quality of your audio device and wirelessly plug it into your hi fi then you need to spend more money I'm afraid. The key part of a device such as the squeezebox is that it has a digital out and can transmit the music digitally to the dac part of a good quality hi fi (any dac, 2 channel amp or surround amp with a digital in). This setup makes music from an ipod, iphone or laptop sound better than they can via an analogue cable. The QED just cannot compete. So if you have a digital input in your kit and are after quality this is the area you need to look into.
If you do not have a digital input in your hi fi and want wireless with quality then you need to be looking at wireless dac devices such as the Arcam rdac, which offer breathtaking quality for the price, and would also improve your tv and most old cd player sound as well.
This kit has its place as one of the best bluetooth devices, but it will dissapoint through any budget seperates kit or anything above. Be midful of what level of quality you are expecting. Mini hi fi's or plastic speakers with built in amplification from the likes of creative will pair quality wise fine but when tested on 3 hi fi's consisting of arcam, roksan, cyrus, dali and spendor kit the sound quality was poor.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
I have no hesitation in giving this 5 stars. Pairs faultlessly with my iPad or iPod. Sound quality through my high-end audio system is excellent. It deals with the high dynamic range of classical music with no problem. You get what you pay for.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
This QED LIVE uPLAY is the third bluetooth receiver that I have tried with my (reasonably decent) surround sound system.
The first I tried was Sony's own TDM-BT1 accessory which sounds just awful, and has awful reception. The second was "Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver" which looks great on paper (Bluetooth EDR etc.) but unfortunately sounds awful as well.
This QED device is worlds apart from the first two. The sound quality is really good. I can't detect any signs of low bit-rate compression (and I shouldn't given the EDR 3Mbps link), and sound over bluetooth sounds just the same as when I use phono cables. In theory any Bluetooth EDR device should not be compressing audio too much (given that CD audio is 1.4Mbps), so I don't know what was going on with the Belkin. I'm mostly using it with Spotify on a HTC (android) phone and a macbook laptop.
Anyway I'd thoroughly recommend this QED device if you're even remotely interested in sound quality. It is more expensive but having learned the hard way, you get what you pay for.
By the way in case you're wondering why I didn't just give up on Bluetooth audio, my motivation was my Creative D100 bluetooth speakers which I have in an another room, which sound excellent so I knew high quality audio over bluetooth was possible.
The first I tried was Sony's own TDM-BT1 accessory which sounds just awful, and has awful reception. The second was "Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver" which looks great on paper (Bluetooth EDR etc.) but unfortunately sounds awful as well.
This QED device is worlds apart from the first two. The sound quality is really good. I can't detect any signs of low bit-rate compression (and I shouldn't given the EDR 3Mbps link), and sound over bluetooth sounds just the same as when I use phono cables. In theory any Bluetooth EDR device should not be compressing audio too much (given that CD audio is 1.4Mbps), so I don't know what was going on with the Belkin. I'm mostly using it with Spotify on a HTC (android) phone and a macbook laptop.
Anyway I'd thoroughly recommend this QED device if you're even remotely interested in sound quality. It is more expensive but having learned the hard way, you get what you pay for.
By the way in case you're wondering why I didn't just give up on Bluetooth audio, my motivation was my Creative D100 bluetooth speakers which I have in an another room, which sound excellent so I knew high quality audio over bluetooth was possible.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Does the job, but acceptable quality only when used with APT-X
I thought my requirement was a simple one. I wanted to send the sound output from my new Samsung laptop to my mid-range hi-fi system on the other side of the room. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Hill Dweller
Good device - quality problems with some sources
I've been using a Bluetooth-enabled Sony head unit in my car to listen to music from different smartphones for the last few years, and was perfectly happy with the sound quality,... Read more
Published 18 days ago by Chris Bing
I just don't get it.
I currently have WD Live feeding my pre-amp (DAC) via an optical input. This works fairly well on an above average set-up (mostly Cyrus). Read more
Published 3 months ago by Stephen Graves
Brilliant with apt-x...
Been playing with this all day, and it's a great bit of kit. I linked it to my two main outputs, a yamaha sound bar under my tv, and some B&W MM1 speakers. Read more
Published 3 months ago by P. King
Bluetooth Audio device
Great product! Easy to install works well with I phone I Pad and android. Great sound and full stereo. Worth the money
Published 4 months ago by Skiforrest
Excellent and Easy to Use Product
Bluetooth receiver was very easy setup in the first instance, we've had an Ipad, Ipod, HP Touchpad and assorted phones connected via the receiver. Read more
Published 5 months ago by AGRAYZZ
QED definetly does it
Well it does what it says on the box perfectly. Easy to set up, connects to Ipad first time, plays the music without any drop out or noise. Read more
Published 6 months ago by happy hobbit
Great with iPhone, rubbish with MacBook Pro
It works really well with my iPhone 3GS, but for some reason there's tons of interference whenever I try with my MacBook Pro. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Ben
Exactly what I'd hoped it would be
I wanted a discreet device which would allow me to pipe music out of my iPad 2 to my home surround sound system and this sounded ideal from the description and reviews. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. S. Conley
unreliable
Had one of these since xmas 2010, it pairs fine with both my Samsung laptop and Nokia n8. Issue with mine is sometimes either the volume drops to half of what it was or I get a lot... Read more
Published 9 months ago by nickmac
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