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The Complete Handbook of Bluetooth Transmitters
A practical guide for professionals, businesses, and serious hobbyists on selecting, installing, maintaining, and profiting from Bluetooth transmitters.
by Alumigogo Books
Chapter 1: Understanding Bluetooth Transmitters
A Bluetooth transmitter is a device that takes an audio signal from a source that does not have Bluetooth and makes that signal available wirelessly to a Bluetooth receiver, such as a pair of wireless headphones, a speaker, or a car stereo. The source is the device you are listening from. The sink is the device you are listening to. A transmitter is the bridge between a source that lacks Bluetooth and a sink that has it. That is the entire job of the device. Everything else is execution.
Consider a common scenario. You have a television that is five years old. It has optical audio output and RCA analog output, but no Bluetooth. You want to listen to the TV through your wireless headphones so you do not disturb your family. A Bluetooth transmitter connects to the television's optical or RCA port, captures the audio stream, and transmits it to your headphones. The TV does not change, the headphones do not change, but you have added wireless capability to a system that had none.
The same principle applies to a huge range of other situations. You can connect a transmitter to a turntable's output to send vinyl to a wireless speaker. You can connect one to a mixing console's auxiliary send to feed a wireless monitor for a presenter. You can connect one to a computer that has no built-in audio wireless. In every case, the transmitter performs the same essential conversion: wired or