Sennheiser Consumer Audio BTD 600 Bluetooth® Dongle - USB-A/USB-C Adapter with AptX Audio Codecs for Stable, Sound - Listen to Music, Make Calls, and Watch Videos

Must have to fully appreciate high quality Bluetooth audio.

Improved sound quality , just plug it in

Four stars because being a Sennheiser device I assume it will be well made and work well within the intended remit. I bought it with the specific intention of Bluetooth streaming audio from my device to my hearing aids, but it didn't work because there are very specific digital protocols involved, plus the ageing Bluetooth in my device wasn't up to it. Returned for refund.

I bought this as an experiment for my samsung TV, I'm happy to say that it was a success. The TV (S95b) usually only utilises the SBC codec over bluetooth unless you are using another product in the samsung ecosystem. With this dongle in one of the TV's USB ports, the better quality aptX adaptive codec can be used. This solves a lot of connectivity issues with my various games consoles and my Sennheiser momentum 4 headphones.

Update: Since I posted this review, the BTD-600 had a firmware update that has completely overhauled the device and improved the audio quality in major ways. For starters, the most recent firmware update claims to add support for the sample rate, 96khz. I say claims to because that's not what my Qudelix-5K Bluetooth DAC is reporting, and even before this update, Windows let you select 96khz. I suspect even if it did support 96khz, the Qudelix would not be able to receive it at that rate. It uses the QCC5124 chip, and if you look up the features, the chip doesn't seem to support 96khz. The first mention of 96khz audio came with Bluetooth 5.2. With the BTD-600 being a Bluetooth 5.2 adapter, it would make sense for it to support 96khz, but I don't have a device capable of testing it. For the record, it seems that chips that support AptX Lossless use Bluetooth 5.3, so I doubt this adapter will ever receive an update adding AptX Lossless. While I can't say whether it's actually transmitting 96khz, I can say that the 280kbps limit has been lifted. On my Qudelix-5K, I'm able to receive audio generally from 350kbps up to a maximum 430kbps, and the difference in audio quality is significant. Before, the audio quality was noticeably compressed. Not terrible, and the benefits to latency make up for those shortcomings, but also not great. Now, to my ears, it's functionally perfect, and the best part about it is that it does this without affecting latency. It still seems to deliver 80ms of latency, just with significantly better audio quality. This is very different from adapters that have separate low latency and quality modes, like the Creative BT-W5, which seems to at least double the amount of latency when in quality mode, and limits the audio quality in low latency mode, similarly to how this adapter used to work, and that adapter is 25% more expensive than this one, and in terms of its implementation of AptX Adaptive, it's just worse. For this reason, this is an exceptional adapter for movies and games, which, in my opinion, is the big draw of AptX Adaptive. If you just want high quality for music, AptX and AptX HD are open source now. On Windows, you can buy Alternative A2DP for $5 and get high audio quality, without needing separate hardware, and I'd expect more devices to start supporting AptX and AptX HD by default from now on, but high audio quality and low latency is something you can only get from AptX Adaptive, and even other, more expensive products aren't able to deliver what this adapter does. That being said, it's not completely perfect. I noticed some stutter. It's pretty bad when you first connect your device. Over time it becomes more stable, but brief instance of stutter still happens occasionally. Signal strength is far more important now than before, probably because it's not hard to keep a 280kbps audio stream stable, so you're going to want to keep a clear path between your headphones and the adapter, and try to keep distance as low as possible. Maybe this is improved with a Bluetooth 5.2 receiver/headphones, but I can't speak for that.

These don't act as a general purpose bluetooth device, but instead you pair just your headphones to them, and then you can plug this dongle into anything and your headphones are instantly paired to it. The dongle shows up as an audio device. I swap this between my computer, nvidia shield, and PS5 and it instantly just connects my headset and I have high resolution audio with no latency. Latency has always been a problem with bluetooth headphones for me, so these are great.

Słuchawki Sennheiser Momentum 4 po Bluetooth w telefonie grają bardzo dobrze. Po podłączeniu tego transmitera grają jeszcze lepiej. Jeżeli posłuchasz muzyki przez adapter BTD 600 a po jakimś czasie przejdziesz na transmisję po Bluetooth standardowy to dopiero docenisz wyższość BTD 600 Wart tych pieniędzy. POLECAM

Tut was es soll. Auch ist der richtige Treiber drauf, damit Headset telefonie + Sound akzeptabel ist.

Working perfectly, no setup needs to be done. Just uppdat the drivers and your good to go.