QED uPlay Puck Bluetooth Receiver

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.The unit itself feels really nice to hold and has a nice soft grip on the bottom to sit snugly on top of anything and stay put. The cables with it seem like good strong quality and the product as a whole just has a nice quality feel to it. I plugged it in, held down the button for a few seconds and then it paired straight up to the iPad without any fuss and in no time at all, I was playing tracks from Spotify through my hi-fi. Within Spotify there is a nice little control where you can shift output between iPad and uPlay which is nice.Sound quality is lovely and it's never dropped connection once, quite an impressive piece of kit really.Little tip, set your device to mute when listening to music, doesn't stop the music but does stop notification messages pinging out through the hi-fi. Buy this device with confidence, it's a treat.

Lovely little device. Certainly reproduces your music to a higher quality than a lot of the cheaper A2DP Bluetooth receivers. I have both types, and have tested some lovely BT Speakers at length. Between the A2DP types and this little Apt-X Puck, there isn't an astounding leap in quality, but certain times you do get a sense that the Apt-X codec is just that bit clearer and cleaner. It depends what you listen to, of course, and how fussy you are.I think this little Puck sounds just great. Really great in fact. And it would be very good value for money, except ... it's a bit unreliable.You can't always connect to it. Despite trying from different devices, and despite testing those same devices connecting to other Bluetooth receivers in other rooms, sometimes it's just not available. You can pair with it, but not actively use it. Has to be switched off and then on again.It also makes a big drama out of connecting and disconnecting, with a needless digital beep to let you know how clever it is, followed by a loud pop from the speakers. I have other receivers that are perfectly happy just to connect with your phone, or whatever, without the big beeping and popping ceremony we see here.I wanted to love this more. It looks lovely, and comes with some beautiful cables. But it's too unreliable. And the popping and the beeping are ... sad to say, a little annoying after a while. Especially if you're steaming from something like Last FM or Spotify and there's a little gap between songs. The Puck seems to feel the need for a little nap and either when it wakes or sleeps ... "pop" goes the speaker. After each song (pop) or before each song (pop), or after a few moments of silence (pop) or when it hasn't been used for a few hours (pop) ... it's kind of (pop) annoying (pop), though not as much as the connecting bleep.Nice try QED. If it wasn't for the pop and the beep and the unreliability, you'd probably be the best.Would be happy to try them again if the update this particular line.

I really wanted this product to work.I have a top-range Android phone (a Galaxy Nexus); a top-range Android tablet (a Nexus 7); a top-range laptop (a MacBook Air late-2010); and a bottom-range laptop (a thai Benq Joybook) - all of which I use to play music on. Sadly, this product highlights the truth about decent-quality Bluetooth audio streaming: it doesn't work.This product is really well-built; the audio leads it comes with are excellent quality, and the product itself feels premium. It sits on top of the hifi quite happily.The audio quality, too, is excellent. Some people here claim you can hear compression artifacts and other things, but to me, it sounds just fine, and I couldn't hear any degradation.Apart from the crackles and gaps that make this product unusable.Whatever the reason, none of the devices I own are capable of streaming for more than five or ten minutes before they suffer from short gaps and pauses in the audio stream. These gaps last for a fraction of a second, but because they sound as if they're buffering problems, they don't just create irritating gaps in the sound, but also disrupt the rhythm of the music, too.With four different devices, I'd understand if some weren't capable of consistently streaming decent quality audio: but not all of them. It's not just this receiver - a Bluetooth speaker I own also exhibits the same issues, on every device I own. It's not interference either, since this has happened in three separate locations. The only thing it can be is a fundamental issue with the technology.For me, I'll be getting a wired dock for the tablet, and giving up all hope of using Bluetooth in future. It's clearly not fit for purpose.

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.

Tantôt l'Ipod, ou le smart phone des copains, tantôt l'ordi, la connexion à la chaine stéréo est simple, un petit boutoon pour le jumelage et c'est parti.Quel confort.

Ich habe mir den QED gekauft um vom Handy aus Musik über externe Boxen wiederzugeben können, ohne Kabelverhau auf dem Schreibtisch. Dazu habe ich folgende KombinationSubsonic Server zuhause, Subsonic Client am Handy holt MP3s mit 192VBR und gibt sie über Bluetooth an den QED, der steckt an Creative Labs X-30, damit ich eine Fernbedienung für die T40 Boxen habe - und das geht einwandfrei und klingt gut.Ich kann bei dieser Konfiguration keinen Unterschied hören, ob die Musik per Kabel oder per Bluetooth zu den Boxen kommt

positiv: der UPlay Puck Bluetooth Receiver macht einen sehr hochwertigen Eindruck Kabelverbindungen inklusive, sehr kleines Gerät sieht sehr schick aus die Bedienung ist wirklich sehr leicht.Klangtest der Gegner war ein TaoTronics für 36 € und ein älteres Gerät von Logitech ca 30€.eins fällt sofort auf der TaoTronics ist fast doppelt so laut und auch der Logitech ist etwas lauter.der UPlay hat einen etwas präziseren bass dafür hat der TaoTronics bessere Höhen und eine bessere Raumverteilung und insgesamt mehr Volumen der TaoTronics ist einfach spritziger und kostet noch nicht mal die Hälfte.der UPlay ist aber noch vorzuziehen vor dem Logitech der allerdings auch schon einige Jahre älter ist.Für den Preis einfach zu teuer wer den Preis nicht scheut bekommt aber ein gutes Gerät mit leichter Bedienung und gutem Klang.und hochwertiger verarbeitet als TaoTronics.

Installation rapide et facile. Reconnaissance par les appareils Bluetooth OK. Le son est de bonne qualité.Mais mon appréciation globale est différente suivant la source.Source "tablette", c'est parfait.Source "PC portable TOSHIBA satellite" récent, il y a coupure de son dès que quelqu'un se trouve dans le champ entre émetteur et récepteur. (distance respectée inférieure à 10m : environ 5m)On peut supposer que cela provient de la mauvaise qualité de l'émetteur du PC, car le phénomène est évacué avec tablette ou i-phone.

Dieser Artikel entspricht allen meinen Erwartungen.Einfach einschalten, auf die Verbindung mit dem Bluetoothgerät warten und Ton hören.Das Ende.