Belkin dongle connects your stereo to your iPhone through Bluetooth

Belkin dongle connects your stereo to your iPhone through BluetoothBelkin’s latest dongle — the tiny little Bluetooth Music Receiver — is a cute little gadget: it streams music from your iPhone or iPod Touch to any stereo thanks to the magic of A2DP.

It’s simplicity itself. All you do is plug the glowing, cycloptic dongle into your stereo, either through the 3.5mm headphone jack or using your stereo’s RCA cables. Once that’s done, you pair it with your iPhone, iPod Touch, or other A2DP-compatible PMP, and you’re good to stream music to your stereo from up to 33 feet away whenever you want. It’ll even remember six different devices.

For $50, it’s not a bad buy, although I can’t imagine I’ll take the plunge: 33 feet isn’t very far, and I figure Apple has got to get around to letting me stream my iPhone’s music to my Airport Express network through WiFi one of these days.

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  • Kavok

    I think the better solution is Apple’s Remote app which lets you control your music and let the computer take the burden of streaming to your stereo. Of course that means more hardware, but at least you don’t have the 30′ distance limit.

  • iGenius

    Did you listen to the output?

    I have heard that Apple’s Bluetooth implementation sucks, so that Bluetooth music is badly compressed and sounds awful. I think I read that in a Bluetooth headphone review.

    Is that true? Did you compare the output to a cable hooked up to the dock connector?