Streaming high quality music from your favourite mobile device is now easy with the miniBlink Bluetooth audio converter. Engineered by Arcam, and using the aptX transmission system, the miniBlink allows any Bluetooth equipped music device to quickly and easily send music straight to a Hi-Fi system with stunning quality. The miniBlink uses a high-end PCM 5102 DAC to convert music to a line level output ready for connection to a whole host of audio systems. Installation is easy with a simple pairi
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CHEAP PLASTIC Construction – breaks easily,
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Sounds great but too lite. Needs blue tac to stay in place.,
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Arcam sound, toy-like build, bluetooth unreliable,
It feels like a $10 computer peripheral. Cheap plastic, faux shiny metal paint – quite a let down, actually. And, no mass whatsoever – the cables pull it around whatever surface you want to set it on, and it never really sits “flat” due to this. I tried hiding it behind my Arcam amp, so I don’t have to look at it, but unfortunately that adds quite a bit of interference to the signal – so much so, it often disrupted the audio (crackling/dropouts) from my Macbook Pro from less than 10 feet away. Kinda makes me wish I paid the +$100 premium for the “big” rBlink instead – it looks like the signal would be far more robust with its antenna, as well as hefty enough to stay put with its metal case. Maybe Arcam knew this wasn’t up to their usual standards, as it doesn’t even say “Arcam” anywhere on the product itself.
UPDATE – I knocked off a star, which maybe due to just the faults of bluetooth as a technology, itself. I’ve had it for over two months now. My laptop sits about 6.5 feet away from the receiver most of the time, yet for no reason I often hear crackles and dropouts. Sometimes, I think it is due to the fact that I am sitting between my macbook pro and it, but it doesn’t do it all the time. So, simply background noise in the air? The main point is, it is highly annoying and disruptive when it happens. Is this Arcam’s fault, or Apple’s? Hard to determine, but it doesn’t matter because the listening experience is ruined, and that’s what this was purchased for. Also, of small note – I had sent an email to Arcam support, with no reply.
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