Nyrius Songo HiFi Wireless Bluetooth aptX Music Receiver for Streaming iPhone, iPad, Samsung, Android, Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops to Stereo Systems with Digital Optical & 3.5mm Audio Input (BR50)

First off I was mad at this company for putting a label that looks like the top of the unit covering the entire top and when I tried to peel it off so much glue was used it started to bend the top to such a degree I could see inside! I had to stop because it was bending then I started picking off little pieces of the label leaving bits of paper and glue covering the top and I'm afraid to use chemicals for fear it will destroy the thing so it just looks ugly now! Please Nyrius do something about that! This may have been a short glue run like that though ( I don't know). Moving on it has a blinking annoying blue light! Why companies think we want blinking and or bright lights in our faces is beyond me!As for the product performance I'm very satisfied, it picked up my Google nexus with no problem and streamed music to a such a good quality I was surprised, the sound was detailed and transparent and didn't sound ant more compressed but then I'm using a high end DAC to feed the digital signal to so the sound from the digital output will depend greatly on your DAC if you go that rout but the quality is there if you can retrieve it. I have not used the analogue out so I have no opinion about that thought I suspect many are paying a bit more over other BT streamers for the digital out. The streaming did have a few hiccups over a long period of running but it was short and very tolerable. I don't know what caused this because so many links are in this chain, the Wifi router the Nexus or the Nyrius.

I had been using a different bluetooth adapter which worked well enough but I wanted to upgrade to an optical connection for better sound quality from both a cleaner-connection and by letting the DAC in my $1200 receiver do the decoding rather than the DAC in the $30 bluetooth adapter. The Nyrius adapter was MUCH more prone to cutting out if an object (including your body) got in between the source and the receiver. Additionally, the Nyrius has the really dumb feature of only being visible to one device at a time. On most bluetooth receivers you can pair multiple devices and a new device initiating a connection bumps the previous device, easy. NOT so with the Nyrius. To connect a new device, the old one has to disconnect FIRST and it has to happen from the device not the Nyrius. So if you have a couple of phones and tablets etc, and you can't remember which device is paired to the Nyrius, you have to check them all to find out who is connected and disconnect BEFORE the Nyrius will be discoverable as an available bluetooth device.

This tiny box lets you use your legit speakers as an audio output for all your bluetooth devices and somehow does it better than standalone bluetooth speakers (in my experience). I decided to roll the dice on the Nyrius Songo, despite having no prior knowledge of this company or product, due to its price and optical audio port. Turns out the audio quality of the connection is almost flawless for music streaming. No clicks or skips between tracks and no easily discernible drop in audio quality. The range on this is acceptable, I was able to move to another room with a wall between the Songo and source without any breaks in the connection, though any further and the connection degraded rapidly.Streaming audio while watching video is another story. While it sounds fine, there is a significantly longer delay between what you're watching and hearing than there is if you use a bluetooth speaker. It's possible that's a fault of my setup (I'm running the connection through a sound card in my PC) so I can't really dock any points for it, especially considering this is strictly advertised as a music receiver.Bottom line: $35 for this product is a steal. I doubt there are better alternatives with or without an optical audio port.

This product works great and is easy to use. This particular model also has an Optical Out if your system uses optical cables. There is no discernible difference between my previous wired system to this Bluetooth wireless. Due to the iPhone 7 getting rid of the headphone jack, you cannot use the headphone adapter and charge the phone at the same time since they both use the lighting connector. Rather than debating whether or not this was a good idea on Apples design a simple stereo bluetooth adapter solves the problem. Unless you have a great ear and consider yourself an audiophile this adapter is good enough for the common man or woman. Sound quality will greatly depend on your audio source. So far Pandora, Amazon Prime Music and Youtube sound just as good as if you were wired.

We have an old stereo system that pipes to the rest of the house and back patios, and for years we have been hooking up a 2006 iPod to a 2005 Belkin FM-receiver adapter, with decent results. The sound would often develop static, and the adapter's housing wouldn't fit newer iPods, iPhones, and especially iPads, and it is incompatible with the new iPhone 5 Lightning adapter. The Nyrius solves that problem, with a very strong reception, and the ability to play anyone's Bluetooth-equipped device from several feet away. What's more, the 2006 iPod, which like many other older devices doesn't have Bluetooth, but the Nyrius' connection to the stereo is a standard headphone jack adapter on one end and standard red-white RCA stereo adapters on the other, so I can play the old iPod by using the Nyrius' headphone jack adapter in the headphone output of the iPod. The same goes for our old Sony Walkman Ipod contenders, or any device that has a headphone output (CD players, cassette players, iPod Shuffles, Nanos, Minis, etc)

Great Bluetooth receiver. Paired easily with both phone and ClearSounds aptX transmitter.The dual analogue and original optical outputs are nice features and I was surprised to get an analogue connecting cable (dual 3.5mm TRS plug with added female TRS to RCA adapter) which made me feel that they went the extra mile.I am an audiophile and listen to directly connected audio mostly but this convenience adapter is perfect for streaming background music. Would highly recommend this to anyone.

Went for the optical connection model. Sound is great. Bluetooth signal stutters for a split second occasionally, even though my phone is in direct sight, ten feet away. Annoying but not the end of the world and the reason for 4 stars. Otherwise this thing rocks for 40 bucks.

Cuts off sometimes

I wanted a simple solution to connecting my Windows Phone to my exsisting stereo. Works great! Simple and effective. Good purchase.

Does what it claims well!