Adapters Archive

Car radios have been in existence since 1930. Back then, you could get an AM radio added to your car for $130, roughly $1,500 in today’s money. Thankfully, you don’t have to spend extra money to get a car radio today. Better yet, you can plug a phone, tablet, or MP3 player into your speakers, or connect via Bluetooth. This is way better than the …

Just a few short years ago, Bluetooth was nothing more than a novelty. Now, it’s the standard method of transmitting audio between devices. If you’re picking up a new portable speaker or a pair of headphones, there’s almost no reason to stick with a wired model. These devices are pretty cheap on their own, so upgrading isn’t a big deal. Unfortunately, we can’t say the …

Suppose you want to use some Bluetooth speakers with your TV, and you don’t want to mess with the expense and headache of a large media control system. There’s a simple solution: a Bluetooth transmitter/receiver. These devices take your TV’s RCA, aux, or optical signal and convert it to Bluetooth, which you can then pick up with a pair of Bluetooth speakers or headphones. Today, …

If you spend a lot of time on a game console – or if you’re using a PC that lacks a Bluetooth connection – you may feel left out of a lot of today’s headphone discussion. To be sure, there are plenty of good USB and even 3.5mm aux headphones on the market, and many of them are well worth buying. But they lack the …

Over the past couple of decades, Bluetooth has totally redefined how we think of connectivity. Instead of a rat’s nest of tangled wires, we now have over-the-air connections for our phones, our earbuds, and an array of smart home devices. All of this is well and good, until you find yourself with a device that isn’t Bluetooth enabled. So what do you do if you …