Avantree TC417 Bluetooth Transmitter Receiver for TV, Optical Digital Toslink, Volume Control for 3.5mm AUX, RCA, 20H Playtime, aptX Low Latency Wireless Audio Adapter for Headphones, Home Stereo

I'm a retired CFO and IT guy who never took NO for an answer. So when they said "Good Luck Finding Something For My Needs", off I went...As you can see in the first pic, my fireplace with the TV on it has no soundbar. I did not want to lock myself into anything that I would eventually change out down the road which would leave unwanted holes in the wood under the TV. I wasn't upset about the TV since the TV mount could be used for nearly any size TV.I wanted my soundbar to be able to be placed anywhere I wanted in the living room. After experimenting with several devices, Avantree proved to be the best overall. Granted, at first I had my 10 year old 55" 3D Toshiba LCD TV on the wall of which I was getting up near a 1/2 second sound delay. Obviously I thought it was just the nature of the beast and shrugged it off as it mostly only happened with live TV. Since I mostly watched streaming video, this delay never impacted my entertainment of watching. After receiving, however, a Sony Bravia TV of only 2 to 3 years old, this delay nearly disappeared altogether in live TV.Okay - so on to the next chapter of my project; I have recessed lighting throughout my living room and adjoining kitchen. I wanted to take advantage of them and add a few recessed speakers or even speaker/lights, although I'm leaning towards just speakers alone for many reasons I won't go into here. I already know this TC417 Avantree has the ability of pairing two devices simultaneously, so I once again set off to start on this project. I started by inquiring of these BT speaker companies whether or not they would work with this device. If they responded at all, their answer was a simple, "NO", of which I won't go into. I was getting very disappointed.Brain Spurt!! Why not ask Avantree who they recommend??? I set off emailing them and to my surprise, not only did they answer me immediately, they helped me decide what to do during the exchange of several emails over several days, VERY impressive!! Their solution? Buy another TC417, (which I was heading towards), and put it in RX (receiving mode) and attach it to any speaker set I want.Does this work as of this writing, perhaps, who knows. I'm certain it will and I will follow up when I complete this project which may take some time as I won't get to it for several months. However, I was just so impressed with this company I simply had to write it up and let people know how great this device is currently working for me, and how great customer service is. For the money, you simply cannot go wrong!!I'll follow up once I get my recessed system working. Thank you for reading and hope you have as much fun with this device as I do.

Instructions were clear. The latency was better than expected - much better than our previous transmitter. I'm guessing the optical cable made a big difference with connection from our TV to transmit to Sennheiser Bluetooth headphones. It shuts itself off when you turn your headphones off so you'll need to Start it for your next use. Very versatile little box.

Everything about this product works as Intended. All wires are included in the box for any use case. This would have been a 5 star review instead of a 4 star if changing the volume wasn’t a task. Currently to change the volume you have to manually click the + or - on the box which is connected to the Tv for my case. This means I have to get up and walk up to my tv to change the volume which is annoying. I wish there was a remote of some sort to change the volume.Other than that it works great and connection is strong.If they release a new version with a remote I would definitely prefer that instead !

I will write a review of this device for a very specific use and because I hope it may help someone else since before buying it nobody was able to confirm if my setup would work or not with this device.I bought this transmitter to connect 2 pairs of Bluetooth speakers that can play in TWS (True Wireless Stereo) since my idea was to install 4 Bluetooth speakers embedded in my walls in my living room to play music or watch movies with a completely cable free setup and a nice stereo sound. With TWS you have 2 Bluetooth speakers that pair between each other and one play the left audio channel and the other one the right audio channel. I had 2 pairs of these one pair in the front and one pair in the back. Once the 2 speakers are paired in stereo mode you can pair one of them to your Bluetooth enabled device, like cellphone or android tv for example.So I bought 2 pairs of Oontz angle3 raindance Bluetooth speakers and this transmitter. With that device i would be able to play 4 speakers at the same time from my cellphone or from my tv or androind tv. Even Avantree support told me it "would likely not work" but I still bought it and well.....it works amazingly!! I can either connect my cellphone via 3.5 mm cable to play music on 4 speakers in stereo or connect optical output of my tv to watch movies on this completely wireless setup!! This is great! I must say for movie watching on my tv there is a small audio delay induced by Bluetooth but it is still decent. For music it is really perfect! So if someone is trying to build up a similar setup know that it will work at least i can confirm it works with rhe Oontz Angle3 raindance Bluetooth speakers but not sure with another brand. Hope that will be useful to someone with the same idea.

I purchased this to set up two headsets using the optical out. Obviously, everything was connected and hidden behind the TV so it wasn't an eyesore. I connected it to USB power so it always had power at all times.It worked fine once it was set up but the next day it didn't work.I had to manually get behind the tv and turn it on again. I did this for three days and is was getting very annoying.On the off hand chance maybe something was set up wrong, I contacted the company to ask about this issue and how I could set it so that it always stayed on and ready to use.After a week of back and forth emails they finally said that the device worked correctly, but that it was not designed to stay on. Essentially, the design of the device was poorly conceived.Their first suggestion was to return it (which I did) and buy their more expensive unit (which I didn't). Their customer service was poor at best.I purchased another similar device which was actually less expensive than this one and it worked perfectly. It doesn't shut off in between uses.If you don't want to have to get up to turn it on every time you want to use the device, then steer clear of getting this one.