Bluetooth on a laptop?

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I'm DJing a wedding in Nashville this weekend. Planning to use my new Bose S1 and really like the bluetooth feature. I use this around the house a lot with an iphone. For the ceremony, I've ordered a BT adapter and would like to use that with my laptop. Have any of you guys used BT like this? Any thoughts?
 
I'm DJing a wedding in Nashville this weekend. Planning to use my new Bose S1 and really like the bluetooth feature. I use this around the house a lot with an iphone. For the ceremony, I've ordered a BT adapter and would like to use that with my laptop. Have any of you guys used BT like this? Any thoughts?

I have. Make sure the BT adaptor is quality the first one I had on loan had dropouts. The second one has been flawless except for once and I can't say for sure but I was using it on an iphone and for some reason I think it went to airplane and stopped abruptly. I've never had trouble with it on a laptop

This is the one I had. Steve is rolling laughing somewhere at the Alto logo :)

 
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I'm DJing a wedding in Nashville this weekend. Planning to use my new Bose S1 and really like the bluetooth feature. I use this around the house a lot with an iphone. For the ceremony, I've ordered a BT adapter and would like to use that with my laptop. Have any of you guys used BT like this? Any thoughts?
How old is your laptop? As Brendan mentioned, Most laptops these days have Bluetooth

I did use Bluetooth/iPad for ceremony a few times. It is extremely convenient. However, at a retail gig, I had the Bluetooth stop twice. Not a big deal at an event like that, but made me nervous enough to not use it at a ceremony again. A drop there would be devastating.

I do have an iPad Bluetoothed at gigs to my pro16 or pro32. Those have Bluetooth. It is convenient as a hot back up because my iPad as moving, but when I’m using it as a front line play, an 1/8” to 1/8” gives me much more peace of mind
 
How old is your laptop? As Brendan mentioned, Most laptops these days have Bluetooth

I did use Bluetooth/iPad for ceremony a few times. It is extremely convenient. However, at a retail gig, I had the Bluetooth stop twice. Not a big deal at an event like that, but made me nervous enough to not use it at a ceremony again. A drop there would be devastating.

I do have an iPad Bluetoothed at gigs to my pro16 or pro32. Those have Bluetooth. It is convenient as a hot back up because my iPad as moving, but when I’m using it as a front line play, an 1/8” to 1/8” gives me much more peace of mind

My laptops are several years old. I went ahead and bought a BT USB dongle, but may go ahead and hardwire this weekend. I've used the S1 a bunch with my iphone and have yet to have any issue, but that's in an un-crowded airspace. Thanks for the input and thanks for turning me onto this S1. It's a rockin little speaker.
 
External adapters are the way to go.
1) They can be purchased with better codecs
2) You can mount them for best antenna placement (which is probably not right next to the laptop)

I use BT with my home stereo all the time. My receiver had built in BT but it was standard BT with just the SBC codec (which is pretty bad). My phone supports the aptX HD codec so I bought an external BT receiver that also supports this and it has a digital output for connection to the receiver. aptX-HD supports lossless 24-bit audio. The standard SBC codec sucks by comparison.