Avantree Torpedo Plus Portable aptX Low Latency Bluetooth External Speaker for Laptop, MacBook, Desktop PC Computer, DSP Three Sound Modes Wireless Mini TV Soundbar for Seniors, No Audio Delay, Black

Ok. I’d like to share my experience with the avantree torpedo plus Bluetooth speaker. I purchased two of them. I’m glad I did. To be honest, I thought what I was trying to do would be very simple. Unfortunately it was not. I just didn’t have enough information. All I wanted to do was add a Bluetooth speaker in my kitchen and one in my bedroom. Sounds very simple. However it was not. Here’s my setup: I have a Samsung smart tv which plays sound through my home theatre receiver which is a Denon aw-3300. I purchased it about a year ago. The Denon is connected to a wired speaker system. Typical home theatre setup. But all wired. Two front speakers, two rear speakers, a center channel speaker, a subwoofer. Very old setup but it sounds good still. Fortunately, that particular receiver does support Bluetooth. But it only receives Bluetooth signals. It does not transmit Bluetooth. So to get Bluetooth sound in my kitchen I had to purchase an avantree oasis plus Low latency APTX Bluetooth transmitter and hook it to the Denon receiver. No big deal. That product is wonderful if anyone is considering it. Works great. However, I purchased two ultimate ears boom 2 Bluetooth speakers to place in the two other rooms. At the time I did not know what latency was. I didn’t know that your speakers had to also support low latency to avoid a delayed sound. Unfortunately I discovered that not many speakers supported this. I am not putting down the ultimate ears boom 2 speakers. I loved them. I wish I could have kept them. But I returned them. Here’s why: first of all the boom 2 speakers sounded great. But for my application they did not work. When I paired them with the avantree oasis plus transmitter, the sound coming out was delayed for almost a whole second. Unless I was doing something wrong there was no fix for this. That’s because ultimate ears boom 2 does not support low latency APTX. It was so annoying listening to a second delay throughout my apartment. Wow! Terrible. Ultimate ears customer support was very bad because I don’t think they really read my support ticket. Or they didn’t understand it. They responded by telling me to check my iPhone settings etc. My iPhone was never even in the picture at all. I never even mentioned my phone. I was not even using it. Lol. But they were trying to get me to check my phone. Go figure. All I was using was my tv and Denon receiver. Anyway I wish the ultimate ears boom 2 speakers did not have a one second delay emitting sound. But I couldn’t handle that. Very annoying. I wonder why more speakers don’t support APTX low latency? Ok. So I returned the speakers. Then I discovered the avantree torpedo plus Bluetooth speakers. When I saw the support for APTX low latency I purchased two of them. Well. They were amazing. Not a split second of delay in my kitchen and bedroom. Sounds uniform all throughout my place. They also sound very good. Sound quality is excellent but the boom 2 speakers sound better. Not going to lie. Ultimate ears boom 2 are wonderful. But hearing the one second delay didn’t cut it for me. But the sound quality on the torpedo plus speakers is very good. Plus it’s my kitchen. I didn’t need high end speakers for that. Lol. So if anyone is in my boat, buy these speakers. If you don’t need low latency, there are better speakers. But it’s 5 star all the way for torpedo plus!!! They also look nice. Also, avantree customer service is great. They actually respond to your emails.

It took me a while and a fair number of experiments to work this out, but the bar is now working and I am generally pleased.The most significant problem resolved was that the sound bar was incompatible with Firefox, my default browser. After switching to Chrome, difficulties receiving sound from the internet were fixed. I had not seen this particular fix mentioned in the fora I consulted for ideas.Before getting bluetooth to work, I had been able to correct the auxiliary wired connection. This was troubled by the extraneous noise, a hiss or buzz, that was omnipresent. This noise, which all but obviates any advantage in the bar vs. the laptop itself, is absent when bluetooth is used. Thus auxiliary is really not a serious option, at least for my set-up.Customer service was very attentive, but I had better luck on my own.The sound with bluetooth is satisfactory, definitely far better than my surface pro 6 produces. I am able to ramp up the volume with a program I use called Musescore, and it becomes plenty loud, though at some point there is, not surprisingly, significant distortion.Generally speaking I am satisfied with the product. I would comparison shop if a replacement were needed, but I might well purchase this again. It now works and sounds pretty much as I expected for a device at this price.I give it a "4" Positives are quality of sound and attentive customer service. It has also been trouble free once I got the Bluetooth to be functional. Negatives include auxiliary sound buzz and for difficulties in initial set-up. Also a bit surprised that the incompatibility with Firefox has apparently not been recognized previously.ORIGINAL POST: [I don't expect Bluetooth to work, and it didn't. The connection comes on and off, but no matter, there is no sound either way. This is why I selected a speaker for my Surface Pro 6 that could also be wired. This should be a no-brainer. Indeed, so obvious is the set-up for a wired connection that this option isn't even mentioned in the quick-start guide.However, NO sound with wired connection, either. If "Support" comes up with a simple fix promptly I'll revise the rating, but right now this is just another piece of junk cluttering my desk.]