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Ever wished you had a tiny device that would let you add bluetooth support for an older stereo, a television set, or even your car stereo? The Soundbot SB336 Bluetooth RX/TX does just that, making it easy to enable bluetooth on a receiving device like a non-BT car stereo or self-powered speakers or enable Bluetooth on a transmitting device like a television. And it works surprisingly well.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ tries out the Soundbot SB336 and finds it's just what he needs to add Bluetooth to his fancy Vizio television.
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can this tiny thing solve all your
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Bluetooth woes let's find out Dave
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Taylor here and I want to talk about
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Bluetooth not bluetooth as in your
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smartphone or bluetooth as in your
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computer or even your headphones I want
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to talk about Bluetooth itself and the
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fact that oddly and a little hard to
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understand not every device in the world
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has bluetooth capability it's really
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kind of inexplicable but luckily you
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have this this is a product called the
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soundbot SB 336 and they call it a
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two-in-one wireless transmitter and
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receiver for Bluetooth so what does that
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mean it means that if you want to be
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able to have say some speakers or your
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stereo and be able to be music to it
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from your smartphone via bluetooth
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perhaps you can use this as a receiver
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and then your phone connects to this
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this is plugged into your stereo or your
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speakers and boom now you have Bluetooth
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really cool but where this gets even
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more interesting is that it works the
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other way too you can use this to
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transmit music via or music or whatever
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actually via bluetooth so where would
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you use this well here's a photo of how
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I use it with my television so my TV has
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a lot of capabilities it doesn't have
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bluetooth transmission but with the
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sound bar I can plug this into the
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television audio out Jack and then plug
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power into the USB connection on my TV
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and this is a self-contained Bluetooth
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transmitter now I want to tell you that
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it's a little tricky to use it took me a
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while to figure out how to pair things
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because there's no display so you don't
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see like a list of your headphones where
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you choose the one you want so it's a
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little more nuance than that on the
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receiving side if you want to use this
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and you're beaming
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to it that's pretty easy you just turn
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it on power it up you can see there is a
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built-in 3.5 mm
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meter jack so this would be something I
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might plug this into my stereo
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and then there's it's basically
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impossible to see but there's a power
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switch on the front surface let's see
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and then now there's a tiny LED that
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will light up and of course on the side
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as you can see here there's a big switch
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that lets you switch between transmit
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and receive mode so if I put it in
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receive mode and I plug this into my
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stereo and you'll notice it's running on
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battery then I am ready to beam to it
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from my phone my friend's phone my
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computer
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anything that can push a Bluetooth
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signal this can now receive and you just
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pair it and then you're done in the
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other direction let's say that I want to
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pair this with headphones and use this
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to transmit the content from my
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television right instant really good
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fidelity really easy to work with so
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this took me a while to figure out what
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you need to do as you put it in transmit
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mode and then you turn it on and then
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the light alternates between red and
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blue and when you're seeing that it's in
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pairing mode then you take your
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headphones earbuds whatever it is you
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want to pair with and you put that right
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next to it and put that also in pairing
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mode and they just sort of negotiate the
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protocol and then they just it works
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suddenly it's paired and it took me a
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couple of times that messing around with
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it to get it to work but it worked great
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with my momentum headphones which are
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really nice high-end sign Heiser's and i
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plug this into the TV like I said I used
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the included micro USB to USB connector
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plugged it into my TV's USB and I was
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ready to rock and roll and I was
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watching a video of a concert and
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hearing really good music on my
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headphones via bluetooth from my TV that
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doesn't have bluetooth how cool is that
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right so this is a pretty cool little
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device now it does have a battery and
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the battery doesn't work super long it's
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a 15 hours in transmission mode and
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eight hours in receive mode which I
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guess is not bad but the thing is you
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can plug it in to charge it or you can
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plug it in and
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leave it plugged in and so that's what I
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was doing with the television as you saw
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in that earlier photo I just have the
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whole thing plugged in it's taped to the
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back of the TV so it's invisible and
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it's permanently transmitting so as long
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as I have those phone headphones
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dedicated to this device I am ready to
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go whenever I want I turn on the
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headphones give it a couple of seconds
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and I'm ready to listen and watch
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whatever I want on TV without bothering
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anybody else particularly useful late at
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night when you have children so handy
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parenting tip there now the soundbot has
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a2dp support and if that means that your
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device that you're connected with
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actually will do volume and next in
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previous and call management if you want
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to use this with something that takes
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telephone calls so on my headphones when
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watching TV I can use the headphone
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volume control to actually go up and
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down in volume because this doesn't have
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a volume control and I don't want to do
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it with my television because generally
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the audio out of the device doesn't have
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volume control sometimes it does often
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it doesn't no it's a switchable transmit
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receive it also supports multi
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connectivity if you want to pair to
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headphones or two devices simultaneously
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when it's in transmit mode haven't done
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much with that but I think that's
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actually pretty cool so again you can
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actually have dedicated devices paired
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to this maybe a speaker and headphones
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depending on how you want to use it and
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this will also I just want to point out
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this would also be pretty cool in your
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car if you have a car that only has an
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aux jack and you really wish it did
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bluetooth here's your solution that
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means in either direction but of course
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mostly it means you can use this as a
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receiver you plug this into your car and
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now you can stream off of your phone
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whatever it is you want without having
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to have yet another connection inside
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your car system itself super easy super
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painless comes with the cable and it's
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actually a hundred and twenty milliamp
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hour battery so it's pretty tiny
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actually but now again eight to ten
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hours somewhere around there or just
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leave it plugged in and it works fine
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let you upgrade your stereo whatever
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you want suddenly you have Bluetooth
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literally in something this tiny so the
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only thing left to talk about is its
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price and it's way less expensive than
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you think
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but hey before we get there do me a
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favor and click on that subscribe button
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and if you find this useful and
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informative also go ahead and give me a
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thumbs up man cuz I appreciate the
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feedback so all that's left then to talk
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about is with the soundbot SB 3 3 6 2 &
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1 wireless Bluetooth transmitter and
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receiver how much would you pay for this
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it's less than that it's $17.99 at
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amazon.com that is a crazy small amount
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of money it's worth getting just to play
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with an experiment at that price so
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soundbot SB 336 pretty sweet little
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device takes a little bit of messing
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around to figure out how it works but it
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works and it works well Steve Taylor I'm
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going back to that music video and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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