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The Handy Nulaxy BR01 Bluetooth Receiver - Reviewed!
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May 29, 2025
I bet you own a lot of audio devices that would be more useful and functional if they included bluetooth capabilities. But from a car stereo to a pair of old headphones, you can't just add that feature. Or can you? That's the purpose of the budget Nulaxy BR01 bluetooth receiver: a tiny gizmo you plug in and can then stream audio content via bluetooth. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checked the BR01 out and ran it through some tests to find that it worked quite well and is a fun and easy upgrade to your audio gear. Check it out at https://amzn.to/2w13yc0
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can this have bluetooth to any device
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you own let's find out Dave Taylor here
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and I'm looking at bluetooth I'm looking
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at devices that don't have bluetooth so
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our device stand-in is this this is a
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JBL charge 3 and it has the most
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important thing which is an aux-in so
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we're using this the kn'l axon and it's
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a little tiny bluetooth receiver with
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aux and you can plug it into anything
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and boom now it has bluetooth so let's
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give it a quick world just as a first
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demo iPhone 10 no lack C device JBL
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speaker and JBL actually really likes to
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be on its side so you get the engines
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too we got plenty of music going on here
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and it's working and as you can see you
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know your phone doesn't have to be super
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close let me go ahead and pause that so
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that's actually really nice because in
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this case this speaker actually already
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speaks bluetooth but imagine it didn't
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or imagine you had headphones that you
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really wanted to use wirelessly but they
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weren't bluetooth headphones or even
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more likely imagine you have a car where
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you do have an aux plug but you don't
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have bluetooth of the Bluetooth doesn't
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work anymore plug this thing in and boom
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you're up and running now let me tell
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you a little bit about this so this is
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working off a Bluetooth 4.1 and it
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supports two simultaneous connections so
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you can actually have it connected to
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you and maybe your spouse's smartphones
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and so then you can choose who gets to
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actually play the music that's actually
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really handy now if they say you can do
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up to 60 feet for the connection my
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experiences is once I'm about 15 20 feet
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away then it starts to break down so
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this is not the kind of device that you
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can plug into your headphones and then
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walk around in the backyard without
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having any issues unless of course you
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have your smartphone in your pocket in
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which case you're only three or four
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feet away and that's gonna work fine
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same with a car if you
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plug this into the stereo on the
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dashboard of your car your phone's
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probably going to be within 18 inches of
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it it's good work just fine now the no
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actually also features CVC noise
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cancellation which is just a chip they
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add to the circuit board and it has a
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pretty decent little battery life on it
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it's a 250 milli amp hour battery so
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they say it'll run about 13 hours on a
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charge but here's what's really cool is
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it charges off of a micro USB connection
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and you can use it while it's charging
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so if you have your typical car set up
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you could use your USB plug this thing
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in and then plug it into your car or a
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stereo for example if you have a home
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stereo and you wish you had a Bluetooth
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receiver now you got one and so you
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could never actually unplug it you can
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just leave it plugged in the whole time
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and it'll run forever and you'll never
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have to worry about your battery life
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that's really nice
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still 13 hours is pretty good that
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certainly gets you a nice long car ride
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you probably shouldn't be driving more
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than 13 hours and it'd be a heck of a
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bike ride or run cuz again if you can
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run for 13 hours you're a way better
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person than I am
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so other than that it comes with a
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couple of different aux cables and a
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micro USB charging cable but the thing I
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really like is this this is this teeny
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tiny aux adapter and so this device just
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has an aux plug on it so you plug this
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in and then you plug it into the aux
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port on whatever device you want to use
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and you're good to go super easy but
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this is self this is actually kind of
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cool as tiny little gadgets go this is a
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really nice little adapter as long as
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it'll fit now sometimes this won't be
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able to fit correctly and that's why it
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comes with like a 12-inch aux cord too
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very handy so lots of usage cases for
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this obviously for the car and for the
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car there's probably one of the few
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times where it won't actually be
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beneficial that it has a microphone you
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can take phone calls with this and
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that's really nice so particularly if
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you have like headphones or something
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and it's right here that's gonna work
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really well because the mics on board if
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you have it on here then that's probably
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not so great if you have a behind your
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stereo and your arm yeah this
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to the room clearly no one's gonna hear
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you so you know you have to look at your
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use case to decide whether having this
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be an interactive device for your phone
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is gonna actually be beneficial now let
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me give you a super quick tour because
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on the front you can see this sort of
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glowing em that's their multifunction
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button and with music it's pause play
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with phone calls it's answer call hang
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up and you can push and hold to get
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various other features if it's hooked up
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to a smart phone that would get then let
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you do something like Siri or Google now
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and then you can actually talk to this
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again with the on-board microphone so
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that's nice and then on the sides you
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have the aux plug on one side on the top
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you have an on/off slider I like on offs
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where you can see what's going on and
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then you have a volume up and down and
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on the bottom you then have that micro
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USB connection for charging so very
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simple little device it works quite well
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for what it does you can get them in
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black or white but before we get to the
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price let me ask if you can go ahead and
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click on that subscribe button and if
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you have a car that doesn't have
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bluetooth but it has aux I want to hear
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about it so in the comments tell me what
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kind of car you have and what the deal
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is and how you have been working with
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that now a lot of phones you can plug
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your headphone jack into your aux but
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now you have a tethered phone that's a
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little bit of a drag and of course with
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some phones like the iPhone 10 there is
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no audio jacks so you really don't have
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that as a solution so you know that
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makes this a really good use case so
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that's all I got this is the new lack
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CBR zero one bluetooth aux receiver
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black or white 1269 at amazon.com and
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when I looked the white one was actually
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three cents cheaper so I guess pick your
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color and then figure out what price
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it's gonna be these are exactly the kind
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of devices that I actually go and do a
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fairly you know big exploratory shopping
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trip online because you can often find
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them for much lower prices but even
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without that this is less than an you
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know a decent lunch
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so this is something that can add
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bluetooth to a wide variety of devices
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and that's a pretty cool thing so
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Steve Taylor I'm gonna plug this back in
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and get back to my music so I will catch
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you in the next video
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