BTR11 Bluetooth 5.3 Receiver LDAC 3.5mm Wireless Audio Headphone Amplifier Adapter (White)

I decided to switch back to wired headphones and earbuds after using my AirPods Pro for the last couple years. I got tired of having to deal with 3 separate batteries beside my phone’s. However one of my favorite uses for my AirPods Pros was their ease at connecting to Apple TV for watching content without disturbing anyone else. There’s not really any easy way to connect wired headphones to a modern HDTV or Apple TV, so I decided to look into Bluetooth receivers I could plug my wired headphones into that can then connect to the Apple TV wirelessly. This FiiO BTR11 model seemed to be the best reviewed one for the most reasonable price. It works really well! It’s really intuitive to connect to the Apple TV. I connected it once through the Bluetooth settings and now whenever I turn it on it automatically connects. That’s actually more intuitive than the AirPods because you have to press the home button on the remote to confirm you’d like to connect them. Since I really only plan to use this thing to watch my Apple TV exclusively connection should continue to be effortless. It’s got volume controls which is nice, and a multi-function button that can play, pause, turn the unit on and off, and I assume re-enter pairing mode but I haven’t tried that yet. The DAC and amp have plenty of power, they have little trouble driving my HyperX Cloud 3 gaming headset which are surprisingly high impedance hard to drive for a gaming headset. They of course drive my JBL Tone 110 earbuds effortlessly to my usual listening level at only half volume. There is also no latency on video content which is handled by the Apple TV automatically adding a few tens of milliseconds delay to compensate. There is a slight delay on the browsing sounds in the menu that I don’t think the AirPods have but that doesn’t matter. They also have much more range than the AirPods, I can move around to almost any room in the house and it doesn’t glitch or drop connection from the Apple TV. Battery life seems to be solid, and of course it’s easily rechargeable by USB C. The spring clip on the back is nice too, I can clip it to my shirt pocket and it stays out of the way while I’m watching TV. There’s also a built-in mic for phone calls but I probably won’t really use that feature. Overall very happy with it, especially for the price. I got the green “Snowsky” branded version and I like the color, it’s brighter than pictured, a sort of avacado and I like it because it’s unique among electronic devices these days.

I have a few IEMs: a Moondrop Chu2 and a Salnotes Zero. I enjoy them a lot but found that I was using them less frequently than my non-hifi Bluetooth headphones. BT is very convenient for listening while moving around. The BTR11 is a good compromise to enable BT with your existing collection of wired IEMs. It is much more compact than a mobile phone. It's nice to be able to set my phone down and carry this instead. I also connect it to other BT sources like laptops and enjoy not being tethered to them. I still prefer BT headphones for some use cases, like exercising in the gym where I don't want any cables at all to get in the way. The audio quality seems very good to me. My hearing is not very hifi, but I don't hear any obvious degradation between the BTR11 and my wired solution: an Apple USB-C to 3.5mm dongle. I also don't notice any latency when watching video with the audio synced through these. My IEMs seem to be driven well by the BTR11 and I get plenty of volume. The BTR11 is a plastic build and feels very light. It would feel more assuring if the housing were a bit heavier and and maybe made of metal. The buttons feel okay and have a nice clicky feeling. The clip is a nice addition, but I'm a little worried about relying on it after some others have mentioned it breaking. The battery lasts about 7-8 hours for me. Which is pretty good but more would be better, even if the device had to be made a little bigger and heavier. Another thing that would be nice is if it could be used as a wired DAC when the USB-C was plugged in. I hear that this is not possible because the BTR11 uses the BT chip as the DAC, but that is also part of the reason it can hit the ~$20 price point. One more nitpick is, when the battery is running low, the BTR11 lady makes an announcement and repeats it very frequently. This makes me anxious. I think the frequency should be reduced and/or the warning should be a more subtle audio cue. I saw some other options for portable BT DACs when I was shopping around, but they were a lot more expensive. This is a no-brainer for about $20 as long as reliability does not turn out to be an issue.

This little device is great! It works very well for music with my in-ear monitors. I used it with the KZ S10 Pro and the cable that came with them. Sound quality is great, good highs and lows, latency is low, so no major delay in the sound while watching videos. Buttons are responsive, if a little squishy. Battery life is also pretty good. I was able to make it through my 8-10 hour work day without having to charge the unit. There are two cons to this device, though. 1: The microphone is awful. Do not try to use this for taking calls. The person on the other end either will not be able to hear what is being said, or, if they can hear that SOMETHING is being said, they most likely will not be able to understand. The few calls that I did take using the device were not good. I was told it souded like I was shouting to them from the other end of a very long hallway, or that I had them on speakerphone and was very far away from my phone. The device was clipped to my collar directly under my mouth. I feel that there should have been no issues hearing and understanding me at that small distance. 2: The clip on the back is cheap plastic and will not hold up to even regular use for very long. I was able to take this to work with it clipped to either the collar of my shirt or clipped to my pocket for about a month before the plastic bracket snapped. This isn't an expensive device, and I understand that cheap is cheap, but I expected a bit better out of the clip. Overall, it's a good value for the price, as LDAC headphone adapters are usually expensive items, and the sound is great. Just don't expect it to be able to take any sort of abuse.

This little adapter has exceeded my expectations. I bought it so I could use my favorite wired over-ear headphones with my smartphone and smart TV, and it works exactly as I had hoped. Being able to enjoy the sound quality of good wired headphones without being tethered by a cable is incredibly convenient. The audio quality is excellent, and I haven't noticed any lag while watching TV from across the room. The Bluetooth connection has been completely stable, and the battery life has been more than enough for my listening sessions. I was also pleasantly surprised by how small it is—it ended up being about a third the size I was expecting, making it easy to clip on and forget it's even there. Overall, this is one of those products that solves a problem so well that you wonder why you didn't buy it sooner. If you have a great pair of wired headphones that you'd like to use wirelessly, I can recommend this without hesitation.

Wasn't expecting much from this, however, thoughts changed immediately. It has Really good connection, can be 30?meters away and still connected. I use this with my phone and TV. The call quality is on point as well, mic is great, easy instructions, the clip can be adjusted to bottom of the shirt, arm sleeves, neck area.

Fantastic product for wired headphones. This increases older headphones or wired audiophile headphones compatiblility. You can use them in more places. I use this with KPH30i and Koss Portapro and Bose SoundTrue II wired headphones from decade ago. This way when the battery of this device break eventually in number of years I don't have to just buy whole new set of headphones. I can just get this! The Range is impressive and mic is good. I work at a call center and use my Koss portapro wired with these on a laptop and iPhone at the same time. Dual connection works great. Optionally this FiiO product gets software updates with the iPhone or android fido app. The latest update is supposed to fix (4-2026) is supposed to fix the volume sensitivity so that the lowest volume can be lower. Definitely worth the 20 bucks and it's from an Audiophile brand you know is going to give you good quality for the price. I mean LDAC for 20 bucks! Very nice a small and easy to use controls on any wired headphones with 3.5mm jack add basically add mic to headphones without one too. Great LDAC quality sound.

UPDATE: Received a Replacement, Same Issue. Defective. At this point I'm Convinced they all do this and either people just cant hear it due to hearing loss or they subconsciously filter it out. The Pitch of the Noise and the Type of noise changes seemingly randomly. Its either a high pitch whine, a mid tone with a high pitch background or something in between. Changing the Codec doesnt seem to remove it either. The noise is distinctly different in the Headset mode however, being Mid and Low tones. Depending on which headphones I use, the Noise will either come through both channels or just 1 channel. Its not the Fault of the Cables either. Unplugging the Left Cup in any of my headsets that are able to allows the device to work perfectly without the Noise, granted Only being able to hear out of the Right Cup pretty much makes it unusable. Even when playing audio the Noise seems to come through. Updating the Device changed the Sound of the Static but did not remove it. now its between High and Mid but the Background is the lower tone with the other version being a really low grumbly tone with a midtone backing. Unplugging the Headphones also seems to 'press play' meaning if you pause music and unplug, it will just blare it out immediately. There doesnt seem to be a way to stop this from happening. Its strange because the opposite doesnt happen when you plug in headphones.

Update: Initially I gave it 4/5 but I've revised it to 2/5 because I am tired of having to reconnect it (which is a tedious process). Having owned this for a few months, I think the fatal flaw of this device is the way it is programmed: when disconnected it waits for ~1 min before it begins to look for a new device and goes into pairing mode. When this happens, thereafter it will not reconnect smoothly with my pc and I have to start over, forget device, trust, pair, run the bt-device command below... This is why I noticed in my review below, I didn't have problems so long as I turned the fiio off before turning my laptop off - but yeah, I don't always remember and I'm tired of it. As far as I know, this is not normal behavior for a bluetooth device and bad design on Fiio's part. Fiio if you're reading this, I don't think this is too hard to fix for a ver 2.0 of this product. I wouldn't mind a dedicated "connect" button for pairing too. Original review: This is a nice and inexpensive wireless receiver. Sound quality is good. Range is ok. Battery life is decent - and I like that I can plug it into charge while I am using it. I am using this with laptop with Linux Mint 22.1, realtek bluetooth 5.3. Initially it wouldn't connect to my computer, I had to do the following for it to work for me: 1) In your bluetooth manager (blueman-manager): search for it, pair with it, trust it. (maybe it works for you after this step, in which case you're done) 2) Install bluez-tools: "sudo apt-get install bluez-tools" 3) Use "bt-device -l" to find its mac address OR right click it in blueman and choose "info" to get it 4) Now type: "bt-device -c 00:00:00:00:00:00" (put your mac address instead of 00:00.....) 5) In my case, after step 4 it asked yes/no about a passkey, just type "y" (see photo) I have had to remove/forget the device a few times and repeat these steps to get it working again. Seems to me the issue is related to whether or not I shut the laptop off without turning off this receiver first. So long as I turn it off before turning the laptop off, it comes back no problem. While I know Linux's poor bluetooth handling is partly to blame, I have other bluetooth devices that never skip a beat in terms of connecting 100% of the time.

Very good bluetooth audio transmeter

Super sound, great price!

Tenía unos auriculares con cable a los que les tengo mucho aprecio y que no quería dejar de usar. El problema es que cada vez más dispositivos, especialmente móviles y algunos equipos modernos, ya no traen entrada jack de 3,5 mm. Este receptor Bluetooth me pareció una solución excelente para ese caso. Uso principal Lo compré para poder seguir utilizando mis auriculares con cable, pero con más libertad de movimiento y sin depender directamente de que el dispositivo tenga entrada de auriculares. En ese sentido, cumple perfectamente: conectás los auriculares al receptor y el audio llega por Bluetooth desde el móvil, tablet u ordenador. Lo que más me gustó Para mí, lo mejor es que convierte unos auriculares clásicos con cable en una opción mucho más actual y práctica. En mi caso no era solo una cuestión técnica, sino también de poder seguir usando unos auriculares que valoro mucho y que no quería reemplazar simplemente porque los nuevos dispositivos ya no traen jack. Calidad de sonido y comodidad La calidad de sonido me pareció muy buena para el tamaño del aparato. Es pequeño, ligero y fácil de llevar, así que no molesta en el uso diario. Me parece especialmente útil para quienes tienen buenos auriculares con cable y quieren seguir aprovechándolos sin comprar unos inalámbricos nuevos. Para quién lo recomendaría Lo recomendaría a cualquiera que tenga auriculares con cable que le gusten y quiera darles una segunda vida. También me parece una buena opción si usás móviles, tablets u ordenadores sin jack de 3,5 mm y querés mantener la calidad o comodidad de tus auriculares actuales. Conclusión Me pareció una compra muy acertada. No es un simple accesorio: en mi caso resolvió un problema concreto y me permitió seguir usando unos auriculares a los que les tengo mucho cariño. Pequeño, práctico y muy útil. Cinco estrellas.

Nice little gadget. Very useful. Sound quality also good. 4.5k price shall be reasonable. 5k and Above not justified.

Rende wireless cuffie cablate, è un ricevitore bluetooth dalle piccole dimensioni ed è dotato di una clip per agganciarlo agevolmente. E' un amplificatore per cuffie con prestazioni eccellenti, compatibile con il codec Sony LDAC per prestazioni audio superiori. Lo uso in casa con cuffie da audiofilo, ma anche in auto, per collegare un dispositivo di riproduzione portatile (tipo smartphone) allo stereo. Esiste un'app FiiO per aggiornare il firmware. FiiO è una garanzia, sono soddisfatto.