I have an Allen & Heath CQ12T mixer and I use SoundCue to play my backing tracks. I stream the audio to the mixer via Bluetooth.
I noticed the CQ12T only has Bluetooth 4.1, which seems a bit outdated to me. I was wondering what the actual audio quality is when streaming this way. Is it compressed like MP3/AAC, or does it support something closer to WAV quality such as 16-bit audio?
And if Bluetooth compresses the audio, would streaming over Wi-Fi give better sound quality for live performances with backing tracks?
How would you do that? The CQ can’t stream over wi-fi.
Bluetooth version says nothing about streaming quality.
Bluetooth and WiFi both a lot more risky than connecting your device physically to the mixer. Personally I’d use stereo in to usb c or whatever is the output on your device.
Found the bt playback quite unreliable on my cq18t
1 I can solve that by buying an external WiFi streamer. 2* I understand that the Bluetooth version does not show which audio quality it streams in, but I would like to know what quality it actually delivers. Is it comparable to MP3 quality, or is it more like WAV quality?
Internet says:
Bluetooth 4.1 does not have a single fixed audio bandwidth, but typically supports streaming bitrates between 256 kbps and 576 kbps, depending on the audio codec used, such as SBC, AAC, or aptX. It operates with a maximum transmission speed of 3 Mbps (EDR), allowing high-quality compressed audio transmission. [1, 2, 3, 4]