aptX HD dongle?

thewanted · 18 Jul 2018 at 06:58

Hey,

I'm trying to find a small USB dongle that supports aptX HD. Something like this would be perfect, but it only supports aptX and not aptX HD.

I haven't been able to find one yet. Does it exist?

thewanted · 18 Jul 2018 at 11:02

Marsman said:
Haven't seen one, just those little box/puck receiver/transmitters.

Yeah, me too

I can't find an LDAC-compatible dongle either, meh.

thewanted · 18 Jul 2018 at 11:52

IvanDobskey said:
Don't Avantree make one?

They only make a "puck" that supports aptx HD - link

I've been listening to my new Sony WH-1000XM2 headphones through my Dell Latitude 7480 laptop and it sounds pretty good so perhaps a dongle isn't required. I wish I could tell which Bluetooth codec the laptop is using though.

thewanted · 19 Jul 2018 at 07:30

jpaul said:
Have you considered aac codec rather than apt-x

I hadn't, thanks! My headphones do support AAC and it looks like it's a lot easier to find an AAC Bluetooth dongle than an aptX HD one!

It's very annoying that Windows 10 doesn't tell you which Bluetooth codec it's using because it may well be using AAC, but I suspect that it's probably using SBC.