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Originally Posted by Josieb1
It's the which end goes where bit. Audio leads (just like TV leads) baffle me. Last year we got hubby a Bluetooth receiver which he plugs into the 3.5 jack on his iPod, that enables him to connect it to a Bluetooth speaker, but what we need to do know is apparently the other way around  . |
Ignoring for the moment that all BT devices are TECHNICALLY transceivers (both transmitters and receivers) the device your husband plugs in to his iPod is marketed as a Bluetooth TRANSMITTER, because it SENDS the sound from the ipod's headphone jack over Bluetooth to an amplified speaker somewhere which can RECEIVE the sound being sent.
You want (and you got) a Bluetooth RECEIVER, which you plug in to an amplifier or speaker (just like you'd plug in a tape deck or a CD player or an iPod...) and it RECEIVES the Bluetooth sound that some Bluetooth TRANSMITTER is sending out.
Some devices, like my smartphone, and an Echo or Dot, can do both functions, either acting as speaker, or sending sound to another speaker.
But often, as Yolina said at the top of this page, they can't do both at the same time.