I have been using old phones that do not have service for various uses. My Echo Show has great speakers in my small kitchen that have worked great with both of the old phones. For Scribd Audiobooks I use the bluetooth from a small phone.
One of the phones I mainly use for my Spotify library, it has a bad tendency to abruptly stop media, which can get irritating, but again these were phones I "replaced" because they were older and buggier. For audio, I've been using a small, old phone to bluetooth to the Echo Show sometimes for speakers and it's worked out very well --- until the small phone finally kicked the bucket. It has a weird message when I turn it on saying not to unplug from USB while firmware updates and that it's unrooted. No matter what I've tried, this same message has stayed on for a week. This phone was incredibly old so it's not a big surprise it may have finally died.
So, to replace this for the meantime today, I used my Kindle Fire with bluetooth headphones for a bit, which worked like normal.
When I came home and hooked the Fire for the first time to the Echo Show - the sound quality is horrible. Absolutely awful. Of course Fires don't have good speakers, and neither do any of my phones, but that shouldn't matter at all when bluetooth broadcasting to external speakers.
I cannot improve the quality by messing with audio. I know it is not the Scribd app on the Fire because they sound the same as using anything else with my bluetooth headphones from the device -- it's only with the echo that it's a problem. There isn't pausing, stuttering, or anything like that --- the sound keeps coming across tinny and just awful, kind of like it's coming out half a speaker instead of a full one.
Anyone know why this is? It's only like this with the Fire, but only when the Fire is hooked up to an external speaker and not headphones.
