Everything you need to know about Auracast
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India|May 2024
The revolutionary Bluetooth audio-sharing tech that promotes personal audio experiences in public spaces
Everything you need to know about Auracast

“Welcome to the year of the whores” has to be up there as one of the best real-time TV subtitle whoopsies of them all, as the BBC’s Tina Daheley ushered in the Chinese Year of the Horse in 2014. Close behind it is surely presenter Dan Walker referring to the English seaside town Cromer as famous for its “crap” (instead of crabs), and Manchester United midfielder Adnan Januzaj once being subtitled as “Janet Jazz Jazz Jam”.

Last year, the What Hi-Fi? team was watching Formula 1 on a pub TV and noticed how many words the subtitles got wrong (though none to the same bemusement as those notorious blunder examples), or just plainly missed. Live subtitles provide an indispensable service for the deaf and hard of hearing, of course, and we’re not at all here to bash the efforts of hard-working captioners. But that shoddy motor race-watching pub experience could be a thing of the past with the arrival of a new broadcast audio technology that promises to make experiencing audio content in public spaces much better. Say hello to Auracast.

Auracast is one of the features that the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) – a global community of 36,000 companies responsible for setting Bluetooth technology standards – has included in its latest specifications for the Bluetooth LE (Low Energy) Audio standard – which also, by the way, introduced the LC3 codec for supposedly better-quality audio at lower data rates and increased power efficiency compared with the ‘standard’ SBC Bluetooth.

Denne historien er fra May 2024-utgaven av What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India.

Start din 7-dagers gratis prøveperiode på Magzter GOLD for å få tilgang til tusenvis av utvalgte premiumhistorier og 9000+ magasiner og aviser.

Denne historien er fra May 2024-utgaven av What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India.

Start din 7-dagers gratis prøveperiode på Magzter GOLD for å få tilgang til tusenvis av utvalgte premiumhistorier og 9000+ magasiner og aviser.

FLERE HISTORIER FRA WHAT HI-FI SOUND AND VISION INDIASe alt
The missing Link
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

The missing Link

\"Battery life on the Sony LinkBuds Open is excellent\"

time-read
1 min  |
December 2024
Old school charmer...
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

Old school charmer...

\"It is sonically regimented, particularly through the low end where we expected issues\"

time-read
1 min  |
December 2024
Home-theatre hero
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

Home-theatre hero

\"Impressive is the way in which it manages to sound clean and o decongested, even during the most complex of passages.\"

time-read
4 mins  |
December 2024
Audiovector Trapeze Reimagined
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

Audiovector Trapeze Reimagined

\"The Trapeze Ri may resemble their famed ancestors, but in every other respect they are thoroughly modem\"

time-read
4 mins  |
December 2024
Linn Majik LP12 MC
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

Linn Majik LP12 MC

\"We are having fun and encouraged to take a holistic view of the music rather than focus on the details\"

time-read
5 mins  |
December 2024
The playlist
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

The playlist

Here are our carefully curated recommendations of the best music streaming service for those who value sound quality above all. Form an orderly queue...

time-read
8 mins  |
December 2024
MATCH FIT
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

MATCH FIT

Our ten recommended hi-fi systems are guaranteed to play together beautifully

time-read
5 mins  |
December 2024
THE TRUE PRO
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

THE TRUE PRO

Audio Pro's Director of EMEA Sales talks sustainability, Indian markets and the future of Audio Pro in India

time-read
5 mins  |
December 2024
Q Acoustics M40
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

Q Acoustics M40

A pair of powered baby floorstanders that have big shoes to fill

time-read
5 mins  |
December 2024
YG Acoustics Carmel 3
What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision India

YG Acoustics Carmel 3

On paper, the Carmel 3 from Colorado-based speaker specialist YG Acoustics has a credibility problem. They cost a huge amount of money but are small, rather plain-looking two-way floorstanders.

time-read
4 mins  |
November 2024