Review – August MR230B Bluetooth Audio Receiver for Sound Systems

August MR230 is a bluetooth receiver powered through a built-in battery that can transform any stereo speaker to enjoy music from iPhone, iPad, but also from any other smartphone or tablet.

August MR230 is the bluetooth receiver that lets you turn any stereo into a receiver to play music from the iPhone, iPad or smartphone, without wires and without any additional application. It just that the stereo has a common input 3.5 mm jack and your smartphone or tablet has a chance to activate a bluetooth connection. Of course, it is not required jailbreak, root or other modification to your device.

August MR230 is shipped in a pack from the diminutive size, containing the bluetooth receiver from the scales really ridiculous, a traditional 3.5mm audio cable and an audio cable with a 3.5mm end with the red and white RCA jacks. Also, included in the sales package also a USB power adapter to charge the bluetooth receiver. Sadly, there is the wall adapter for USB, so that the allocation of departure is only possible to charge the handset via USB.

Operation of August MR230 is really simple and straightforward. After turning on the receiver will need to pair with your smartphone or tablet via bluetooth connection. Maintaining the pressure for a few seconds, the only button on the face of the receiver will activate the pairing mode, highlighted by blue and red lights intermittently.

For the first time, the pair asked to enter your password on your device 0000, and for subsequent times the connection will be done in an automatic way. After completing these simple preliminary steps will be sufficient to connect via a cable jack on the receiver to your home stereo system; from this moment on, the music playing on the terminal can be heard from the speaker’s own stereo system.

The sound quality is average and reflects what the standard of all the bluetooth receivers of the same kind. The frequency response of 2.402 to 2.480 GHz transmits sound with a excellent quality, acceptable to those who have no pretensions to the recording studio. In particular, the August MR230 allows you to listen to good bass.

Like all receivers of the genre, August MR230 is suitable only for listening to music and not to play the audio of a movie, for example. Due to an imperceptible latency, there is a risk of having an audio out of sync with respect to the video. In other words, there is a slight delay between the time at which the audio is played from a portable device when actually, the sound comes out of the speaker case. Obviously, this problem, even if present, tends to be totally ignorable during a normal music reproduction.

August MR230 has a particularity of its much sought after by most users: it is self-powered. This means that the bluetooth receiver must not be connected to a power source during music playback. The integrated battery is not removable unable to safely secure almost 4 hours of continuous playback before needing to be recharged. It is a very valuable feature, because it broadens the scope of application of this device. For example, it can be connected to the car of a car, without having to worry about power cords to connect to the ashtray.

In the event that you decide to use it in the car. It must be stressed that the speakers of your car player will play music from the device and not the audio call. In short, the internal battery is an element to the benefit of the product, which is not present in many other receivers of the same kind and in the same price range.