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That certainly helps! This would be for work (I leave my headroom micro stack here so I really just need a source to carry back and forth) so 16/44 would be plenty for me. Does the NFC app work with any music player?
Yeah, I didn't really understand the whole NFC thing until I had this. NFC actually only does one thing in this instance: it pairs the Belkin with your phone via Bluetooth. That's it. So in my case, for example, I have a little portable Bluetooth speaker I use to listen to the news while I'm getting ready in the morning and then the Belkin into my bedroom system at night. Because I have an NFC compatible device and the BT Belkin app, all I have to do is put the back of my phone up to the Belkin itself and it automatically pairs (no entering pairing codes or anything).
Even if you don't have an NFC phone, the Belkin works just fine, you just pair it normally like any other Bluetooth peripheral. At that point, any music player you want will be able to stream over the Bluetooth connection. I've personally used Neutron, MOG, and Pandora, but pretty much anything should work.
Hope this helps! It's a great little toy, but it seems like Bluetooth really isn't ready for audiophile primetime just yet (the aforementioned Chord may be an exception, I'm not certain). It's been great for my little second setup though. And as an added bonus, I set an alarm on my phone every night, and the alarm tone plays across the stereo as well as the phone, which is pretty useful considering I sleep deeply enough to be legally dead in most countries.
If you have any other questions, I'll be happy to answer whatever I can. PM me (so we don't take this too far OT) if you think of anything else. (I was about the recommend checking out the Logitech Bluetooth adapter too considering they have considerably better audio quality credentials than Belkin, but it looks like its $80-90 on Amazon, and I thought I recalled it being around $40, so scratch that).