Really weird. I’ve had the btr1 for months and use it several hours a day often. I can’t recall it cutting out a single time. And other than the (almost too quiet to notice) beep when pressing the volume button, I hear no other beeps or buzzing at all.
So I've heard. Reading posts and customer reviews, it seems like a good percentage of the users never have any cut-off, while another good percentage of users do.
I was kinda hoping to be in the "no cutoff" percentage, but that is not the case.
Lucky for you though.
The behavior on every device was odd.
- On the Galaxy S7 Edge, it would just cutoff like a bluetooth device does when you're out of range. However, the device was right next to me. I checked to make sure no other devices were around that could possibly be interfering. Nothing was around. No metal around (I was on my bed). I even wiped my whole Android, installed from scratch. Once installation was complete, I installed my music player, sync the BTR1, tried it again. Same thing. At any given moment it would cutout.
- On the Galaxy S4, the phone is very bare minimal. I don't use it for anything other than to play a game and to play music. There's barely any unnecessary apps (even the Google apps). The behavior is the same as the Galaxy S7 Edge.
- On the laptop, that one is the weirdest one. In mid song/video, the audio would silence and I would get a light buzz (like a radio). - On the Sony smarttv, it would just cut off, but in shorter bursts.
The thing is, I have tested (and tested it again yesterday) all these sources using other bluetooth adapters (Sony, Samsung, and Belden) and none of them gave me these kind of problems. The Sony tv isn't even in the same household. So that rules out if being my environment.
All signs points to the Fiio being the common factor.
The extra beeps are probably because he originally had 2 devices connected and is out of range of one of them.
No. I already wrote that I had any other bluetooth device turned off. I am the same way as Sgt. Ear Ache when it comes to that.
Also, if I turn off all my sources while still wearing my headphones and having the BTR1, the BTR1 does not keep beeping trying to connect. It seems to know that there is no source available.
I could understand that being a behavior if it was connected to something and it lost range.. but that is not what's happening here.
The volume beep is really annoying though. If may not bother some, but to me it's like watching a movie, turning the volume up/down, and see a volume bar or something pop up on the display. It just complete kills my concentration/enjoyment of whatever I was watching.
It's the same thing with the volume beep. If I'm listening to something and want to turn it up/down in mid song, I don't want a beep to interrupt my enjoyment.
Well, I will be testing it again this weekend at a different location using a lot more headphones. I want to see how well it handles hard to drive headphones.