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Helmsley

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Does using a couple of Bluetooth connections at the same time affect audio quality?

I have my iPhone 11 connected to my car stereo for Spotify, and to a diagnostics dongle at the same time.

Does this reduce the bandwidth available and therefore sound quality?
 

Cayden

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No, having multiple connections will not reduce the available bandwidth for audio. Bluetooth works by having a fixed overall bandwidth with a fixed number of channels. As such, each channel has a fixed bandwidth, so having multiple Bluetooth connections at once won’t decrease the bandwidth of any other connection, even if they’re sending unique information to the different connections
 
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Helmsley

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No, having multiple connections will not reduce the available bandwidth for audio. Bluetooth works by having a fixed overall bandwidth with a fixed number of channels. As such, each channel has a fixed bandwidth, so having multiple Bluetooth connections at once won’t decrease the bandwidth of any other connection, even if they’re sending unique information to the different connections

Cheers man.
 
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