Such thing as more powerful bluetooth controller?

PixelGeek · January 2, 2023

TL;DR: Is there a such thing as a more powerful Bluetooth controller? I believe that my MOBO's onboard Bluetooth is being saturated by multiple audio streams. Can I have multiple Bluetooth cards in one system?

I've been experimenting with connecting multiple Bluetooth speakers (Google Nest Audio to be precise) to my PC instead of using speaker groups in the Google home app because the latency is shockingly terrible. I'm using VoiceMeeter to play from two speakers at once and they sound mostly good, but if I connect a third speaker all three stutter and crackle. At first I figured it was VoiceMeeter or something to do with the speakers. But then I noticed that when I balance out one channel from all speakers, I can get them all to work properly. I send them less information, the stuttering goes away, that, to me, sounds like a bandwidth problem. Do you guys agree? I also just noticed that my Bluetooth mouse stutters slightly when I play music through all three speakers. Overclocked Bluetooth module mayhapse???

I really need to just buy some Sonos speakers or literally any speaker from any manufacturer that allows mesh connectivity, these Google speakers were just on sale for a killer price given their sound quality.

The Flying Sloth · January 2, 2023

58 minutes ago, PixelGeek said:

I really need to just buy some Sonos speakers or literally any speaker from any manufacturer that allows mesh connectivity, these Google speakers were just on sale for a killer price given their sound quality.

Yep, you're right there,

TLDR is this, Bluetooth has massive latency for most audio codecs, while it's not often noticeable on its own, once you start mixing and matching speakers and controllers you're likely to end up with speakers slightly out of sync with one another which will really annoy you. Now, I suppose you could go down the route of trying to do lag compensation but that's a completely different rabbit hole to go down.