airpods

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Has anybody tried using AirPods with a Genos 1 or 2?
I have used headphone out to a monitor speaker before but don't know what accessories would work using AirPods from the same output.
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[Amwilburn]

Unless something has fundamentally changed recently, bluetooth is only useful to musicians as audio streaming *in* (you won't care if prerecorded audio takes an extra second to arrive after you press play) or midi out (as midi uses up very little bandwidth). Bluetooth has a bandwidth of up to 2.4Mbps (megabits, not megabytes) which is 300 kBps (kilobytes). Wifi 5Ghz has a bandwidth of 1300Mbps.

Long story short, there are no instruments that support bluetooth headphones because you'd hear a note roughly 1 second after you pressed a key. There *are* wireless options (infrared, wifi) with really low latency (4ms even at 2.4Ghz); Yamaha sells a YHWL500 2.4Ghz wifi headphone, which can be used for bluetooth on your phone, but not for an instrument.

Yes, the transfer protocol plays a huge part as well, but if you're looking for at least CD quality sound, then there will be a delay with such a small bandwidth like bluetooth (there *is* a new bluetooth protocol that sacrifices clarity for less latency, but I'd think musicians want the best sound quality), and it's stil 10x the latency of wifi.

Mark

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Thanks Mark
I guess I hoped things might have changed since I don't keep up with technology as well as I should.