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Good evening to all my questions is can I use a headphone Bluetooth dongle to plug into my keyboard and the use Bluetooth earphones to listen to what I play

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I was under the impression you could just plug in a Bluetooth dongle into your headphones socket on your keyboard and then pair your wireless headphones to the dongle ?
 
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I was under the impression you could just plug in a Bluetooth dongle into your headphones socket on your keyboard and then pair your wireless headphones to the dongle ?
Don't expect a cheap unit to work the way you want it. You'll notice a slight delay between pressing the keys and hearing the sound in your headphones, making it difficult to play.
 
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Don't expect a cheap unit to work the way you want it. You'll notice a slight delay between pressing the keys and hearing the sound in your headphones, making it difficult to play.

That sounds almost as bad as playing the oldest 3-manual pipe organ in New England... I got the change to play it once, and for sure, my fingers and ears were on different notes -- almost 2 beats apart!

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No digital instrument in the world is designed for bluetooth earbuds/headphones (keyboards, drums, etc) because it's not a slight delay, it's almost 1 second between you pressing a key/hitting a cymbal and actually getting a sound back. Bluetooth is slowest wireless transfer rate there is (wifi, and infrared headphones still exist; Yamaha's wireless headphone has an imperceptible 4ms latency, very similar to infrared)

The bluetooth audio on keyboards is for you to transmit from your phone/ipad *into* the instrument

I tried a latency test on the P515 receiving audio in, and it worked out to 880ms o_O


But never say never, someday there may be a highspeed bluetooth protocol. And when that happens, remember it'll take another few years for instrument makers to actually utilize.

Mark

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DX7, CLP300, PSR60, Roland E20 + MT32, CVP309, PSRS970, Fender Std Strat, Squier RB3 Midi Strat, Ibanez SA262, Yamaha CG131, Fujiyama FC390, TUC-Kitty
 
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My Yamaha CK88 has bluetooth (audio IN) for connecting an iPhone to play along with backing tracks (or Moises, Applr Music tunes, etc.). But in that situation -- despite the inherent latency/delay of bluetooth -- it's me who is following the audio track, so the delay is not an issue.

That said, Shure and other companies make wireless handheld microphone systems -- but they aren't cheap -- and while I'm sure one could be easily modified to transmit the keyboard output (in lieu of a mic's output), that would be a very spendy solution to a very minor problem.

~ Just use the wired headphones ~

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