[swores]

Even bluetooth now days is often fine if not buying bargain basement products.

I use pretty much exclusively bluetooth for audio between PCs/phone/TV and both earphones and speakers, and my car's stereo is the only bluetooth connection I have that ever has connection/lag issues at all (and even then it's infrequent enough that I still choose it over plugging a USB cable in between phone and car).

[dylan604]

Yeah, but bluetooth is different in how it can stutter and cause interrupts than just signal strength. I have seen multiple common "speaker" devices where multiple devices have paired to it so that while it is streaming from one device, gets confused when another paired device is rediscovered and it tries to connect. The confusion of trying to decide if the current stream should continue or allow new device to take over is irritating.

I had one device that would suddenly connect at random times and music would suddenly start playing from an app that was previously not playing until the bluetooth device "woke up" or whatever happened.

I hate bluetooth for all of the little paper cut issues it has. Not one of them are killer, but together just ruins its likeability.

[warrenm]

My solution to this is only allowing a couple pairings per Bluetooth end device

My wife's van, for example, can store a few connections - but only "likes" to keep its most recent (so ... in her vehicle, while my phone is 'paired', it never connects)

The only thing I have with more than 1 or 2 pairings are my [nice] Bose headphones ... and those are only paired to 'my' devices (two laptops (home & work), my cell, and my wife's cell (because she likes to steal them to use when mowing))

Bluetooth soundbar? Only connects to my laptop

Bluetooth earbuds? Only connects to my phone

Bluetooth wall speaker? One connects to my wife's phone, the other to mine