Bluetooth dongle for stereo headphones?

Steve Kerry

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Aug 10, 2014
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A question from a Bluetooth newbie.

I picked up a set of Bluetooth stereo headphones this morning, after tripping over the wires on the previous pair for the umpteenth time and finally breaking them :(

I wasn't sure if my PC had Bluetooth capability, never needed to look at that before: now I know that it doesn't. I was about to get a cheap USB dongle online, but I looked a bit deeper and found review comments like "Okay for a Bluetooth mouse but not good enough to work with headphones". So now I'm not sure which dongle to get - what is suitable for use with stereo headphones, and what is not? How do I tell the difference?

The headphones: V2.1 + EDR, Class II
Bluetooth profile: Handset, Hands-free, A2DP, AVRCP

My PC: i5-4670K, Asus Z87-K, 32GB RAM, Win 7 Pro 64, GTX 760 2GB OC, 3 x Edge10 24" monitors
 
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