02-19-2023, 05:35 PM
Currently, my most used Mac is a 2012 mini, and it's my opinion the 2012 mini's BT sucks, one reason possibly being it's 4.0.
Any latency in audio of a video is a problem for me.
A delay of .25-.5s is horrific.
The 2012 mini's BT version is 4.0, so I think using a higher version in headphones may help reduce the latency, but that's a guess.
At this point, any BT device I buy has to be BT 5.0 or higher.
The 2018 and 2020 minis have BT 5.0.
I don't know what version of BT is used in the Dot's, Gen 2 and 3.
If one is 5.0, I'd go with that, because I think that 5.x > 5.x would be better than 4.0 > anything else.
One site says the Gen 3 dot sounds much better than the 2nd, so you might compare the two and see if you perhaps don't need to BT a speaker to the Dot.
I did grab one that I had, Echo Dot (2nd Generation), turned on the BlueTooth and connected to my mac Mini (2012). I noticed the sound is better than from the internal speaker
If you're referring to the mini's internal speaker, it was not meant to be used to listen to audio.
It's just for alert sounds, such as the startup chime, and just about any speaker would be an improvement.
Any latency in audio of a video is a problem for me.
A delay of .25-.5s is horrific.
The 2012 mini's BT version is 4.0, so I think using a higher version in headphones may help reduce the latency, but that's a guess.
At this point, any BT device I buy has to be BT 5.0 or higher.
The 2018 and 2020 minis have BT 5.0.
I don't know what version of BT is used in the Dot's, Gen 2 and 3.
If one is 5.0, I'd go with that, because I think that 5.x > 5.x would be better than 4.0 > anything else.
One site says the Gen 3 dot sounds much better than the 2nd, so you might compare the two and see if you perhaps don't need to BT a speaker to the Dot.
I did grab one that I had, Echo Dot (2nd Generation), turned on the BlueTooth and connected to my mac Mini (2012). I noticed the sound is better than from the internal speaker
If you're referring to the mini's internal speaker, it was not meant to be used to listen to audio.
It's just for alert sounds, such as the startup chime, and just about any speaker would be an improvement.