BCD436HP/BCD536HP: I hated my BCD436 UNTILL.....

MAguln8839 · Jan 29, 2016

I bought a BCD436 and my initial impression of it was not good. The audio was very hissy. it was hard to understand and the sound was pretty poor. Then I decided to add an external Bluetooth speaker. The audio improved greatly. The audio was now more bassy, much less hissy, and much louder. Now I am very happy with it. I don't know why they concentrate more on audio output when they design these scanners. To me it makes a night and day difference.

cpetraglia · Jan 29, 2016

MAguln8839 said:
I bought a BCD436 and my initial impression of it was not good. The audio was very hissy. it was hard to understand and the sound was pretty poor. Then I decided to add an external Bluetooth speaker. The audio improved greatly. The audio was now more bassy, much less hissy, and much louder. Now I am very happy with it. I don't know why they concentrate more on audio output when they design these scanners. To me it makes a night and day difference.

I run all my scanners through a 6 channel mixer to an amp with a nice set of bookshelf speakers. It is night and day. Crystal clear. For whatever reason, size keeps going down along with audio quality. I would love to have a big scanner with a 4 inch speaker. They could take out all the bells and whistles as well
Dream on.

Chuck

KK4JUG · Jan 29, 2016

I frequently hook one of mine thru auxiliary input on the radio in the car. The quality is about as good as any of the commercial broadcast stations.

AA6IO · Jan 29, 2016

cpetraglia said:
I run all my scanners through a 6 channel mixer to an amp with a nice set of bookshelf speakers. It is night and day. Crystal clear. For whatever reason, size keeps going down along with audio quality. I would love to have a big scanner with a 4 inch speaker. They could take out all the bells and whistles as well
Dream on.

Chuck
When you hook up your base station scanners to mixer. Do you use the headphone output or external speaker output? Thank you.

Voyager · Jan 29, 2016

It's hard to get good bass quality out of a 2" (or less) speaker. On the other hand, tinny audio is much easier to understand than bassy audio which often sounds "muddy".

MAguln8839 · Jan 29, 2016

Its a lot of personal preference, I like punchy loud audio, with both bass and treble up high, but not to tinny, you think they could add a bigger speaker an amplifier and some tone controls so everyone could tailor it for themselves.

MStep · Jan 30, 2016

I'll add my 2 cents--- I have both the 436 and the 536--- both receive very well, but there are times that the 536 audio does sound a little too bassy, and while the 436 may sound a little tinny or high-pitched, the audio is sometimes more discernible than the 536.

cpetraglia · Jan 30, 2016

sshermanmd said:
cpetraglia said:

I run all my scanners through a 6 channel mixer to an amp with a nice set of bookshelf speakers. It is night and day. Crystal clear. For whatever reason, size keeps going down along with audio quality. I would love to have a big scanner with a 4 inch speaker. They could take out all the bells and whistles as well
Dream on.

Chuck
When you hook up your base station scanners to mixer. Do you use the headphone output or external speaker output? Thank you.

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I use headphone jacks on all of them. Much closer impedance match to the mixer inputs than a speaker output.

Chuck

bee · Jan 30, 2016

Where can I purchase, the External Bluetooth Speaker?

Thanks

radiomanNJ1 · Jan 30, 2016

bee said:
Where can I purchase, the External Bluetooth Speaker?

Thanks

There are a great number of manufacturers of external bluetooth speakers. Not that expensive and very handy.

Skip_Wilson · Feb 2, 2016

Audio out method? Thanks

Voyager · Feb 2, 2016

I use the earphone connector on my 436. I plug the BT TX into that.

N7JGN · Feb 3, 2016

cpetraglia said:
I run all my scanners through a 6 channel mixer to an amp with a nice set of bookshelf speakers. It is night and day. Crystal clear. For whatever reason, size keeps going down along with audio quality. I would love to have a big scanner with a 4 inch speaker. They could take out all the bells and whistles as well
Dream on.

Chuck

Hi Chuck.. I have a BCD536 with Wi-Fi capabilities.. how do I use it with my Bluetooth speaker? You help is needed.. LOL.. Thanks is Advance...
Doug

rcool101 · Feb 3, 2016

WiFi and Bluetooth have nothing to do with each other. You need a Bluetooth transmitter. Your Bluetooth speaker is the receiver. Check E-Pay. There's thousands of them. They're small and plug into your earphone jack or audio out

rcool101 · Feb 3, 2016

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MrDoug said:
Hi Chuck.. I have a BCD536 with Wi-Fi capabilities.. how do I use it with my Bluetooth speaker? You help is needed.. LOL.. Thanks is Advance...
Doug

I do too. I also use the ProScan program. You can use the wifi dongle to connect to ProScan. You can also control the audio on your PC speakers. So I guess if your PC is Bluetooth you could send the audio to a Bluetooth speaker. Mine isn't but I have a Bluetooth dongle. I'll try it someday

N7JGN · Feb 3, 2016

rcool101 said:
WiFi and Bluetooth have nothing to do with each other. You need a Bluetooth transmitter. Your Bluetooth speaker is the receiver. Check E-Pay. There's thousands of them. They're small and plug into your earphone jack or audio out

Thanks much.. That's what I kinda was thinking.. I'll give it a try..
Doug

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