I've been wanting to ban my phone from the bedroom for some time, for obvious reasons. Issues: I use it as an alarm clock like everyone else and I listen to audio books to help me fall asleep. The first issue was solved when my radio alarm clock arrived in one of the moving boxes, but the second seemed a bit trickier. I listen to the audio books with a tiny bluetooth earpiece that's small enough not to annoy me, which would keep me awake. So I needed a way to get BT audio at my bedside. Conveniently, I've got an old iPod with docking station lying around and so I thought I'd add a BT transmitter and be done with it. This does technically work, but at the low volume settings that I use, there's a lot of background noise; enough to keep me awake.
So I've been thinking and pondering and wondering what to do for a few weeks... until I noticed something last Sunday. The wife and I watch a random episode of a certain TV show every evening which helps her fall asleep. For this, we use an iPad suspended above the bed with a gooseneck holder. We don't really use the iPad for much else. So there's been an iPad with plenty of available storage space right in front of (well, above) me all the time that I've been wondering how to get decent BT audio quality from anything but my phone.
So I've been thinking and pondering and wondering what to do for a few weeks... until I noticed something last Sunday. The wife and I watch a random episode of a certain TV show every evening which helps her fall asleep. For this, we use an iPad suspended above the bed with a gooseneck holder. We don't really use the iPad for much else. So there's been an iPad with plenty of available storage space right in front of (well, above) me all the time that I've been wondering how to get decent BT audio quality from anything but my phone.