I’ve only been an HA wearer and a Phone Clip+ user about a month but in my limited experience, the PC+ is only one part of the whole streaming equation and not the weakest link in the chain, at least for me. (The OP’s original question, too, was what BT dongle/USB adapter to get for his/her computer since it doesn’t have built in BT). I find environmental NOISE is the biggest factor in limiting my audio appreciation of anything, whether I am streaming with the PC+ or my ReSound Multi-Mic (another line input solution). I have ReSound Quattro 9 61’s and open domes. The places that I like to stream are pretty noisy: Gold’s gym with people punching/kicking bags, clanking weights, or people running on noisy treadmills, stair-steppers, etc. Outdoors with cars, dogs barking, medical helicopters, commercial and military planes in the sky, etc. Without destroying my hearing from turning up the volume too much, to have decent audio quality, I find the best result by wearing a set of gun muffs, probably in the range of 20 to 30 dB reduction, but unfortunately, I didn’t keep a record and kinda criminal that the degree of noise reduction is not on the product itself.
Not sure what you mean about “overcompressed” - there is high-quality BT audio that’s extremely compressed. Also, BT devices can stream in more than one format. How do you know that the ReSound accessories stream according to the same audio codec used for the iPhone? Knowing Apple, I would think that Apple would not let a protocol it developed for itself be reused for Android (the “walled garden” phenomenon). I also do not have any trouble adjusting the media streaming volume with PC+ streaming from too soft to hear to too loud to bear, so I’m not sure what you mean by “constant volume”). I’m a bit tone deaf, I think, so I have not noticed a terrible difference in audio talk show podcast including music with the PC+ but phone calls using the PC+ (a different BT protocol? - since phone audio is listed separately from media streaming for the PC+ in the BT settings on my Samsung Oreo 8.0 phone) do not sound as good as my remembrance of using a Plantronics Calisto Pro headset. But I think from what I’ve read on this forum that if one wants the best audio quality for music, one might want to stream to a set of BT headphones where you wouldn’t have as much problem with the lack of bass that other people on this forum has remarked is also characteristic of HA’s themselves, especially if you have RITE(RIC) with open domes. I’ve ordered a set of high quality BT headphones and I’ll have to see if it gives me a better music experience than direct to Quattro streaming. Thanks for any links to ReSound info or previous posts that actually document the protocols and sound characteristics for the various ReSound accessories. I’d love to have hard info on that. From my newbie perspective, the problem with the HA manufacturers is that they make claims about the quality of their sound but don’t give you any hard info on protocols, sound characteristics, etc., to actually back it up. Instead, you’ll see a poll in a white paper that 70% of users polled preferred the ReSound sound to something else, etc., labeled A, B, C. Hocus-pocus.