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What's the range of Auracast broadcast audio?

From https://assistivelisteningknowledgebase.org/evidence/bluetooth-sig-2025-range-handout/ · record checked 9 October 2026

  • Bluetooth SIG

Trade body (Bluetooth SIG marketing material; the SIG is an industry association funded by its member companies and owns the Auracast trademark)

Summary

A one-page SIG handout comparing the range of paired Bluetooth audio with Auracast broadcasts; the SIG links it as its answer on transmitter coverage.

Key findings

  • Gives about 10 m for a paired Bluetooth Classic audio connection and about 100 m for an Auracast broadcast.
  • Attributes the longer reach to mains-powered public transmitters that can raise their transmit power and use a more sophisticated antenna.

Limits

No test conditions, receiver, power level or room are given. The handout is undated; the date shown is the PDF file's creation date, and the file name refers to a CES handout.

Read the original

www.bluetooth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2312_CES_Handout-Images_FINAL-range.pdf

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Bluetooth SIG. What's the range of Auracast broadcast audio? 28 July 2025. https://www.bluetooth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2312_CES_Handout-Images_FINAL-range.pdf (accessed 9 October 2026).

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