The Chord's Chordette Gem is designed to integrate within an existing HiFi system and allow the transfer of music from a Bluetooth enabled phone, PDA or personal computer. The addition of a USB port also allows direct streaming of audio from a PC.

The Chordette Gen supports any A2DP (Advanced Audio Profile) Bluetooth compatible devices. Using a custom designed Bluetooth receiver Chord has been able to extract and decrypt the normally unused digital audio information and input this directly into a high quality digital to analogue converter. Unlike the analog audio outputs seen from other Bluetooth devices this gives us much better performance and enables CD like transfer of music from the Bluetooth device. The unit has a range of up to 30 meters and the USB port can be connected to a personal computer and will seamlessly appear as an audio device by the operating system.

The compact receiver measures 160x 70x 40mm and is available in several finishes for a retail price of £399.