Hello All, remember in the late 90s the talking Christmas trees were all the rage? I distinctly remember my friend’s parents hooking up their boom box to the Douglas Fir Christmas tree and playing a cassette tape of The Who - See Me, Feel Me, and it was hysterical!

I wanted to see if I can recreate this jocularity, and found a brand new Douglas Fir Christmas tree on eBay from 1997! It’s my 3rd one, lol. The first one I didn’t realize they made two versions, one that doesn’t have aux in and one that does. First one bought, no aux, sigh. Second one, sensor broke and would only play once and not active after playing. 3rd one works great!

I have an Echo Dot Input device that uses the aux, 3.5mm cable to push Pandora to my old Bose Mini 2 speaker and thought that would work. I connected via Bluetooth on my iPhone to the input device and when I push music the tree isn’t responding correctly you can faintly here the canned music playing, Jingle Bells, when the aux wire is connected and no music from my phone. I then tried an Echo Dot speaker that has aux out and that did push the Pandora music to the tree speaker, but the eyes and mouth do not activate to the music.

The instructions state, “that it will only work using headphone jack, other audio jacks will not work. In this mode a portable CD player or other audio component with a headphone jack will also work.” Being that the two Echo devices aren’t considered to be headphone jacks I assume that is the reason it is not playing as expected.

So my question is there a Bluetooth device that I can sync my iPhone to and output via headphone out using aux cable and the tree will sync and work like the old boom box or is this never going to work because I using new technology vs old technology?

Schneider 6025 LS and Technics SA-DX750

Boombox made in Japan, circa 1984

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It's not flashy or high tech but I love it an it brings joy to my daughter, husband and i everday🤎

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I mostly play music from my turntable, which is new, and from a cable aux adapter or my Bluetooth adapter. I have an old pioneer receiver that u haven't used a single HDMI cord and it's overly complicated and I abhor it. I did use the iPod USB input in front of it also.

Looking for an amp that will make new Klipsch shine, having Bluetooth or USB port would be a bonus but not deal breaker same with having subwoofer input.

My room is pretty big, 15x20 feet. It's a big cozy living room with fireplace. I have had many speakers I know wiring and run it fully across the room. I just hate the receiver I have it's like rocket science trying to figure out how to get 5 speakers to play. So I'd like something simpler and good quality but budget friendly. Less than $750

I've been looking at marantz and Cambridge audio specifically.

I appreciate any help!!!!

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