On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:26:35 +1200,
Rick Christian , in
 wrote:

> Is there no way to use the BT to output audio from the Pi3 WITHOUT
> pulseaudio.


Read, weep:
http://youness.net/raspberry-pi/bluetooth-headset-raspberry-pi

 Raspbian uses BlueZ as Bluetooth stack.
 BlueZ deals with pure Bluetooth tasks (pairing/connection/...)
 So, BlueZ needs additional SW components for audio management
 First Linux audio manager that comes to mind is ALSA
 But, BlueZ (>= v5.0) doesn't support ALSA anymore
 Instead, BlueZ is now using PulseAudio (>= 5.0)
 And, PulseAudio still uses ALSA

Unless you can find an older BlueZ that uses ALSA directly, you're
kind of stuck. And that may (or not) break other things. BlueZ is the
only Linux bluetooth stack available.

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