Very weak bluetooth connection

Hi guys
i have an issue with the quality of my iPad's bluetooth connection. I have an iPad mini that I bought in feb 2013. I use it to stream music to my bluetooth speakers, but I've recently had a problem with the quality of the connection. It keeps cutting in and out at a distance of a little over two meters. Meanwhile, I can use my iphone 4s or iPhone 6 from the same range with absolutely no issues. This leads me to beleive there is a problem with the ipad. I've done everything (unpaired and re paired, restarted the Bluetooth receiver, rebooted iPad) and nothing works. Is the connectivity just generally weaker on the iPad mini than on phones? Is there any way I could fix this?

@kkzk123
Presumably you have tried to mitigate effect of your body shielding wireless transmission as much as possible with phone kept on same side as headset?
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