cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
That’s a limitation of Bluetooth itself afaik, when bidirectional audio is active and the headset goes into “hands-free mode” you get a shit bitrate. Windows behaves the same, not sure about AirPods on Mac
That is true, but I think there are some newer protocols that support higher fidelity.
Also Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (for example) was shipped with pipewire instead of pulse audio which just made the handsfree profile (aka low fidelity bidirectional audio) work out of the box. Have been using it without significant problems since that release.
Yeah, a TRRS jack :D
I’m not aware of any big improvements, even BT6.0 is the same afaik. All the fancy audio codecs don’t matter in the handsfree mode