Why Is Bluetooth Sound Quality Bad on My Mac

Re:Why Is Bluetooth Sound Quality Bad on My Mac by pashky on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:24AM (#38614299)

I was always curious if Airpods are any better in this regard. Have they implemented some better bi-directional profile there?

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Re:Why Is Bluetooth Sound Quality Bad on My Mac by lxgr on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:28AM (#38614352)

Unfortunately not, as far as I can tell (Apple took away the debugging option from the Bluetooth menu a while ago, but at least the first AirPods still used mSBC for HFP).

This is really surprising to me: They clearly don't mind licensing AAC for A2DP/music mode even though SBC is free and the only required codec, so I don't understand why they don't include at least something proprietary for AirPods to Apple device use, or now LC3.

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Re:Why Is Bluetooth Sound Quality Bad on My Mac by ivanjermakov on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:46AM (#38628076)

AirPods to macOS bi-directional profile is a lot better than AirPods to non-Apple host, so it has to be.

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