[CoolGuySteve]

Will I finally be able to use a bluetooth headset's high quality audio output and its mic at the same time without significant changes in the terminal?

It's getting embarrassing that every other mobile and desktop OS has no problem doing this but not Ubuntu.

[greenavocado]

The "solution" other vendors take is to maintain the high quality bluetooth audio output to your headphones while using your laptop's microphone as input. They basically don't use your headset's mic in order to keep your headset in A2DP mode for high quality audio. You can also easily configure this in PulseAudio Volume Control.

You can't work around the fundamental limitations of Bluetooth protocols like A2DP without cheating and using another microphone somewhere else. You can't use the headset mic when receiving high quality A2DP audio, ever, no matter how hard you try. It is a limitation of the Bluetooth standard.

When you switch the device into headset mode the quality turns to potato because it uses bidirectional audio codecs from the stone age in HFP/HSP mode with mSBC or (god help us all) CVSD.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Or the headset can include two separate Bluetooth endpoints and an internal mixer. AFAIK this is what SteelSeries does in their headsets.

[digiou]

I think this is the result of how bluetooth itself works for bi-directional voice headsets, no? I do get bad quality on every OS when I have to do this, unless it has to do with the audio codec.

[briffle]

My windows 11 computer does the same thing. It’s because of the limited bandwidth in Bluetooth that it has to lower the audio quality

[bradley13]

I don't need it often, but I've used bluetooth earbuds (with mic) and Xubuntu LTS 22.04. No problems at all.

[a1o]

What desktop os? MacOS doesn't work well with Samsung stuff regarding quality, Windows 11 + Microsoft Teams = quality is somehow worse.

[linsomniac]

Not just Ubuntu and Bluetooth; my Mac using USB to my conference speaker+mic shifts to much lower output quality when the mic turns on.

[utensil4778]

No, this isn't an operating system problem, this is just how Bluetooth is.

[dventimi]

I'd be happy if Bluetooth audio worked out of the box at all.

[utensil4778]

Linux in general has been the most reliable of any OS I've used in the last 5 years or so. Well, except maybe Android.

Windows is the worst of the worst, but every Linux distro I've tried works great and actually supports every feature of Bluetooth. Unlike Windows, who only implements the barest of minimums, and about half of those features just don't work.