Bluetooth Headphones sound terrible on Mac OS X?
Problem
I got a pair of Plantronics bluetooth headphones. Work great with my iPhone. Sounds terrible with my Mac, cuts out, sounds choppy, sounds mono to me. A co-worker tells me he has the same problem. BTW, I'm on Leopard, patched up. So question is: What is the deal? Is it fixable?
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Fix for: Bluetooth Headphones sound terrible on Mac OS X?
In case anyone ends up here, like me, experiencing this problem on a more recent Mac OS (in my case Sierra): None of the other solutions here worked for me. Sierra doesn't give the option to connect in headset or headphones mode, and the bitpool setting made no difference. I finally figured it out: Going to sound preferences and manually changing the sound input device back to Internal Microphone seemed to switch my headset into headphone mode, making the sound quality worlds better. Note that …
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