{"id":41455,"date":"2023-12-13T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T21:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41455"},"modified":"2023-12-13T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T21:32:46","slug":"why-is-bluetooth-sound-quality-bad-on-my-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/13\/why-is-bluetooth-sound-quality-bad-on-my-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Bluetooth Sound Quality Bad on My Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recadio.com\/blog\/why-is-bluetooth-sound-quality-bad-on-my-mac\">Daniel Gonzalez Reina<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=38613928\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.recadio.com\/blog\/why-is-bluetooth-sound-quality-bad-on-my-mac\"><p>On the one hand you have that Macs will use a HFP when the microphone is in use, and on the other you have that HFP use audio codecs which prioritizes low latency over audio quality. Therefore,<\/p><p>&#x2620;&#xFE0F; Using the Bluetooth headset&rsquo;s microphone will make your Mac sacrifice audio quality to improve latency<\/p><p>Then, your headphones might have 10 year old codecs, which will need to really lower the quality of the sound to get decent latency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/\">ToothFairy<\/a> can help you get around this problem. If you enable the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/help\/improve-sound-quality-b\">Improve sound quality by disabling audio input from device<\/a> option, when you connect your headphones it will automatically switch the Mac&rsquo;s sound input back to the internal microphone (or whichever microphone you had been using) so that the headphones can use a high-quality codec for sound output.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Gonzalez Reina (via Hacker News): On the one hand you have that Macs will use a HFP when the microphone is in use, and on the other you have that HFP use audio codecs which prioritizes low latency over audio quality. Therefore,&#x2620;&#xFE0F; Using the Bluetooth headset&rsquo;s microphone will make your Mac sacrifice audio quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-12-13T21:32:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"1eea2ed0-83a2-4d28-80a2-4a0e399f6703","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-12-13T21:32:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AHuou0IOiTSiAokoOOZ9nAw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,422,30,32,2385,1687],"class_list":["post-41455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-audio","tag-bluetooth","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-toothfairy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41456,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41455\/revisions\/41456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}