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by 12ian34 1879 days ago
Interesting that the HFP is usable for you. When I've tried to get it working on Linux using blueman, pavucontrol and pulseaudio-bluetooth, switching to HFP is so terrible that I default back to the trusty 3.5mm TRRS jack for calls.

I haven't personally tried it on a MacBook but I do know that colleagues seem to use their bluetooth headphones just fine with no clear quality drop.
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Oddskar 1879 days ago
This is due to PulseAudio not having proper support for decent quality HFP/HSP. There was a PR to PulseAudio for this exact thing that seemed to have been completely stranded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge...

Edit: actually there might have been some movement on this after all? Some comments in that ticket seem to indicate that this has been improved on master.

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12ian34 1879 days ago
Thanks for linking this, I hadn't come across this before. You're right there does seem to be some very recent progress. I'll have a go with what's in the master branch there.
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rombert 1879 days ago
The latest development version (unreleased) of Pulse Audio has great support for HFP with WBS/mSBC.

I've been using it for weeks (months?) with great results.

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Oddskar 1879 days ago
Wow, wonderful news. Thanks!
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rkangel 1879 days ago
Yes - I get the same (good) performance as Windows on multiple Linux machines. I'm running Fedora which may help, but I had to do no fiddling - just worked 'out of the box'.
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