[rincebrain]

Yeah, I got burned by this "philosophy" when I found their Elite 85h full headphones wouldn't play with anything but a very specific subset of my devices (my Android phone, amusingly, not among them) and tried to complain.

They do sell a dongle to make this work, and more generally I have heard you can use things like the Creative BT-W2/W3 to make Bluetooth devices that don't play well with whatever chipset/driver mess you have play well - because they just show up to the OS as a generic soundcard and don't mention the word Bluetooth to anything the OS can see, and their implementation, unlike many software/hardware vendors', _works_ robustly. But I have not personally tried it, yet.

(I'm still using the 85h for some things because the set of {USB-C charging, good noise cancelling, does not break with strange bugs in a week} headphones is much smaller than you might hope, but not for more general use.)

[peatmoss]

Creative BT-W3: I have one and it works exactly as it says on the tin. The only slightly annoying thing is that, once a headset is paired to the dongle, it is like The Highlander. There can be only one. It will snatch the connection to your headset before anything else can.

The remedy is to unplug the device from USB and then connect your headset device elsewhere.

A great feature is the light which will tell you what codec you’re connected with. An even greater feature is to press the button on the dongle and switch the codec. AptX-LL (low latency) is really nice for video games or videos generally. AptX-HD is acceptable for music if you’re not wed to lossless.