Bluetooth Sound Quality very low during calls/ using Microphone

Question

I run windows 11 on my HP Omen 15 Laptop. My issue is that whenever I use Bluetooth headphones the Audio Quality goes far down during calls on Discord or such. It is only when during a call. I am not aware of any Setting that I would find to fix this. Tried searching through Posts and Sites to find an answer and nothing helped. Note: These aren´t the first headphones I experienced this issue with and other people that I know also experience this issue. Turning off the permission to use the microfone for applications seems to help although is kinda counterproductive as I won´t be able to talk.

Answer 1

Hello Leon,

I am Jaspreet Singh.

Sadly this is not an issue with the headset or your system but a limitation of Bluetooth itself. In the talking or headset mode the audio bandwidth available for receiving audio is reduced to provide it to the audio being transferred from the mic hence the reduction in quality and why it improves when you turn off mic.

Answer 2

Hello!

I didn`t know that. It doesn´t really specify that Information anywhere.

I saw in the Recordings settings that it does limit it to 1 Channel and a very low Quality, but I didn´t know it had such an big impact.

Anyways, thank you for answering my question!