SOLUTION EDIT:

So my solution has been to order a refurbished Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen2 with the dongle. It was $100 cheaper than the gen3 and I’m not that flush with cash that $100AUD doesn’t make a difference to me.

I can use the LDAC codec with the XM4s but it switches the mic off. I can’t get stereo and mic working at the same time likely due to the limitations of the bluetooth protocol.

I was also considering a blue yeti mic on a boom but it was looking to be the same price as the Turtle Beach refurbs.

Thanks everyone for all your input. Much appreciated.

ORIGINAL POST:

Hi everyone.

So I’m trying to use my Sony wireless cans over bluetooth for Arc Raiders and the mic isn’t very good at all. It’s better in discord but my friends tell me it’s still not great.

I’m aware of bluetooth duplex quality issues. It used to work fine on Windows 10 but is struggling on Bazzite. I’d love to just tinker with some settings or drivers and have it work so I don’t have to buy anything else.

I’m prepared to buy a wireless headset with 2.4ghz dongle but don’t know what’s good.

I’m also prepared to buy a microphone and just use the headset as headphones only.

I’ve done about five years help desk support so would strongly prefer not to be physically tethered to my computer.

Thanks for any advice.

  • strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    I have a set of Sony’s and I have to use an external mic otherwise it sets the device to hands free mode and the sound quality I hear is terrible, and in mono I think.

    Keep the device in headset mode and any codec will do. I haven’t found much difference.

      • strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Yeah that’s the issue then, as you correctly identified HD audio is not possible with microphone over a normal Bluetooth protocol. All other devices seem to have some kind of dongle and use a proprietary local wireless protocol instead.