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Title: Having problems with Bluetooth audio quality on a Mac? Here are ways to fix it Post by: HCK on April 28, 2020, 04:05:14 pm Having problems with Bluetooth audio quality on a Mac? Here are ways to fix it
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Audio quality via a Bluetooth device can be a great mystery, partly because Bluetooth only mandates in its basic audio standard, A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), a low-quality audio encoding algorithm. An audio encoder takes a data stream and transforms it into whatever the best or agreed-upon quality both sides can take, often limited by the particular chips on each device and bandwidth available.</p><p>That means that the lowest-common denominator may prevail, even when both the sending and receiving devices have a variety of higher-quality options available that don’t match up or aren’t correctly invoked.</p><p>Depending on a host of factors, both a Bluetooth streaming device (sending or receiving audio) and a Mac may agree on an encoder that makes music sound like it’s playing over a landline telephone call.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3538798/mac-bluetooth-audio-quality-ways-to-fix-it.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Having problems with Bluetooth audio quality on a Mac? Here are ways to fix it (https://www.macworld.com/article/3538798/mac-bluetooth-audio-quality-ways-to-fix-it.html#tk.rss_all) |