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.

  • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    Yeah I have these same headphones, and hate to break it to you, but I’ve only managed to successfully use them for listening to music only. As soon as you put em in headset mode, the audio quality drops to shit, regardless of codec. I also had the same problem on windows as well as linux though.

    I personally have a turtle beach headset for gaming, comes with its own dongle, plug and play on any os I’ve tried. Sound quality obviously not for audiophile uses, doesn’t quite compare with the Sonys but for gaming, they more than meet the requirements, still plenty of bass etc. I must’ve had em, shit, like 7 years maybe? Maybe more? Still going strong with zero issues. I’ve got the older generation with micro usb connector. I have relatives with the newer gen (with usb c, smaller dongle) and they are even more comfy, and again, zero issues after a couple years or so.

    Okay so they look at little different to what I remember so they may well have brought out a new generation by the looks of things. I must have gen 1, then a couple friends/relatives have gen 2, they’ve got gen 3 out now. Do a little homework first but more than likely they will be great. They are the Turtle Beach Stealth 600.

    Apologies if this reads like an ad, just offering advice lmao. Ignore my last two paragraphs if u aint interested in my opinion.

    • scala@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      I also have these same headphones. They work well but often switch to mono when joining in-game chats. It’s quite annoying.

      On top of that, if you manually swap back to SBC or AAC your mic stops working. Such fun.

    • SaneMartigan@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Thanks for the recommendation, I found a cheap pair of TBS 600 gen2 refurbs so I’m going with that.

    • vividspecter@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      Yeah I have these same headphones, and hate to break it to you, but I’ve only managed to successfully use them for listening to music only. As soon as you put em in headset mode, the audio quality drops to shit, regardless of codec.

      This is just inherent to the blutooth audio protocol. Put it in headset mode, get trash tier audio quality or disable the mic and get acceptable quality audio. There might be some proprietary extensions that bypass this but they aren’t likely to be supported on Linux.

      LE audio should be better in this respect, but it’s not widely yet (and not by the XM4)

      • vividspecter@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Have at look at the AKG N9 too. Great quality audio (and has an EQ profile on AutoEQ if you want to enhance it further) and low latency + high mic quality since it uses a device specific 2.4ghz protocol.

        Downside is that the dongle is only supported by the exact headset and you can’t easily replace it, so don’t lose the thing. We really need a audio specific protocol that isn’t tied to bluetooth I think, but it is what it is.