Airpods Pro: very bad quality in Headset mode on Windows 10

Anonymous
2020-04-02T12:50:11+00:00

Dear all,

I've got my new Airpods Pro, they work well with my iPhone.

Also on Windows 10 via bluetooth, sound quality is good when using the "Airpods stereo" mode.

However, in the headset mode ("Airpods Hands-Free AG Audio") sound and especially microphone quality is extremely bad. I tried to change the default format (see screenshot, it's only 8000Hz), but I cannot change it as it's grey. Any advice to get a better microphone quality?

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Anonymous
2022-01-17T19:57:00+00:00

According to this post it should be fixed already in Insiders Build (currently Dev Channel only).

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-01-18T08:34:39+00:00

    I do not have any issues using Jabra or Plantronics (with their own BT dongles) and reading the message

    • We have added support for wideband speech when using Apple AirPods products (AirPods, AirPods Pro, or AirPods Max), improving audio quality for voice calls.

    it looks like Microsoft aims at Apple devices only.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-18T08:24:37+00:00

    Wow. That really seems like they've fixed it there. But is there a chance they'll add it to Windows 10 as well?

    And does it mean that other devices will enjoy the support as well, or is that strictly aimed at Airpods?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-13T05:40:48+00:00

    Man, I just read this entire thread after experiencing this issue myself, the history is insane (sorry for nothing helpful). also yea using ur laptop built in mic with ur airpods on headphones mode seems to work the best but for people with a docked laptop this doesn't work as well

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-01-09T10:09:19+00:00

    You are just confusing other people. There are only 2 possibilities on Windows. Period.

    1. Headset - very bed audio quality, but you can use mic
    2. Headphones - normal quality, but you can NOT use mic

    You cannot set spatial audio on Headset, only on Headphones. You just most likely just switched to using Headphones as your audio output device and you didn't notice. Although having that set is useful, don't get me wrong.

    You cannot use both at the same time as iPhone and Mac does, this is an issue of Windows.

    There are no bluetooth headphones that don't have this issue.

    And one more really cool feature is, that if you switch to Headphones while some application is using the mic from headset, you wouldn't hear anything.

    Since I mainly bought Airpods for using with Windows I returned them.

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