Bluetooth Audio Quality Bad

The sound glitches stutters or is choppy.

Bluetooth audio quality bad. For an over simplified comparison the standard for cd quality is 1 4 mbps. You can follow the question or vote as helpful but you cannot reply to this thread. The audio quality when using my bluetooth speakers in windows 10 is really poor. Windows won t tell you if it s using aptx.

Having distortion or bad sound quality in windows 10 with bluetooth headphones or other devices. This fix applies only to playback devices speakers headphones etc. Fix a common issue with the bad sounding audio with bluetooth speakers and headphones on windows 10. Bluetooth headphones and speakers at times start to stutter.

As audio website darko audio puts it. Here s a corresponding driver from lenovo it s dated 2012 and reads windows 8 1 inside the installer but it says it s windows 10 compatible. Bluetooth speakers aren t meant to work over long distances but most have good range. The upcoming bluetooth 5 should.

If you somehow got switched to handsfree mode then the audio quality will be much worse since some of the bluetooth bandwidth will be taken up for the microphone. This thread is locked. Broadcom bluetooth 4 0 driver for windows 10 32 bit 64 bit 8 1 64 bit 8 64 bit notebook lenovo support. We try to answer that question in this post.

The quality of stereo audio through bluetooth has improved over time. For many years the de facto standard codec for bluetooth audio was low complexity sub band coding sbc. Regular listening device and a handsfree mode where you can use both the audio and microphone. The current aptx codec which is marketed as an upgrade to the mandated sbc codec delivers cd like audio quality over bluetooth wireless.

Try this easy fix. Recent versions of bluetooth at least theoretically permit data speeds of up to 25 mbps. Just remember that both the bluetooth source and sink devices must support the aptx codec in order to benefit. Bluetooth audio s dirty secret is not that it doesn t sound very good it s that it will only sound good if certain conditions are met.

Why is this and how can i fix it. Ok by googling the first identifier i was able to determine it s a broadcom bcm2070 bluetooth 2 1 edr device. Some will stutter from day one while others will do it at random. In both cases there doesn t seem to be an obvious cause to the bluetooth audio problems.

But how bad is it really.