Fix for poor A2DP quality for Bluetooth headphones under Windows 8, 8.1 and 10!

Michael Visser

11 years ago

Your problem starts when the voice Bluetooth component is activated.

I’ve been happily using my Bluebuds X Bluetooth Headphones for the past 6 months without problem between my Windows 7 laptop and Sony Xperia Sola but after updating to Windows 8 this peace has ended in cracking and hissing reminiscent of low quality internet radio.

To resolve this and bring back full A2DP high quality Bluetooth streaming try the following:

Open Devices and Printers from Hardware and Sound within the Control Panel
Expand the Bluetooth headphone listed under Devices by double clicking it
Switch to the Services tab within the Properties dialog
Turn off Hands-free Telephony and click OK

Screenshots

Open the Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers screen.

Right click the BlueBuds X Bluetooth device.

Switch to the Services tab of the BlueBuds X Properties screen.

Untick the Hands-free Telephony to ensure stereo Bluetooth bliss.

Re-connect to your Bluetooth headphones and play a song from your Windows 8 machine, fingers crossed the hissing is gone! I’ll be updating to APT-X shortly which will do away with reliance on Bluetooth for audio but Bluetooth will still be required for track changes, etc. Hope this helps!

Update: This same fix works for Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10 😀