AirPods and OSX audio quality - fixed

[balzz]

So far I've been happy with the AirPods on my iOS devices but when I switched to my Mbp, I was horribly disappointed. Audio quality sounded like an AM radio. Searched here first but didn't find any posts on it. Fired up the google and came across a few articles and tried a couple of things. This worked for me:

In terminal

sudo killall coreaudiod
defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "Apple Bitpool Min (editable)" -int 90
sudo killall coreaudiod

I've tested this with the very large sample size of 1 so ymmv.

 

[Mr.C]

Yes I've noticed that the audio quality through my MacBook Pro is poor compared to my iPhone 7 Plus and iPad Pro. I really hope they fix this through a software update as it's annoying. I don't want to go through the malarchy you mentioned to fix it.

 

[Macalway]

Thanks for the help. I'm not sure what those terminal commands do, so I'll wait for more input.