Bluetooth Audio from Mini

[peeaanuut]

I just swtiched over to mac and am running into my first annoyance. When I had my PC I had a motorola bluetooth dongle and a pair of HT820 sterepo headphones. They sounded great. Good Bass and clean sound. I could walk nearly around my house and there was no cutout. But I also remember it connecting as a "high quality" audio device vs pairing my cellphone bluetooh headphone (jabra) and it being a "low quality" audio device. Unfortunately I do not see that as an option for the mac. It connects and I can listen to music and I even have the option of turning on and off the microphone. However the music audio quality is horrible. The same as the low quality sounded on the PC. Am I missing a driver or is this just the way the mac puts the audio out?

I also use the headphones at work on win 2k and win xp and I get the "high quality" connection option and they sound great.

Am I doing something wrong on the mac?

 

[milk242]

I believe because OS X doesn't have an A2DP bluetooth profile your audio quality will be poor. Are you using the dongle that came with the headphones or the built in BT?

 

[peeaanuut]

the headphones didnt come with a USB dongle. i got it with an iPod adapter instead that plug into the data port. I have been using it with a PC850 Motorola dongle for my pc at work.

 

[milk242]

you would need to get a usb bt dongle that supported A2DP or you can do this hack that's floating around the internet... http://blog.david.connolly.name/2007/06/stereo-bluetooth-profile-a2dp-on-mac-os.html I have never tried this hack and I don't know if it works but if you want to try go for it.