Better Ubuntu Bluetooth Driver

[JimmyJames26]

I got some Sony wireless headphones and they work great with my phone but are very quiet on pop-OS/Ubuntu. Upping the sound limit didn’t help at all. Anything else I could try? Thank you!

[Kiba Snowpaw]

Hmm.. idk i don't think it's the Bluetooth Driver itself but the headphone driver or sound card driver. i have 2 different MB with win 10, and they have two different max sound vol. one is Realtek, and the other is creative, and they both are built-in sound. i don't know that much about soundcard, but I'm sure it has something to with the sound card driver over the Bluetooth driver. Also, Bluetooth, i think, have a limit on what they can send over Bluetooth. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-bluetooth-audio/

[thetargos]

You can open Pavucontrol and enable your device to go beyond the 100% mark. Some ALSA drivers indeed set the gain a tad lower. You can also try to set the level in alsamixer (TUI tool from the command line), just be careful as to which device ALSA sees the headset, so you may want to check, once paired, the contents of /proc/asound/pcm and invoke alsamixer with the -c # argument, where # is the numerical reference of the 'card', for instance:

alsamixer -c 2

Keep in mind that Pulse Audio uses a special ALSA device for its default sink (-c 0), and usually -c 1 is the first audio device as detected and ennumerated by ALSA, so if you have multiple audio devices, -c may vary quite a LOT.

[Zaphod]

See if you can switch profiles for the headset under audio options. I use a Bose headset for work, and there are two different profiles. One with decent sound quality for output and no input. The other one has input as well as output, but the sound quality is awful.