Hi all, first time Manjaro (21.1.6 KDE) user here. I tried to connect some Bluetooth earphones and sound is really terrible. Issue persisted between different headphones, after restarts (including pulseaudio --k & --start) etc.
The arch docs suggested it was probably an A2DP vs HFP issue but no luck - they’re definitely using A2DP.
Pulseaudio docs suggested changing resampling mode (turning ON) and changing sampling rate in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf but no change there.
After reading lots of forum posts, I also tried commenting out some ifs (and endifs) in /etc/pulse/default.pa, as well as a suggestion that it was due to some Pipewire conflict (given both Pipewire and PulseAudio appear as running when I run inxi -F). I tried their suggestion of masking pipewire.socket and stopping pipewire.service. Also no change (have since undone).
I have Windows installed on a different partition on the same machine (XPS 9350) and Bluetooth works all fine, so not a hardware issue. Any suggestions? I’m new to Manjaro and Linux in general. Cheers!!