Low volume and terrible audio quality from Headset with 3.5 Headphone Jack, speakers and Bluetooth work fine

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Hello,

I recently installed Manjaro on a Razer Blade 14 (coming from a Stealth 13 with Linux Mint) and the sound quality and volume from a headset plugged into the 3.5" are atrocious / unusable.

The computer speakers work great, however, and via Bluetooth the same headset works perfectly.

I’ve played around in ALSAMixer and PulseAudio, the volume for the headset is set to 100% and is very quiet, and there is no bass at all (it sounds like an old phonograph). I don’t see anywhere else I can be looking, but I’m happy to provide any useful info.

Thanks!

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From your description you may need an adaptor for the headset jack like this:

3.5mm-CTIA-to-OMTP-Converter
3.5mm-CTIA-to-OMTP-Converter1000×1000 150 KB

Sound only if headphones are half plugged in, work fine in windows

The wiring standard can be be tested by measuring resistance across jack connections
Headphone connections would be 16 Ω or higher
Microphone would be 1,000 Ω or higher
3.5 mm Headset: Accessory Specification  |  Android Open Source Project

Headphones with a 3-pole TRS jack plug would not be affected