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I found it to be a headache trying to get LE Audio to work on my Windows machine. It should provide good audio quality when the microphone is in use but:

- I have to have BLE v5.2 at least on my Windows device - It must have isosynchronous audio support (which I believe is an optional feature in the spec)

- The headset must have the same features too.

Then it is a question of which audio codecs are supported on those 2 devices. It's quite messy to be honest.



On Linux it is even worse: there is apparently no USB dongle that would support isochronous audio and recent enough BLE versions. Only some very limited selection of newer PCIe Wi-Fi cards.


https://www.sennheiser-hearing.com/en-UK/p/btd-700

Works on SteamOS out of the box and with all the features as far as I can tell.


That dongle has its own Bluetooth stack and is exposing a standard audio device via USB. Indeed that currently seems to be the only way, but then the stack need config input somehow, which in case of this one requires a proprietary Win/Mac Software.




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