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Is it supposed to work? It just keeps dropping connection.

Just used wired headphones. The lag is unbelievable.

iirc switch is using bluetooth 4 which is terrible for audio. anything lower than bluetooth 5 has tons of drops/disconnects in my experience

BucketCat posted...

iirc switch is using bluetooth 4 which is terrible for audio. anything lower than bluetooth 5 has tons of drops/disconnects in my experience

Bluetooth 4 generally sucks for audio, Bluetooth 5 is better though I'm holding off on buying more bluetooth headphones/earbuds until 5.4 becomes more widely available, since latency is said to be like 4 times better than 5.3 without the need of special codecs like APTX-LL (which many devices do not support).

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BucketCat posted...

iirc switch is using bluetooth 4 which is terrible for audio. anything lower than bluetooth 5 has tons of drops/disconnects in my experience

Nintendos slogan could be its better than nothing.

I only use it for YouTube music and nothing else cos the delay is unplayable for any action game and unpleasant for chill games too so just use wired

super_felicia posted...

I only use it for YouTube music and nothing else cos the delay is unplayable for any action game and unpleasant for chill games too so just use wired

I could put up with delay or quality loss for convenience but I cant seem to stay connected.

I believe the drops are due to when online connectivity occurs. I know some motherboards use the WiFi signal for Bluetooth as well. Which may be the issue I am having.

Dakimakura posted...

I could put up with delay or quality loss for convenience but I cant seem to stay connected.

I believe the drops are due to when online connectivity occurs. I know some motherboards use the WiFi signal for Bluetooth as well. Which may be the issue I am having.

mine drops off last time I tried randomly but not common enough to bother me