Actually most laptops (or desktops) can't compete with USB sound cards. Because the audio chips that come on your motherboard:
* are usually cheaper and lower quality; * often have limited kernel/ALSA driver support (which is why the alsa-driver bug backlog is always out of control); * often suffer from noise on the headset jack from the digital-to-analog stage being too close to the rest of the computer. So I strongly recommend USB audio in general. Especially for wired headsets where you can also avoid the lossy nature of Bluetooth audio encoding. And for Bluetooth audio, such a USB dongle sounds like a great workaround for this bug. But we all wish it wasn't necessary. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1838151 Title: Poor quality audio with modern Bluetooth headsets in HSP/HFP. Missing wide band speech support (Bluetooth A2DP codecs). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/1838151/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
