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JBL headphones have miserable sound quality with bluetooth on laptop, deactivation of mic (the supposed fix) is not possible

I bought some JBL LIVE 650BTNC headphones and am trying to use them via bluetooth on a windows 8.1 laptop. The pairing works, but the sound quality is abysmal. This is not the case if connected via ...
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1 answer
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Can't Keep Bluetooth Earbuds Connected to PC

I recently bought a pair of Bluetooth earbuds. They work flawlessly with my smartphone but not with my PC. (Before I describe the issue, here is an idea of my setup. My PC is an HP Envy dv7 laptop ...
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How Do I Set Bluetooth Headset As Default Recording Device on ASUS VivoTab TF810C?

My bluetooth headset does not show up in recording devices on my ASUS VivoTab TF810C. It does show up and work for playback. I do have both "Show Disabled Devices" and "Show Disconneced Devices" ...
LambdaFox's user avatar
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1 answer
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How to play android phone audio on a windows 8.1 PC's speakers using bluetooth, when "just connecting" doesn't work?

This question has been answered before here, here, and here. All answers say that it basically just works when you pair the android phone with the windows PC and hit play on the phone. I have tried ...
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0 answers
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How to turn off a bluetooth speaker on windows shutdown?

I bought these bluetooth speakers and have been listening to music via these from my Windows 8.1 Dell Laptop on Winamp. I presently turn on the speaker and it connects to my laptop and streams music ...
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1 vote
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sound through both speakers and headset

I share my room with my roommate and both of us have different taste of music. I have a Bluetooth headset, an earphone and in-built speaker in my laptop. now i want to play song of my choice on one of ...
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2 votes
2 answers
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Automatically reconnect to Bluetooth speaker

I have two laptops, one runs windows 8.1 (Lenovo) and one runs windows 7 (Dell). I have a Bluetooth speaker: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JZVPGD6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=...
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3 votes
0 answers
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how to play audio from android to Windows 8.1 PC over bluetooth?

I am looking for a way to stream any audio from any app or music source from my samsung galaxy s4 to my windows 8.1 computer. All suggestions in similar threads did not work. I can only stream music ...
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1 answer
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How can I stop Hard disk spinning when bluetooth audio is played for NAS content?

I am keeping music folders on NAS drive and synced those to laptop through windows file synchronization. When playing these media files through WMP/VLC while redirecting output through bluetooth, HDD ...
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1 answer
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Bluetooth speaker cuts out when no audio is being played

Windows 8.1 Bose Soundlink Mini I have a Bose soundlink Mini paired with my Windows 8.1 computer. It works great for music, but if no sound is played for a few seconds then the speaker turns off it'...
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Connect audio device with bluetooth dongle

a couple months ago i bought a Bluetooth 3.0+EDR headset (Philips SHB7000). Now i can connect with my phone without problems. But my laptop hasn't Bluetooth build-in, so i bought a Bluetooth 4.0 ...
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Inconsistent sound support from Windows 8

I hope I can explain my problem as complete as possible. Recently I got me a pair of bluetooth headphones, because I loathe cables. I also got a bluetooth dongle for my windows desktop. I plugged it ...
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Why does play/pause on my Bluetooth headset not work with Spotify on Windows 8.1?

In Windows 8 (8.1 specifically) the play/pause button on my Sennheiser Bluetooth A2DP headphones does not play or pause Spotify. The track skip buttons work, but not the play/pause button. Windows 8 ...
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