The whole time I have used Discord on linux, the voice call audio has been terrible. This has persisted across installs, laptops and distros - Ubuntu, EndeavorOS, even pure arch, all the same. Before joining a call, everything is fine, then all audio (even outside the app) sounds incredibly compressed and low quality. It seems this only happens when wearing bluetooth headphones (sony) and is fine with inbuilt speakers.
@mightyspaceman I once tried getting Bluetooth headsets aka creative wp350 to work in linux distros was a nightmare since there was no apt-x in linux only A2DP and HFS which never helped the problem so I ditched the headset. Went with a corsair void series wired headset works way better.
@mightyspaceman
You're not going crazy (at least not for this reason)
My Sennheiser HD450BT pair had the same problem while using Discord connected to my Linux Mint laptop. Same problem while doing the same on my Pixel 4a.
@mightyspaceman I assume its switching from a High Quality audio-only mode to a low-quality headset mode whenn accessing the mic the first time. Many (all?) bluetooth headset support high quality audio output only without microphone. (A2DP vs HFS for reference)
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