How to achieve high-quality sound in Bluetooth when using a microphone?

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Sorix2019-04-10 12:56:09

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Sorix, 2019-04-10 12:56:09

Tired of messing around with wires, I would like to switch to wireless headphones (for example, Beats Studio 3 Wireless ). However. I already got burned once about AirPods with a microphone issue.
When connecting headphones (there was an experience with AirPods) with a macbook, the sound is excellent, there are no problems. However, one has only to turn on the microphone, immediately the quality of the reproduced sound drops very much. I am often in voice communication for a long time (conferences at work, Discord in games), so sometimes music plays softly in the background or some system sounds go on and I am very annoyed when the incoming sound drops to the level of an old phone.
As I understand it, the problem is using Bluetooth profiles, with one-way signal transmission (microphone off), a high-quality A2DP profile is used. As soon as the microphone is turned on, the headphones go into headset mode and the HSP / HDP profile works, which produces low-quality mono sound. I had a similar story on AirPods, I had to sell them because of this.
Question: is it possible to somehow solve this problem on wireless headphones when used with a computer? For example, I want to buy Beats Studio, but won't I have the same story as with AirPods, when they only work in mono mode with the microphone turned on? I have a suspicion that this is a problem of all headphones in general and it cannot be solved, but maybe different Bluetooth headphones behave differently, are there other profiles or something else?

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ValdikSS, 2019-06-07
@Sorix

No way. There is no standard for two-way transmission of high-quality audio via Bluetooth. The maximum that can be achieved: 16 kHz audio in both directions.

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rPman, 2019-04-11
@rPman

Look for a wireless computer headset, not bluetooth, they connect via usb or even directly to analog connectors through a small transceiver, and the data is sent over the air in its own format, without quality restrictions.
A long time ago, when I studied the issue, all the proposals were quite cumbersome and expensive. If you have mac or android, then you need to check compatibility if it's usb.
Now the first available solution with good reviews costs about 5t.r.