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Bluetooth audio lag

Just updated (17th.Oct.2014) to OS X Yosemite. Im having trouble with bluetooth connection. There is an audio lag on my bluetooth headphone which progressively gets worse. Im using Sony DR-BTN 200. Is there a temporary solution until they fix it?


P.S. I found others with similar issues as well. Ive tried re-pairing the connection to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 9:27 AM

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Nov 10, 2014 7:21 AM in response to mommu

Hi.

I have the same blutooth-sound-lag&stutter - issues after upgrading to Yosemite a few weeks ago.

Mid2009 and a Harman Kardon Onyx Studio speaker.

It is especially noticeable while I do fileoperations in finder - I try to delete every second or third file in a folder, using the arrowkeys to navigate, and my sound stutters terribly. Else there´s “just” a 2-10 second delay.


Still; kind regards and warm thanks for all the quality work that up through the years must have gone into making Apple´s hardware and software. My Macbook Pro is more than 5 years old now and I´ve never used any mechanical or technical equpment this much for so long with so few problems! :-)

A quality-standard public administration of any society could learn from!


But in my mind I can see Steve Jobs turning in his grave on this one - it breaks exactly what he wanted to create, a bicycle for the mind. Now it feels like I have to drag a wreck behind me while walking, exactly the same feeling Microsoft Windows gave me for 20 years in a row. There I had to be an engineer fixing the bicycle until it broke again. I made a good but harmfully stressful living doing that. So I switched to Apple…

Do you remember what product Steve made in order to save Apple? The iPod musicplayer. And now this happens to music playback.. My DJ friends is NOT upgrading, that´s their clear verdict.


Apple; you´ve grown to be the biggest company ever, and deserved it; how on earth were you able to this quickly mess up what you inherited from Steve?

Did you fire some core engineers to save money? Were the new icons that demanding and important? Did the US government force you to implement CPU&databus-consuming minute detailed logging&surveilance services?

In general; what the $#%&$%& is suddenly stealing all the recources the hardware actually delivers?


Also; (just like in windooze) now I have to download&install Adobe flash manually, as if I ever cared for that company.. :-(

Will I need drivers for my soundcard next?


People; I reccomend not upgrading to Yosemite if you can avoid it - I have all kinds of “lag&stutter” behaviour elsewhere too, switching between programs, surfing the net, quitting programs, starting programs, getting all kinds of unneccesary dialogs boxes, spinning wheel, short hangs etc. etc. Shure; spotlight is in the middle of the screen and quite responsive, but most everything else is less responsve and more intrusive.


Apple might not care about these forums, but they repeatedly boast how many of their customers have upgraded to the latest version of their OS´s, if it drops they might notice.


Best wishes.

atle

Nov 11, 2014 7:04 AM in response to mommu

Dear Apple,


What the ****? I've been following this thread for weeks hoping for a resolution. I've tried all of the suggestions several times, and finally want to add my voice to the throngs of frustrated supporters. I've been unable to use my bluetooth headphones for weeks now and I really miss them. To be clear, they still work, but the sound is so choppy that it's like listening to a radio station that you can't quite tune into. Only this is worse, because I pay to stream my music and shows. I move around while I'm working so I can't use wired headphones. Please don't ignore this issue. We have nowhere else to turn.


Sincerely,


Still Waiting

Bluetooth audio lag

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