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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 18, 2014 2:40 PM in response to mommu

Updated to 10.10.1, audio still lagging. Tried re-pairing my headset but the issue persists. Tried clearing SMC and PRAM, no results.

In the bug report I submitted to Apple, after I provided some BluetoothReport diagnostics they requested, I was told that my report was a duplicate of another issue, so apparently they truly are aware of the problem.

Nov 19, 2014 8:10 PM in response to mommu

Have the same issue with Logitech bluetooth audio adapter from the moment I've upgraded to Yosemite. The latest update does not fix the problem. I get when the first version has a few bugs, but after this issue was reported by like everyone who's using bluetooth audio and Apple still has failed to recognize it and include a fix in this update... Gee. Very disappointed.

Nov 20, 2014 12:55 AM in response to mommu

Heres my latest update with the Bluetooth problem.

I did a clean reinstall of Yosemite to wipe any possible conflict from my end of the matter.

The system worked smooth for a few days as I caustially added programs like VLC and didn't use Bluetooth, just plugged-in headphones.


I started to use bluetooth and the lagging problems started again. What's more my memory and CPU problems also started acting up tho I dont know if they're related.
And this was with a clean system i.e. no weird 3rd party applications.


so i erased the harddrive again and did an Internet Recovery process, bringing my late 2012 iMac to Mountain Lion.

I was headed to Mavericks OS and decided to do a quick test of Mountain Lion.

In mountainlion I checked the Activity Monitor and all the processes that were taking up large amounts of memory or CPU usage were gone.

I used iTunes to test the music.

What I noticed was in Mounatin Lion, bluetooth worked.

If I was performing another big process it would clip but it was different kind of sound problem than Yosemite.


While Yosemite, upon these "skips" whether it was the system thinking or a quick break up of connection between comp and external hard drive the sound would skip.

But it would also find its previous place in the song and I suffered no delayed audio just stuttering, which was minimal. Way better than whatever Yosemite was doing. I'd be interested in how bluetooth works. Just before I did a Mountain Lion reinstall, I noticed in the Clean version of Yosemite that upon sound skipping (the point at which the BT headphones would go out of sync and start delay) the headphones could find their proper place again after the skip.

After a delay in audio I would press the pause button and the headphones would "find themselves" again at the last point in the song or video.


Now I'm in Mavericks and I'll try this system. So far i already have 550 mbs dedicated to "kernel task" which is the same as Yosemite. Mountain Lion had no processes this large in the short time I spent with it. I've yet to try Bluetooth with Mavericks but it was definitely a step in the right direction getting out of Yosemite.

My two cents.

Nov 20, 2014 6:24 AM in response to readytorun

I'm with you, readytorun. I have two MacBook Pro 2011 models. One is running Mavericks and the other is Yosemite. Mavericks is great - I rarely have issues. For the life of me, I have no clue why I updated to Yosemite. I can't listen to music or watch video. God forbid I try to do two tasks at the same time. And now, every time my cell phone rings, my **** laptop starts ringing and won't ever stop - even long after the phone call is over. UGH.

Nov 20, 2014 10:14 AM in response to w84me2p

OK, I might be jumping the gun, and I don't know what the technical fouls are, but when I have Yosemite installed , for whatever reason, it does not work with my system, even a complete clean system with nothing on it (like possible conflicting 3rd party apps).


I did an internet Recovery, went back to Mountain Lion and upgraded to Mavericks. While my "kernel task" memory remains high, as it should, the CPU percentages which were showing at 300% with the same "kernel task" in Yosemite was ridiculous and left me with a system where I couldn't open even 2 applications. and forget Bluetooth.


So far, after a day of pushing this system (Mavericks) to the limit of what Yosemite, for some reason, just couldn't pull off: VLC movie playing from an external drive source, while downloading a file, playing a 1st person shooter network video game, emptying the trash, listening to iTunes and all on bluetooth...


- and things work fine.


normal cpu percentages, mail works, bluetooth is probemless - the OS just feels solid.


so even if theres still some hat trick I didn't try over the past month with Yosemite - and it does look nice and clean.. right now Mavericks is solid.

It just works.

Bluetooth audio lag

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