Windows 10: Can't select between Hands-Free and Stereo Outputs for Bluetooth Headphones on Windows 11

Hi,In Windows 10, I could select my Headphone's Stereo Output to use along with my laptop's microphone instead of using Hands-Free Output and Headphone's microphone. I used to use this as the Stereo Output has better sound quality and due to the fact that Hands-Free on most Bluetooth Headphones has some sort of transparency mode where ambient sound is heard.In Windows 11, this option is simply not there and I can only choose between my laptop speakers and my headphones and as a result, whenever I get on a call, it defaults to Hands-Free mode. Is there anyway to choose between Hands-Free and St

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Stereo Bluetooth Headphones do not reproduce stereo sound

Bluetooth 4.x headsets (headphones with microphone) have two modes:
1. Stereo headset speakers with NO microphone
2. Mono headset speakers with microphone

I see in the listing for your headphones it shows a microphone. Make sure your the audio is configured correctly so that you have stereo headphone speakers.

With your headphones connected with Bluetooth

Left-click on little speaker (bottom right on desktop)





You should see current speaker for computer
In this example headphones in stereo is selected





If you click on Headphones you will bring up all options





To see more…
Right-click on little speaker (bottom right on desktop)





Select Sounds from list





If you want Stereo Headphones but NO microphone

Select Playback tab
Make sure Headphones is the current playback device





Select Recording tab
Make sure Microphone array (or similar) is the current recording device

 

Zoom Audio not playing when connected to bluetooth transmitter

Bluetooth headsets have two modes because Bluetooth 4.x does not have enough bandwidth for both stereo speakers and a microphone at the same time.

• Hands-Free = Mono speakers + microphone
• Stereo = Stereo speakers + no microphone

Bluetooth headphones only need one mode because they don't have a microphone.

• Stereo = Stereo speakers

Airfly Pro is only designed to be used for stereo headphones or stereo speakers

I assume you are plugging the 3.5mm plug for the Airfly Pro into the input for the speakers
You then connect the laptop to the Airfly Pro using Bluetooth
For speakers in Zoom select Bluetooth Stereo
For microphone you select some microphone such as the one built into the laptop

The limitation of this setup is that you will only hear one side of the call on the speakers. What you say into the microphone won't be heard at all on the speakers. Another problem is that Bluetooth only has a maximum range of about 30 feet.

 

bluetooth headphones

setting up win10 Bluetooth and my Bluetooth headphones work fine ,but every time I reconnect the headphones I have to delete them from Bluetooth settings and let win10 pickup the headphones again ,before they will pair ,then win10 want to reboot to add the headphones ,I reboot and they work fine ,but next time I plug the headphone in again they will not pair ,don't even get an option to pair till I delete the head phones from the list ,, any suggestions ,, thank