Bad audio quality with bluetooth

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hi i am very new to endevouros ( and linux in general ) and i am having trouble with my bluetooth earbuds . i dont know if this is a bluetooth issue or a sound issue but for example watching youtube or anything like that the audio sounds great but joining something like a discord call or playing a game that has voice chat the quality of the sound gets really bad .
when i open pavucontrol i can see the audio codec automatically switches from ACC to mSBC how do i stop this ? is there a driver i am missing or a setting that needs to be changed ? i used nobara linux for a time and i did not have this problem ever
this is a fresh install of endevouros
sorry if this post is not in the right forum im not really sure where to put it i made this account just to post
i can try to provide any info that will be needed .

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This is a very different distro than Nabara/Fedora. EndeavourOS is a Minimal Arch based system which requires more from the end user. With EndeavourOS your getting a barebone OS with a few Graphical Highlights and a few tools to assist in maintenance.

Start with.
Providing Logs of at least some of the basic info would go along way in helping.
Providing information about audio device / Bluetooth device.
DE?

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hi thank you for the reply , i want to help by posting logs but i dont know what or how to. this is all very different from what i am used to sorry for the noob reply

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Start here.
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/forum-log-tool-options/how-to-include-systemlogs-in-your-post/2021/03/

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oh i think i see now .
im not sure if this is the information you need but this is the output of inxi -Fxxc0z
i am using samsung galaxy buds

System:
  Kernel: 6.13.3-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.1 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
    Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aef
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.3-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-6:4 chip-ID: 13d3:3563
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
    lmp-v: 11