Everyday Tech · Oct 7, 2026
If your Bluetooth headphones suddenly sound terrible, check this page
If your music suddenly sounds like a phone call from 2007, start here.

Bluetooth headphones can go from perfectly normal to embarrassingly bad audio without disconnecting, stuttering, or giving you any useful clue about what happened. Music suddenly sounds flat, compressed, and weirdly telephone-like, even though the connection itself looks completely healthy.