That would be your headset being in headset mode. I'm on Debian Testing, and I'm finally able to exit headset mode and use a high quality audio codec instead. I hope that's the direction Linux is heading.
Oh no, it's not. I've swapped modes more than imaginable. And even if it were in headset mode the quality would be inacceptable compared to what I was getting on windows. I even manually tried to change pulseaudio settinga for that device with no luck. And I don't feel like turning this thread into a debugging session. But, like, correctly figuring out reasonable bitrates should work by default.
