Bluetooth headphones loss of quality

I have a HP g6-2006AX. After upgrading the Bluetooth 4.0HS drivers, my bluetooth headset is outputting very low quality sound. Before, it was fine. I do not know whether it is the driver or hardware which is causing this problem.

Hello Kim7122,
If it started right after the driver update it may have been the driver that caused the problem.
Go into device manager, double click the Bluetooth.
Click driver tab.
Roll back the driver.
Let me know how everything goes.

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