Headset fidelity question...

Yesterday I bought a cheap Bluetooth headset and paired it with my 12" PowerBook. It paired, and it functioned on the first try. But I am a little disappointed because the sound quality is poor.
It's not that I wanted to listen to music with it or anything, but when I use it for recording, it sounds awful. Looking at the Audio MIDI Setup app, it looks like the headset is limited to 8 kHz audio in either direction.
My question is: Is this a limitation of the headset (meaning I could fix it by getting a better headset), or a limitation of the protocol or of OS X, meaning that I am stuck?
I was hoping to be able to use the headset to control 'speakable items' on the computer, but 8 kHz is not high enoug fidelity for that. I'm thinking in terms of using it in the car, where the computer does navigation and audio. The neat thing is that I can get it to play dialog boxes and alert sounds to the headset while playing iTunes through the audio port that goes to the radio, so I could literally use the headset to have a conversation with the computer that wouldn't disturb everybody else in the vehicle. But not with such low microphone fidelity.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I was in the exact same situation...except I wanted to use mine for speakable items. (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1109423#1109423) but sad to say, it's the headset technology. Even if you go out and get another one, they're all limited (as far as I know).

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