Poor microphone quality with Turtle Beach PX5 headset over Bluetooth and Ventrilo

I'm having a problem where I cannot seem to get good microphone audio out of my Turtle Beach PX5 Bluetooth headset when using my iMac and Ventrilo under OS X Snow Leopard.
In my testing, Skype test calls seem to be ok, but I'm told by those listening to me on Ventrilo that my voice has a distinctly distored sound, as if I'm swallowing the microphone or the sound is highly digitized. For comparison, I've been using a USB-based Polycom CX300 speakerphone that listeners have said sounds great.
I've also noticed that I cannot get the audio input level of headset to register more than about 50% on the meter, despite having the level slider set to maximum.
It's difficult for me to tell if it's the headset, Bluetooth on the Mac, Ventrilo or some other odd combination. I'm going to try passing the devices through to Windows 7 on Parallels and test Ventrilo from there to see if there's any difference.
Any suggestions from folks better versed on the Mac than I am would be greatly appreciated.

I can add a data point: this is the same thing that happens with the Harmon Kardon BT headphones--which, amazingly, just started working today for some reason I don't understand. It's almost as if the bi-directional audio requires a different profile to acommodate the bidirectional nature of the audio.
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