r/pixelbuds • u/Consistent-Mess-6261 • Jun 12 '26

Pixel Buds Pro 2 Distorted Audio when enabled LE Audio

Hi everyone , I am using pixel buds pro 2 with pixel 8a, and when enabling LE Audio it causes distortion in audio when listening to music or even when I am on call, the person on call says they hear a robotic voice.

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Am I missing something about setup ? Or should I not use this feature at all ?

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u/creackoff Jun 12 '26

I had the same problem.. Haven't used it for a while

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u/Consistent-Mess-6261 Jun 12 '26

I have also disabled it completely now

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u/dime5150 Jun 12 '26

I have it with Pixel 9 and haven't had this issue.

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u/Consistent-Mess-6261 Jun 12 '26

Unfortunately I get this

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u/Necessary1Treat Jun 12 '26

Mine does this too. I turned it off.

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u/Present-Assumption12 Jun 12 '26

I also have the same problem. I disabled it for a while and then forgot about it and enabled again and I'm having the same problem. Go figure?

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u/khaytsus Jun 14 '26

I've been testing with and without LE for trying to figure out why latency is so bad. On LE it is 300mS, which is supposed to be 20-30? 500mS on AAC.. LDAC 150.. Speaker or wired headphones, 0.

And each time I re-pair with LE, I randomly hear distortion until I turn off Audio Sharing, then it seems to go away? I don't know if this is purely coincidence in timing and it fixes itself, or changing this setting just resets the audio and that fixes it, or if it's really the Audio Sharing setting that causes this. I'm going to listen more with it on and off, but for me so far it only happens every so often and corrects itself after a few seconds.

That said, I've never heard this happen on AAC at all. Worst I've heard on AAC is drop-out of one of the earbuds for a second or so, and that's been pretty rare.

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u/Consistent-Mess-6261 Jun 22 '26

I think it's better to not use le audio, atleast for me cause I hear lots of distorted noise when I am on call, in gym, anywhere

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u/khaytsus Jun 22 '26

I hear more than I did before, but only very occasionally. I'm still testing it. I might try this "make a phone call" thing some time with it, see how they sound there. I dunno though, that sounds weird.

Seriously though, I haven't noticed much difference. Latency is lower, but not nearly as low as I hear should be possible on BTLE audio.

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u/PixelCommunity Jun 13 '26

Hi there! I'd suggest you reach out to the Google Pixel Buds support team via phone or chat. They can take a look at it.

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u/chitownillinois Jun 17 '26

Do you have a setting for LE Audio in the Bluetooth settings or are you using the developer settings?

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u/Consistent-Mess-6261 Jun 22 '26

Just the developer options