UX31A w/ bluetooth speaker sounds horrible

recently got a bluetooth speaker. It pairs and works but sounds just awful with my zenbook. Everything else sounds perfectly fine with it including phones, ipads, and my sisters macbook, but just sounds like garbage with this ux31a. I tried a driver update and the sound quality is still nothing like the others. Do these laptops just suck at streaming sound over bluetooth? Is there anything I can do? I am so disappointing right now and to me off even more is how it works fine with my sisters macbook. I hate their OS. cant stand them. Please some one who has experienced this issue give me some info.

 

First, what brand are the bluetooth speakers? Are they LG by any chance? I'd try connecting another bluetooth component to your computer and seeing how it fares compared with the mac or another computer that handles the speakers okay. Since they seem to work fine on the Mac, it could be the ASUS' bluetooth, and it would of course be best to try some speakers with them but I understand getting your hands on some other bluetooth speakers might not be feasible. could you possibly try completely removing the driver and then updating? The thing is, anything is worth a shot but honestly I don't think that would be the silver bullet for this issue. Unfortunately, bluetooth is still one of the worst-standardized components and very few bluetooth-capable device manufacturers will actually go on a limb to guarantee their product with different computers because bluetooth is so hit-and-miss. It's honestly one of the most random technologies out there- I've seen lots of customers calling me asking why a BT speaker, keyboard, what have you, is great with computer X and won't do squat with computer Y. Sometimes it's not that bluetooth is broken. But go ahead and try to get other BT devices working on the problem computer first, to establish that it's not an antenna problem.

 

I have used a philips sound shooter and a jawbone jambox. both high quality speakers. I recommend the jambox it sounds amazing. Both sounded like crap with my phone. both sounded good with every single other device I paired it with.

 

Since BT is wireless, if the transfer rate is fast, then you can get quality audio output, but if transfer is slow, then you get lower quality of sounds due to limited bandwidth.
Below is the new driver for Win8.1, try it and see if it helps at all.

Win8
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/DriversForWin8/Bluetooth/Bluetooth_Intel_Win8_64_Z2612100278.zip

Win8.1
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb...tooth/Bluetooth_Intel_Win81_VER3113090390.zip