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Whether Bluetooth sucks or not I'm not sure. But man they didn't help themselves with the robotic voice "HUA-IP 20 Pro disconnect" followed shortly by "Connected to HUA-IP 20 Pro and GBK-w-006" every time something goes in or out of range.

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Yes that sucked. 5 years ago it was already possible to rename the device at least for Windows and macOS: https://adrianba.net/2020/12/18/changing-bluetooth-pc-name/

Anyway even fixing that and having only one device connected I feel that the Bose Quietcomfort would disconnect too easily or were too slow to reconnect after reopening a MacBook. This is noy a critique of Bose Quietcomfort, in fact all other headphones and soundboxes with bluetooth I tried were MUCH WORSE.

Ah, yes, I remember that Bose feature, I had a Bose BT speaker a few years ago (actually it's still here somewhere, but I haven't used it in a while). But I don't think it's a synthesized voice - the German version has a distinctly disappointed sound when it has to inform you that something has disconnected. Good to know that the headphones have that too (as a "con" argument for getting QC headphones).

It can be disabled, so it just beeps instead.

Thanks for the hint. In Bose connect the option is "voice alerts". Now just down to a modestly annoying beep.

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