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I don't know much by way of relevant levers on the Linux side that you could pull that might affect behavior on the headphones side.
If you can disable aptX (on my system, you can see this in the device settings in pavucontrol) you might get lower-quality but more-reliable sound.
What version of Mint? Do you know what sound system you’re using? Pulse or the new pipewire (depends mostly on Mint version).
Mint 21.3
Kernel 6.8.0.51 generic
pipewire --version
Compiled with libpipewire 0.3.48
Linked with libpipewire 0.3.48
You should consider increasing your pipe wire buffer size or time quantum.
You can use pw-top to see if you’re falling behind processing frames perhaps because you’re not able to meet the configured latency requirements, causing silence to come out when you’ve got too many requests.
I will say there’s a lot of Bluetooth stack under your audio stack, so there’s a whole myriad of possibilities here.
Nothing to see, this was during the weird sound.
I'm not sure if it is an issue on the PC end or the headset end.