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My need for bluetooth headphone is very simple, if I can understand youtube videos, I am happy. And I am using WF-1000MX4, which works wonderfully just using the gnome gui.
I never need to worry about pipwire or pulse audio etc.
Fun fact to keep in mind about your MX4 - if you use the "pair with two devices simultaneously" feature, the headphones shut off their LDAC support. All you get is the baseline audio codec. Nice, huh?
That scenario would definitely be the time to use SBC-XQ.
http://soundexpert.org/articles/-/blogs/audio-quality-of-sbc-xq-bluetooth-audio-codec
(I have the over the ear XM3 that don't support multiple devices, but also have a Bose 700 that does. The Bose 700 does AAC, but I find SBC-XQ better. On the Sony it's a toss-up, so I stick to LDAC. I'm using Fedora Silverblue 39 with PipeWire for reference.)
I haven't had much luck with XQ. I don't believe that Bluetooth can reliably find enough bandwidth for it, unless you're willing to blow up a few neighbor's WiFi points/baby monitors/microwaves/weather radar stations.