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    Audio w/Beats sounds very bad

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by damstr, Jan 2, 2012.

  1. damstr

    damstr Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok so I thought it was my headphones (Beat HD Solo's) but I just plugged them into my Nexus and it sounds perfect the way the songs are suppose to sound and I can't figure out why.

    I'm using iTunes but doubt that's the reason it sounds so crappy because the songs also sound fine on my desktop using iTunes as well with these headphones. I looked around for some audio adjustments but besides the ones I found inside iTunes (which were completely useless btw) I didn't find anything.

    Anyone else experience very bad audio with this laptop?

    I just put like 13Gbs worth of music on this thing and its kind of disappointing. :/

    Thanks
     
    damstr, Jan 2, 2012
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    Fancysauce Notebook Consultant

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    do you have the idt sound driver from the dell website? the idt control panel has some srs enhancement stuff that you can use.
     
    Fancysauce, Jan 2, 2012
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    DraZziW Notebook Consultant

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    audio quality aint that good on the m15x
     
    DraZziW, Jan 3, 2012
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    My audio sounds wonderfull on my M15x. Have you looked in to the extended sound properties?
     
    csin, Jan 3, 2012
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    damstr Notebook Enthusiast

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    Are you talking about the settings under the IDT control panel or is that something else?
     
    damstr, Jan 3, 2012
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    damstr Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks I finally got around to playing around with this today. Definitely a lot better then before but still not on par with my phone but oh well.

    Btw Is there a program that will let me set the volume higher then the system will let me? I'm not finding it loud enough.
     
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    Fancysauce Notebook Consultant

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    no idea. I use a fiio e7 with mine which solves that issue (though i dont think you would want to spend 80 bucks to do it). when in doubt i just head to google :)
     
    Fancysauce, Jan 3, 2012
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  8. Hobgoblinpie

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    I made a tutorial about the sound quality issues before, but I can shorten it down for you.

    Delete IDT audio in the programs and features, restart your computer with an internet connection on, Windows will automatically download it's default drivers, and things will actually sound good. Enjoy.
     
    Hobgoblinpie, Jan 3, 2012
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  9. dutchess63

    dutchess63 Notebook Consultant

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    If you go into device manager, you see a whole bunch of HD sound devices listed where you can run your audio over. (depends on hardware see attached pic)

    Its just a matter of configuring the right way.. get the correct drivers etc. my opinion.
    Apart from total newbies not hard to do for The average M15x owner :)

    My sound is perfect (using IDT now)
     

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