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    XPS 16: Any solution towards cracking speakers?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by alex09, Nov 3, 2009.

  1. alex09

    alex09 Notebook Guru

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    Hi,

    yesterday I received my XPS 16. Nice machine, BUT: the cracking speakers / subwoofer is hard to accept.

    I mainly listen to trance / techno music and the cracking noise is just there. Is there any patch or whatsoever? It's horrible ;/
     
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    perles75 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Something similar happened for my XPS M1530 and it went away by turning off the wireless
     
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    alex09 Notebook Guru

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    I tried that before ;) But didn't bring any improvement.
     
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    I had my sub speaker replaced twice under warranty to get a good one.

    They are awful quality. Second was even worse than the first. This third one isn't too bad and I rarely hear crackling now.
     
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    Really? Oh well... then I better call Dell.
     
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    haris163 Notebook Consultant

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    My subwoofer was cracking too in some movies/music with more bass than usual. I checked off the Bass Boost option in:
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    and the problem went away.

    I only had to do this in my replacement laptop, the first one (had screen issues) wasn't as sensitive. However, I don't want to mess with it as everything else in the laptop is working fine.
     
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    That's interesting. I don't have the "Bass Boost" option. Just the three other options. How can that be?
     
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    Get the latest IDT driver in Dell download site.
     
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    Nope, that can't be the reason. I already installed the latest IDT driver.
     
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    Yeah I don't have it any more either. Must have been removed from the latest IDT driver.
     
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    Thanks for the info iaTa.

    @haris163: Could you provide your IDT driver version? Would be awesome! Thanks.
     
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    haris163 Notebook Consultant

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    Version:6.10.0.6217
    Date:6/29/2009
     
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    Does anyone know if that one can still be downloaded somewhere?
     
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    Ah that's the one, thanks!

    The interesting thing is, I get that crackling noise with one particular youtube video (trance music). The rest seems quite okay. I will test it for a few more days.
     
    alex09, Nov 3, 2009
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