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    Distorted Audio, Onkyo Speakers...

    Discussion in 'Sager/Clevo Reviews & Owners' Lounges' started by FesterSilently, Apr 28, 2015.

  1. FesterSilently

    FesterSilently Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey, y'all!

    (And, as always - apologies if this has been addressed already, but my forum search turned up nothing.)
    (Also, apologies if this isn't the appropriate forum.)

    Just got my lovely NP9772 (23 April 2015) and it is exactly as ferocious and speedy as I'd imagined it to be.

    However.

    After having installed the Realtek audio drivers, and the additional Creative X-Fi software...everything (and I mean *everything*: music, movies, games, speech, system sounds) sounds distorted, as if the volume were turned up way too high. But this happens at *every* volume level, which (I assume) is *not* a feature of the fine Onkyo speakers. [​IMG]

    Is there some setting I've failed to enable/disable? Software or otherwise?

    Of course I *know* no built-in speakers are going to sound *amazing*, but I'm sure they're not supposed to sound the way they do now.

    Any ideas/suggestions?
     
    FesterSilently, Apr 28, 2015
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Have you gone through the creative software and tried enabling/disabling the effects to see if it's a specific one causing the issue?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 30, 2015
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    Well, I've fiddled with the X-Fi software, but I also uninstalled it entirely, to see if *it* was the culprit, but...no joy - same slightly muddy sound.

    Again - it's not 100% unlistenable, but...it is grating after a while; music doesn't sound accurate and once in a while I'll miss dialogue in a game/movie because of the muddiness.
     
    FesterSilently, May 3, 2015
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