Until now I found a fix, if you disabled the 'enhancements', each time you connected earphones, they would be re-enabled automatically causing the sound to degrade.įor anyone who has come here and looking for a way to permanently DISABLE the so-called 'enhancements', see below: The DTS 'enhancements' actually cause distortion and mess with the signal considerably.
Hi BinaryPill, It seems you were having the opposite problem to everyone else.
I'm assuming I don't need to post system specs as this is a software issue.Įdit: Fixed myself by rolling back the audio driver (in device manager) which seemed to reset it to its default settings set iTunes Preamp to -6dB) to lessen the compression. The best I can do is turn volume down on an application level (e.g. It's a minor annoyance sure, but something that should be easy isn't because of some stupid preinstalled software that seems unable to removed the usual way and I'm left with some terrible sounding audio. There is no apparent 'Enhancements' tab either which seems to come up on other troubleshooters to disable similar enhancements. In the 'speaker' properties, unchecking 'allow applications to take control of this device' doesn't change anything either. It didn't show up on the 'Uninstall or Change a Program' programs list either for reasons unknown. The checkbox however couldn't be unchecked for seemingly no reason.įine, just uninstall the program right? Cannot do that either. On a tab called 'Listening Experience' I noticed a checkbox labelled 'Audio Enhancements' so I tried to disable this.
Easy right?įirstly, I entered into the DTS Audio control panel (only accessible through the Windows 10 control panel). I figured this was due to a fairly well hidden audio 'enhancing' program called 'DTS Stereo Sound' so I wanted to disable this. When I decided to listen to some music on a new HP Notebook (Model 15-AC106TX, running Windows 10) with headphones, I noticed that there was some awful sounding additional dynamic range compression and some weird EQ applied to the music (presumably optimized for laptop speakers).