Why does dts audio control panel sound harsh

#Why does dts audio control panel sound harsh install#
#Why does dts audio control panel sound harsh drivers#
#Why does dts audio control panel sound harsh driver#

Repeating the steps above and not opening DTS control panel got my machine to revert back to the desired behavior (no DTS enhancements at all). After opening it for the first time, the DTS enhancements came back after every restart for me.

UPDATE: One important thing I forgot to mention is: *Make sure you don't open the DTS control panel after these steps.*Д«efore I opened the DTS control panel, I could hear that the enhancements were off all the time, including after restarts. Hope this can help all those ears suffering from DTS 'enhancements' out there.

#Why does dts audio control panel sound harsh drivers#

Congrats! You're done!).ДҐ) Now just wait for Windows to reacquire the audio drivers from Windows Update, and you're done! If you're feeling impatient, you can try triggering an update check manually from settings or from device manager. If this is not the case, you might want to try again from step 3 if you can still hear the DTS enhancements (if you can't, then that means step 5 has already been completed. Intel Smart Audio should not be listed as one of your audio playback/recording devices, and Realtek I2S audio should no longer be visible under device manager. If this happens to you too, feel free to just close it.Д¤) If you didn't wait too long between restarts, at this point your audio should *not* be working. For me, the installation window kept popping up after restarts indefinitely after these steps.

There will be another restart prompt afterwards. Allow it to restart, and it will continue the installation when you log back in.

It will first attempt to uninstall your existing drivers and then prompt for restart.

#Why does dts audio control panel sound harsh install#

If not, install them.Дў) Download the Dell drivers from here. I'm not sure if I just lucked out or if it's completely reproducible ( I really don't want to risk my DTS-free audio by trying it again UPDATE: just tested it again and luckily it seems to be reproducible, at least on my machine), but feel free to give these steps a try and let me know how it goes:ДЎ) Ensure you have Realtek I2S audio drivers from HP installed. Installing the Dell drivers, and then waiting for Windows to reacquire the Realtek I2S drivers from Windows Update is what I believe solved the issue for me (I'm not sure why, but it might have something to do with the newer version of Intel Smart Audio included in the Dell drivers). The Dell drivers install correctly, but afterwards, Windows would no longer recognize my Realtek I2S audio device. The Lenovo and Asus drivers worked on my machine, but had the same issue as the HP drivers. I ended up finding a few devices that used Realtek I2S, including tablets from Dell, Lenovo, and Asus. I was about to give up, but I figured as a last resort, I'd try some other manufacturers' drivers for Realtek I2S audio.

#Why does dts audio control panel sound harsh driver#

I went through some of the same debugging steps as others in this thread, including hunting down every non-essential file in the driver specs and deleting them, but nothing worked. I finally fixed this issue for good today on my machine (HP Elite x2 1011 with Win10 64 bit), almost by accident, and I made an account here just to document my rather convoluted workaround.