Asus K56CB surround and sound quality.

Hey,

I´ve bought a K56CB and it has two things that are annoying me. The Touchpad (i´ll start another topic about this) and the sound.

In mine opinion, the sound is a lot flat. It has no lows (on a laptop is is understandable) but has no highs too. The sound is a lot "stuffy". Usually on these small speakers the hard part is to get lows but not highs. I´m really dissapointed.

I have a Toshiba a200 with a few years old which has a much better sound. It´s more natural and more "crystal" sound.

I´ve already tried to push the highs on the equalizer and it improves it but no close to what i whish it were.

Besides that, it seems the surround sound is always enabled. Maybe some people like the effect but i hate it. It seems it "enters" on my ears. Even yesterday, i was talking on msn and after a while to be listening that sound when someone talked to me, it started to giving me a headhache.

Theres any way of improve the sound quality and disable the surround effect? Concerning to surround i have all related settings disabled on realtek control panel.

Thanks

 

Assuming the surround effect is really not just the way it sounds, you could try uninstalling the Realtek drivers and use the Windows default.

I can't say what extra features the Realtek drivers offer, if any, so it doesn't seem like you're losing anything. In fact, for me the Realtek drivers just disabled the option to have separate volume for headphones mode, which worked with stock Win8 drivers.