Sigmatel sound chip

Sorry if I stepped on some tender ears, no offense meant. This is just MHO for music, game use is fine.

After three days of headphone use with my huge collection of high bit rate music, I remain positively bummed with the overall musical quality of the Sigmatel Audio implemented on the Dell 1705. Odd, this is the same company that provides the chip for the Apple Shuffles, but not the same one used in our 1705s.

There is a quality of the sound that gives me a headache after extended listening, nothing easy like high noise or distortion, more like lack of definition for a better term.

Does anyone know of an alternate driver for this chip?

The AC’97 CODECS on my old laptop was far more musical, more so than my IPod, which I gave away to my oldest.

Oh well, my old laptop would explode if you tried to run Oblivion on it. Hopefully there will be a true hardware solution out for the mini slots in the near future.

 

Its the nature of laptops. You don't get the best soundcard in the world. As far as I know, there isn't an alternative sound driver. You could buy an external soundcard such as Turtlebeach which costs about 20 bucks.

I use the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS for all of my music/dvds. It sucks that the E1705 doesn't have a PCMCIA slot.

SG

 

have you tried using the software audigy upgrade?, the eaqalizer makes a good bit of difference, and its only 20 bucks

 

One Quesion I have I updated my Sound When I reformatted last time and I keep getting this Install new hardware when I boot up:

Modem device on High Definition Audio Bus

WTF is that in reference to? Do you know how to resolve this issue?

 

Have you installed your Modem drivers for dial up? (located under Communication) I know it sounds like it is an audio problem, but i think that is talking about your modem driver.