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    Can Beats audio be disabled/uninstalled?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by SpinalTarp, Dec 22, 2012.

  1. SpinalTarp

    SpinalTarp Notebook Consultant

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    Or is it completely tied into the sound card of the laptop?
     
    SpinalTarp, Dec 22, 2012
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    It is tied to the sound driver, there are no generic IDT driver. If you want to get rid of it, just use windows default driver. (Uninstall IDT driver)

    If the machine is 5.1 (some envy iirc, then you must have the IDT driver from those to work), not sure about 2.1.
     
    baii, Dec 22, 2012
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    I remember last year i installed modded IDT driver from this thread and i lost BeatsAudio function.
     
    xAcid9, Dec 22, 2012
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    Actually there's a tick in the Beats panel: "Beats Audio" just untick it. Done

    Here:
    beatshit_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg
     
    Kirrr, Dec 25, 2012
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    What is it you don't like about the Beats Audio?
     
    govtdog, Dec 25, 2012
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    SpinalTarp Notebook Consultant

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    I actually don't have the machine yet, but from what I've read there's a big problem in which the Beats software will "auto level" a song. Meaning it will make the low parts louders, and the loud parts less loud.

    There's a 25 page thread about it on the HP support forums.

    Sounds pretty annoying. No pun intended.
     
    SpinalTarp, Dec 26, 2012
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    No problem here, in fact it sounded better compare to vanilla IDT without BeatsAudio.
     
    xAcid9, Dec 26, 2012
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    I have this problem on my Envy m6-1105dx with beats audio.


    what should I do?
     
    tbone8ty, Jan 13, 2013
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    Be warned that doing this will set your bass to -12 and HP tech support knows no way to stop it from doing this at random.
     
    Thearcy, Jan 14, 2013
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    It doesn't happen at random. The Beats Audio application sets the value.

    Not only is the bass set to the worse setting but the treble is also set to the maximum value of 4. This occurs whenever you uncheck the Beats Audio check box. There is a reset to zero button but it is not very useful since the settings are also set on every reboot. If you have unchecked the Beats Audio check box then it will set the bass to -12 and treble to 4 on every reboot.

    I've read somewhere that it is part of the Windows Logo Program to provide a disable enhancements option in Control Panel>Sounds. This option does not exist with IDT driver. Attempting to disable the Beats Audio enhancement results the application forcing you to use the worst possible sound settings available!

    There is a way to stop it. They have to fix the Beats Audio application and the IDT driver so that it does not wreck the sound settings when the user has unchecked the Beats Audio check box.
     
    bubbaganoush, Jan 15, 2013
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