How do you make the sound on the P150HM/8150 work correctly?

I bought a P150HM from Malibal, and have the THX TruStudio Pro and Realtek HD Audio Manager installed, and I usually listen to sound through my headphones. The thing is, when I listen via headphones, half the sound is through one bud, half through the other. I sometimes can only use 1 headphone so normally I'd prefer to have all/most of the sounds evenly through the headphones so I could hear everything, but most NPC voices in games come through only one headphone while other sound effects through the other, so it's just uncomfortable!

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

 

Are you saying you want to disable stereo sound and go with mono sound? I'm not sure if that's possible through realtek, but you can always buy an external adapter to do that. It'll make for pretty low quality sound though as they just combine both channels into one. You're honestly better looking for something like a mono USB headset.

 

Honestly I'm not really sure! with my old laptop, which didn't have any extra audio options, the sound was even through my headphones.. Now, my left headphone gets certain sounds like gunshots(in FPS games) and the right headphone gets the NPC voices. Since I usually only use the left bud(I play in the living room and people get annoyed if I can't hear them lol) I can't hear what any NPC's are saying. I wasn't sure if there was just a setting to make the headphones evened out or something.. Obviously not used to settings other than just volume for speakers/line in/line out lol

 

From what it sounds like, you're just experiencing stereo sound in those games. A lot of games are designed to output sound to your left or right ear specifically to make for better immersion (e.g, a gun fires to your left, you only hear the sound in that ear). For a great example of it, check out this video (with headphones on):

Virtual Barber Shop (Audio...use headphones, close ur eyes) - YouTube

Mono sound turns those two channels (or more commonly takes a source that only outputs one channel) and distributes it in one stream.

I'm not sure if it's possible to go to a mono stream, but it's worth fiddling with the audio settings if you're interested.

 

To me it sounds like (sic) he's not complaining about stereo, but that he's not getting voices etc. centrally placed in his listening "landscape". He should be able to get voices and gunshots centrally in his sound localization, even with stereo, if he is standing looking straight at the sound source.
I'ts probably a setting in the software - maybe 5.1 is turned on or something, and as he don't have a 5.1 setup when using headphones (and no center channel speaker, obviously), he get's poor localization of sounds.
Speaking from own experience, it could also be something simple like the headphone mini jack plug is not pushed all the way in, or has poor contact.

 

Had some funny issues with that as well, I needed to turn of 5.1/7.1 for headphone usage.

 

Ahh alright I'll just change some of the settings again and see if 5.1/7.1 is on! Seems like it's worked for some people

Edit: after I got home from work I changed from 5.1 to stereo, much better! Thanks guys!