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    Sony vaio CW i5 **blu ray***sound issue

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by bluetsx05, Feb 17, 2010.

  1. bluetsx05

    bluetsx05 Newbie

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    Hello,

    I have recently purchased a sony cw with the i5 chip. I love it and have had it now for a little over a month.

    the question i have though is that when I play a blu ray movie the sound is so extremely low. I have tried moving the sound bar on the PC as well as on the corel dvd window to max but the sound is still horribly low. If i put in headphones the sound is loud as it should be.

    does anyone have a fix for this?

    thanks
     
    bluetsx05, Feb 17, 2010
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  2. geekybiker

    geekybiker Notebook Geek

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    The speakers are just really weak.
     
    geekybiker, Feb 18, 2010
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  3. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Close the video player --> then right click on the sound icon in the system tray --> click "Playback Devices" --> now double-click "Speaker/HP" --> click the "Enhancements" tab --> now uncheck "Disable all sound effects" and check the "Loudness Equalization" box and hit apply. You'll have to restart any program that produces sounds for that to have any effect. It should at least make it marginally louder. And some users have rolled back to the OEM Microsoft supplied HD Audio driver and they say it's louder, although I can't confirm that.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Feb 18, 2010
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  4. bluetsx05

    bluetsx05 Newbie

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    regular DVD's sound great and the sound is fine, its only when playing blu ray movies
     
    bluetsx05, Feb 18, 2010
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  5. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    If there's an option in the software, try setting the default setting to 2-Channel Stereo, then when you want to watch on the TV over HDMI, just change it back. In the ArcSoft suite this helps my blu-ray's a LOT. Also, I have an equalizer, but I don't know if the OEM software has this? It's all in the settings. The CW's speakers are unusually tinny, but they can be louder than the defaults through some tweaking.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Feb 18, 2010
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  6. SomeRandomDude

    SomeRandomDude Notebook Evangelist

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    Get decent speakers
     
    SomeRandomDude, Feb 18, 2010
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  7. bluetsx05

    bluetsx05 Newbie

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    changed the sound profile from CD quality to DVD quality, that seemed to help somewhat
     
    bluetsx05, Feb 18, 2010
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  8. Rodimus84

    Rodimus84 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Once I had done this my sound with bluray was perfect but i dont really care about sound
     
    Rodimus84, Feb 18, 2010
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