Sound quality on my E series Sony Viao.

It stinks. I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 that I am replacing. I have so much more control with the volume and the quality is better all the way around.

I called Sony and changed a setting that allowed me to control volume but it never gets very loud, nor do I think very good. It has been changed to studio sound but still I have no control of the loudness.

I know it is a laptop and not a surround sound system but I usually use my computer for some background noise while I do other things and I can't with the way this is.

I am still under my 30 day return warranty and I would rather choose another system if I can't get it to work properly. I have the largest laptop screen which I purchased because of the screen size. But the sound is an important factor it turns out.

I am not savvy with computers. I want good quality sound on a good size screen for my laptop which is for personal use only and primarily a jpg reader for me for personal stuff.

Thank you for any thoughts on the sound (or the laptop).

Jm

 

There's no fault - the speakers on the E-Series are just poor, I'm afraid.

You can improve them slightly by doing this:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/6672008-post1894.html

But they're never going to sound all that good. The best 'fix' is just to bypass the laptop's speakers by either plugging in some earphones or a set of external speakers - which isn't ideal, I know.