Sound problems with new Qosmio X505-Q890.

I've had my Qosmio now for almost 3 weeks. I immediately noticed a problem with the sound going up and down (louder and quieter) when playing songs (MP3s) and movies. On te Toshiba support forum, it says it is a sound "enhancement" feature of Win 7. The only remedy posted there was to disable all sound enhancements by right-clicking the speaker icon and disabling it. But when you do that, you lose all bass and end up with a horrifying flat sound.

So my question is there some way around this problem? Some way of disabling this sound "enhancement" feature without losing the sound quality? A driver, work around, something. Or is there another media player I can use to restore the sound quality manually?

You can see the information I've found about this so far at Qosmio X505-Q860/Issues/Sound goes up & down, in &... - Toshiba Laptop Forums .

This problem is driving me crazy. Any help or suggestions would be hugely appreciated. For $1,700, I shouldn't be having a "problem" like this.

T Bone

 

I've found the only way is to disable the enhancements. You can tweak the sound in your favorite player to get a bit better sound.

Sounds a heck of a lot better... I expected more out of this laptop in terms of sound.