Hi everyone,
I have been the happy owner of a Cosmos IX since about two weeks. Works like a charm! Very happy with it all.
There has been something that keeps on bugging me though: the sound. I am not exactly expecting a lot from tiny speakers in a case, but the poor quality and output makes me question if that's just poor hardware or something else is going on. For info, I am a sound engineer and so have run quite a lot of tests on it, discovering early on that the speakers won't reproduce anything below 200Hz which makes for a very bright sounding system with no bass whatsoever. Anyone has had similar experiences?
Now, the laptop came with SoundBlaster Cinema 6. I installed Windows 10 as soon as I got the laptop and, thinking I was doing the right thing, I installed every driver provided by PCS with the CD. Soundblaster was installed (app included), and failed to recognizes the laptop's speaker and so was unusable. I decided to uninstall it (right click, uninstall app) and uninstalled all audio drivers (including realtek ones) and tried the whole process again, just in case something went wrong.
Upon reinstalling SoundBlaster Cinema, the install goes ahead successfully but won't install the app anymore. I tried several times. I even deleted the app folder in my program files and after attempting the install again, a folder is created for it but is left empty. I have contacted PCS which gave me a different installer, same issue. Next conversation I had with them, no-one was able to help me getting that app back into the system or telling me if something was wrong with my hardware.
I decided to let it go anduse mostly my headphones and my own set of speakers instead of the built-in ones because it is just impossible to listen to. Each and every one of my device does sound full which makes me feel like drivers are probably ok.
Tonight though, upon watching a movie I realized the headphone output loudness is quite poor. I wanted to check some stuffs in the audio enhancements tab in the sound settings, but that tab isn't there! This instantly makes me feel like there might be something wrong with my audio setup as the tab should be there. It's as though Soundblaster cinema 6 is installed and has overidden the default enhancement tab offered by Windows 10, whilst impossible to take control of because the actual app wasn't installed.
What is going on?
I have been the happy owner of a Cosmos IX since about two weeks. Works like a charm! Very happy with it all.
There has been something that keeps on bugging me though: the sound. I am not exactly expecting a lot from tiny speakers in a case, but the poor quality and output makes me question if that's just poor hardware or something else is going on. For info, I am a sound engineer and so have run quite a lot of tests on it, discovering early on that the speakers won't reproduce anything below 200Hz which makes for a very bright sounding system with no bass whatsoever. Anyone has had similar experiences?
Now, the laptop came with SoundBlaster Cinema 6. I installed Windows 10 as soon as I got the laptop and, thinking I was doing the right thing, I installed every driver provided by PCS with the CD. Soundblaster was installed (app included), and failed to recognizes the laptop's speaker and so was unusable. I decided to uninstall it (right click, uninstall app) and uninstalled all audio drivers (including realtek ones) and tried the whole process again, just in case something went wrong.
Upon reinstalling SoundBlaster Cinema, the install goes ahead successfully but won't install the app anymore. I tried several times. I even deleted the app folder in my program files and after attempting the install again, a folder is created for it but is left empty. I have contacted PCS which gave me a different installer, same issue. Next conversation I had with them, no-one was able to help me getting that app back into the system or telling me if something was wrong with my hardware.
I decided to let it go anduse mostly my headphones and my own set of speakers instead of the built-in ones because it is just impossible to listen to. Each and every one of my device does sound full which makes me feel like drivers are probably ok.
Tonight though, upon watching a movie I realized the headphone output loudness is quite poor. I wanted to check some stuffs in the audio enhancements tab in the sound settings, but that tab isn't there! This instantly makes me feel like there might be something wrong with my audio setup as the tab should be there. It's as though Soundblaster cinema 6 is installed and has overidden the default enhancement tab offered by Windows 10, whilst impossible to take control of because the actual app wasn't installed.
What is going on?