Terrible sound quality after doing a system restore

[dukethedj]

So I just finished with a system restore on my PC and there is absolutely no low end and it sounds like I am listening to some overly compressed mp3s. Sound also seems to be leaning toward the right even though I have them both equal. It was fine yesterday, but after doing a system restore to a backup from yesterday, it sounds terrible. I have a Xonar DGX and Siberia v3's and the settings are exactly the same. I reinstalled the xonar drivers, tried 3rd party ones, and tried different sound devices. Is there anyway to fix this? I looked around online and found that people said to turn off "enhancements" in the advanced tab but I don't have that option.

[Sir Asvald]

6 minutes ago, dukethedj said:

So I just finished with a system restore on my PC and there is absolutely no low end and it sounds like I am listening to some overly compressed mp3s. Sound also seems to be leaning toward the right even though I have them both equal. It was fine yesterday, but after doing a system restore to a backup from yesterday, it sounds terrible. I have a Xonar DGX and Siberia v3's and the settings are exactly the same. I reinstalled the xonar drivers, tried 3rd party ones, and tried different sound devices. Is there anyway to fix this? I looked around online and found that people said to turn off "enhancements" in the advanced tab but I don't have that option.

Install latest drivers?

[dukethedj]

Just now, Abdul201588 said:

Install latest drivers?

I did do that, both first and 3rd party versions.

[Factorvsky]

7 minutes ago, dukethedj said:

So I just finished with a system restore on my PC and there is absolutely no low end and it sounds like I am listening to some overly compressed mp3s. Sound also seems to be leaning toward the right even though I have them both equal. It was fine yesterday, but after doing a system restore to a backup from yesterday, it sounds terrible. I have a Xonar DGX and Siberia v3's and the settings are exactly the same. I reinstalled the xonar drivers, tried 3rd party ones, and tried different sound devices. Is there anyway to fix this? I looked around online and found that people said to turn off "enhancements" in the advanced tab but I don't have that option.

Had the same issue, try pulling the plug out just a little bit and turning it. That's what fixed my issue

[pagani123]

try uninstalling the drivers then reinstalling them again maybe something got corupted 

[dukethedj]

Just now, mattbatc said:

Had the same issue, try pulling the plug out just a little bit and turning it. That's what fixed my issue

Nope. It seems to be software

[Enderman]

why would you do a system restore?

do a proper clean install and these issues wont happen

[Factorvsky]

Just now, dukethedj said:

Nope. It seems to be software

Try RealTek audio drivers

 

[dukethedj]

9 minutes ago, Enderman said:

why would you do a system restore?

do a proper clean install and these issues wont happen

I was restoring from my NAS and I really didn't want to go through downloading everything again

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, dukethedj said:

I was restoring from my NAS and I really didn't want to go through downloading everything

yeah well windows sucks at upgrading or restoring or repairing parts of the OS

it messes up often, which is why if you ever need to move to a new drive or anything like that, you should always do a clean install

 

it seems like the restore process also messed up in your case

there may be some strange way of fixing your sound issue but there is probably a lot more that is messed up that you dont know about

like, go to event viewer and look at all the errors that are probably there

most of the time a clean install is the only thing that will fix a screwed up OS

 

this is why you should take the time to do a proper clean install in the first place, and you save yourself the time of restoring or cloning or whatever it is that messed up the OS

[dukethedj]

10 minutes ago, Enderman said:

yeah well windows sucks at upgrading or restoring or repairing parts of the OS

it messes up often, which is why if you ever need to move to a new drive or anything like that, you should always do a clean install

 

it seems like the restore process also messed up in your case

there may be some strange way of fixing your sound issue but there is probably a lot more that is messed up that you dont know about

like, go to event viewer and look at all the errors that are probably there

most of the time a clean install is the only thing that will fix a screwed up OS

 

this is why you should take the time to do a proper clean install in the first place, and you save yourself the time of restoring or cloning or whatever it is that messed up the OS

I guess you are right, it also messed up winload.exe

But what should I be looking for in the event viewer?

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, dukethedj said:

I guess you are right, it also messed up winload.exe

But what should I be looking for in the event viewer?

event viewer just shows you all the logs and you can see the errors of stuff that goes wrong

sometimes you can fix them by googling the error and finding someone that has solved it

most of the time there are tens or hundreds of errors though, so clean install is the best option

[dukethedj]

22 hours ago, Enderman said:

event viewer just shows you all the logs and you can see the errors of stuff that goes wrong

sometimes you can fix them by googling the error and finding someone that has solved it

most of the time there are tens or hundreds of errors though, so clean install is the best option

 

So I did a clean install and I got stereo to work properly but its my headphones that are just doing something. I guess my phone had a massive bass boost enabled. I don't know how they could do this, though. I kept the volume and bass at a reasonable level, but I guess things just happen. Thanks for the help.