ATH-AD700X sound weird

[zzknight]

I need some help

 

I've had a pair of ATH-AD700X for several months now and they always never lived up to the hype for me.

 

They just weren't that good, and sounded like a pair of earbuds. However, about a month ago I recently updated to the most recent windows 10 and when I put them on they sounded awesome.

 

I started messing around with the audio settings trying to see what had changed, but when I got back on the next day they went back to their normal garbage. 

 

My main theory lies in when I got the update it might have reset the audio settings back to default and then I fucked them up again. Thats why I've tried to put them back to default, but I'm probably missing something. I'm kinda at the point where I just want to factory reset my pc and see what happens.

 

Thanks for any help that you can give.

 

(I also had a pair corsair void pros before, the ad700x, but were too heavy for me so I returned them. I'm pretty sure I messed around with the audio settings back then too).

[EsaT]

Wintoys10 updates can change/break many things under the hood, so might have even gotten new update.

Or it might have force updated bad sound card drivers.

What sound card are you using?

[zzknight]

10 hours ago, EsaT said:

Wintoys10 updates can change/break many things under the hood, so might have even gotten new update.

Or it might have force updated bad sound card drivers.

What sound card are you using?

Well I have two things listed underneath the sound tab in device manager.

 

AMD High Definition Audio Device

Realtek Audio

 

(I don't know the specific model)

[EsaT]

That "something" High Definition Audio Device is graphics card's HDMI.

But that could only hijack all audio, so it won't affect this.

 

What motherboard you have?

[zzknight]

1 hour ago, EsaT said:

That "something" High Definition Audio Device is graphics card's HDMI.

But that could only hijack all audio, so it won't affect this.

 

What motherboard you have?

So I have a Inspiron Gaming Desktop 5675, it's a pre-built from dell so they have some unrecognizable motherboards, but it does have an "identifier" on the manual.

 

Motherboard Identifier: GUID-0FB72875-2CE1-490D-8E55-4083E488BE9E

 

I also think I may have found the sound card in the manual. It might be a Realtek ALC3861

 

Here's the link for the online manuals: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/inspiron-5675-gaming-desktop/manuals

 

Thanks for all the help.

[EsaT]

There seems to be actually very recently updated driver package for that, maybe that's for fixing something recently broken by Microsoft in Wintoys10 updates.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=rjxnf

 

You could check Realtek's driver version in Device Manager if it matches to that 6.0.1.8228

[zzknight]

4 hours ago, EsaT said:

There seems to be actually very recently updated driver package for that, maybe that's for fixing something recently broken by Microsoft in Wintoys10 updates.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=rjxnf

 

You could check Realtek's driver version in Device Manager if it matches to that 6.0.1.8228

Hallelujah updating the drivers worked. I tried updating them before, but I only checked using the windows auto-check. However, it wasn't that easy to update them lol. I spent a couple hours troubleshooting after I kept getting a 0001 error code, but I tried this application called DriverEasy and it actually updated the realtek drivers to an even more recent update. Anyways I really appreciated the assistance, thank you.