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No , its a common problem just google it and see what i mean. It goes back as far as 2007 its related to VISTA & Windows 7. Not a problem with windows XP.
Example
"Speaker Fill" checkbox, which is worse than the plague, effectively doing nothing but "simulating" surround - the rear speakers have a lot of frequency domains missing (they're mostly just treble and some faint presence) and they often feel delayed as well
Also read this quote
and more(which is especially true about Realtek's Speaker Fill option when compared to Creative's CMSS which does the same thing 5 times better).
and moreWhen I enable speaker fill, the rear speakers output sound at a pretty low level, but when you get up close to check them, it is clearly putting out distorted audio. The only way I can describe it is that the rear's sound like you are listening to low-bitrate audio from an Internet station, and seems to be concentrated at the high end of the freqency spectrum. I don't understand why it worked fine in XP x64, and it works ok in Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy as well. I don't even need to do anything special in Linux, I just adjust the individual channel levels to balance out the sound.. SO I'm not sure why it doesn't work that way on Windows; even still I am about to reinstall XP x64 today to verify it still works properly there.
See what i meanWhat solutions do you have when running Vista x64? I can't stand the fact that my brand new speakers sound distorted from the two rear ones.