I recieved my 9750 the other day, and it is a beautiful machine. It runs amazingly well, looks beautiful, and is everything I ever needed in a laptop.
I have only experienced one piece of wierdness with it thus far. When I'm playing music throught the laptop speakers, everything sounds fine. The music is full with a good low end (for an itty bitty subwoofer). However, when I plug in headphones, it's as if the whole bottom end drops out. The bass is all but non-existent. Even the lead vocals on most songs are quieter than normal. The left and right channels (like backup singers) are very loud and clear.
To me it seems like it's setup to run some type of surround sound when I have the headphones jack in use. So I checked the speaker setup both in windows, and in the Realtek manager. They both said just two speaker setup, which should work. I changed them both to headphones anyway just to see if that solved the problem; It didn't. I tried changing the equalizer in the Realtek and boosting the bass. That helped a little, but no where close to what it should be. My 4780 had the same integrated sound and it was a lot different than this.
I also downloaded the newest drivers from Realtek and tried them out. I get the same outcome.
If anyone could help me out on this little annoyance this machine I would sincerely appreciate it.
Thanks
EDIT: I forgot to add that I also made sure the interface configuration was not set up for surround, and that there is only one jack for audio output.
I have only experienced one piece of wierdness with it thus far. When I'm playing music throught the laptop speakers, everything sounds fine. The music is full with a good low end (for an itty bitty subwoofer). However, when I plug in headphones, it's as if the whole bottom end drops out. The bass is all but non-existent. Even the lead vocals on most songs are quieter than normal. The left and right channels (like backup singers) are very loud and clear.
To me it seems like it's setup to run some type of surround sound when I have the headphones jack in use. So I checked the speaker setup both in windows, and in the Realtek manager. They both said just two speaker setup, which should work. I changed them both to headphones anyway just to see if that solved the problem; It didn't. I tried changing the equalizer in the Realtek and boosting the bass. That helped a little, but no where close to what it should be. My 4780 had the same integrated sound and it was a lot different than this.
I also downloaded the newest drivers from Realtek and tried them out. I get the same outcome.
If anyone could help me out on this little annoyance this machine I would sincerely appreciate it.
Thanks
EDIT: I forgot to add that I also made sure the interface configuration was not set up for surround, and that there is only one jack for audio output.
Getting great sound quality and good bass out of these machines is possible and easy, as I discovered recently. This would be for when you're hooking up to a stereo system.
This works well: -
Hopefully (like me) at this point you are now hearing some deep rich bass coming out from you stereo speakers. Also, if you have a 'loudness' control on your stereo, use this too if you're like me and like lot's of bass!
I thought it was kinda crappy to have such bad sound coming out of these rather expensive laptops. Turns out they do have good sound output, you just have to set it up right.
That's odd, using the set up I described (using the rear speaker output), the sound quality really is very good! Maybe not 'studio' quality, but all the same a very good sound quality with nice bass and no hiss. Granted, plugging my stereo into the 'head phone' output of these (9750) laptops does produce a sound quality somewhat akin to listening to music over a telephone!
Really hope it works for someone else too! Otherwise I must have a 'freak' 9750!!
Great! Good to hear it works for you too. I also had to adjust the settings to get better bass, using the Realtek EQ settings.
Tip for other people using Win XP Pro, when using the 'rear speaker' output into your stereo, but want to have no sound from your laptop speakers; open up the regular volume control (in windows) and turn down the 'Front Speaker' volume slider (Use menu and options to enable it, if you don't see it) and leave 'Rear Speaker' up at about 85%. Adjust these settings as required, ie. when you are not using stereo system and want sound out of your laptop speakers (turn 'Front Speaker' up again, you can leave rear at 85% all the time).
Great to have the opportunity to share this gem of info through these forums, I've learn't so much through them and am happy I can contribute something back into the pool of knowledge.
