Volume Swings During Songs with Beats Audio Enabled?

[luqman-khalifa]

Thank you thank you thank you 1000000000000000+. at this point i had tried so many drivers, enhancement settings even reg. file changes and this is the first solution to actually work. i am so glad that god awful annoying beats crap is finally turned off.

the only problem i can see now is when im wanting to use the laptop speakers they sound like crap, but i can always change the driver when need be i guess, so no biggie. the main annoyance was when i had my envy15 plugged in to my amp (which is most of the time) then it was just unbearable, hearing the audio go up and down, and sound so manipulated. the problem wasnt that bad when i had earphones plugged in, but when i had my technics amp in and that sound was coming from my mach 9 wharfdales then the problem was 10x amplified and the problem really became a nuance.

[StankNasty]

I'm still using the 59154 beta driver, which of course didn't fix the problem.  This HP laptop is a piece of **bleep** until they fix the audio issue.  Are there any newer drivers?  I can't even watch movies on this thing.  It's a paperweight.

[SpyroK]

My friend, I feel your pain! Try to use an earlier solution here that disables the Beats Audio effects only. I have used it and can assure you that I am not going back to any driver until a legit solution is found. Our laptops are not paperweights by far, I hope HP finds a solution soon - please sign the petition so it can go forward!

[clartin]

I purchased a (Windows 😎 Envy m6-1178sa with Beats Audio a couple of weeks ago. Having been frustrated by volume fluctuations I stumbled across this forum.

It's pretty alarming that several months, laptop models and a whole OS later HP still haven't resolved it. It's bordering on shambolic.

[Lobsters]

I'm very happy with the results I obtained by swapping the Beats driver for the default windows high definition audio driver.  In Win 8, my CPU usage directly related to audio went down from an avg of 8-10 percent to between .5 and 1 percent.  When watching movies or listening to music on battery this is absolutely significant.

In my opinion all audio "enhancements" of pre-recorded material are garbage to begin with.  You can seemingly disable all of it in the Beats control program, but it still messes with the volume level and eats up CPU time. 

[chryslerE]

It screws up speakers. And anyway, isn't Beats a sellpoint for HP?

Please sign the petition here to make HP fix this horrible issue:
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/hewlett-packard-fix-volume-swings-on-envy-and-pavillon-comput...

[deftonehone]

Guys. HP are using Beats Audio as a selling point. Unfortuantly they have supplid most of there range of laptops from 2011+ with TERRIBLE sound cards. You will never utilise the full potential of Beats Audio with the sound cards they have installed in all of there recent models. Beats Audio is a powerful audio software which you would associate with a very expensive sound set up with has the balls to do it. The only solution here is the get rid of beats audio and simply use your standard sound cards settings.

Once you have got rid of beats audio simply buy a cheap pair of computer speakers with Amplifiers built into them preferably ones with BASS control, headphone socket and external speaker socket. Something like these speakers (which i bought for around £10 off ebay, are actually quite awesome.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Logitech-PC-Speaker-M-N-S-02648-PC-Lautsprecher-Stuck-TOP-Qualtiat-/170919...

[Achristie18]

Hey guy if u want to know how to fix the swing proplem read this:

1. Go to beats audio and click on advanced settings then click on windows sound properties.

2. Click on speaker and headphones and press configure.

3. press next and tick the box that says front left and right if hasen't been ticked already and click finish.

4. next click Speakers and Headphones properties and click on advanced, under it says default  format put it to

24 bit, 192000 Hz (Studio Quality) and click apply.

5. Then press ok and now the swing should be gonna.

[chryslerE]

Tried, doesn't work, swings are still there.

[HelPme2299]

Just read the ENTIRE thread.  It seems like when the 6.10.6418.0 driver was released a bunch of people were cheering that it fixed the problem, but the last few pages of posts seem to indicate that it did NOT fix the leveling problem.

Has the 6.10.6418.0 driver fixed the leveling problem?  Or has it just made the leveling less obvious?

I've read about the workaround from the notebook reviews forum, which seems to disable the beats audio entirely.  Does this workaround work at disabling the leveling?  And how do the speakers sound without the beats audio (do they sound horrible, or just like your typical average laptop speakers?)

Thanks.