Window 10 Enable audio enhancements

[Jonnybmac]

Do people leave this on or off? I've found a reddit page that says pureists should have it off. On a 2.1 system, I feel the sub does catch some of the notes taken from the two speakers but it takes too much and guitars often feel quite. I feel somewhere between the two would be a happy medium.

What do people recommend?

Sound > Speaker Properties > Advanced > Signal Enhancements > Enable audio enhancements

Whilst I'm here

I'm also currently using optical on my PC; should I change to coaxial since it's mostly music that will be played.

 

[JasonM]

Turn any enhancement stuff off. Then set your speakers up by positioning them, stands, isolation foam etc.

The only enhancement that's possibly useful is automatic volume adjustment that will help quite parts of films or even some music tracks.

Optical should be better then coaxial as it prevents ground loop issue from PC to amplifier.

 

[Jonnybmac]

Turn any enhancement stuff off. Then set your speakers up by positioning them, stands, isolation foam etc.

The only enhancement that's possibly useful is automatic volume adjustment that will help quite parts of films or even some music tracks.

Optical should be better then coaxial as it prevents ground loop issue from PC to amplifier.

Thanks. I did think that made sense.

I thought optical was better but I read it can't handle high bandwidth.

I'm clueless with audio lol

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

My opinion
Doesn't matter what purists say
Do what sounds best to your ears you're the one
Listening to it after all not the purists
Everyone has different hearing
But well positioned speakers helps
As do decent quality speakers

 

[The_Arbiter]

Optical is fine for 2.1. wiki has this kind of thing listed so you can idea of what you need.

With the windows enhancements, i leave them off. You can set the audio frequency, not sure if that applies to digital or what real difference it makes. On headphones i noticed windows surround enhancement to be not very good with a stereo dac, and pointless with a surround dac.

I just let the dedicated hardware do its thing, it's always best with even low end dedicated hardware.