X870E Hero Realtek Equalizer

[Doomb0t]

I recently bought an X870E Hero motherboard and it's working great. I've upgraded from a Crosshair VIII Hero (Wifi), which had Sonic Studio 3. The X870E Realtek Audio sounds relatively flat and I don't see any equalizer options in the Realtek Audio Console:

I understand that Sonic Studio 3 was discontinued for X870 motherboards, but the lack of equalizer on a 700$ motherboard seems baffling. Is there anything I can do to restore equalizer for the X870E Hero?

[Adiemus]

I have the same issue. Went from a Crosshair X470 to the Crosshair X870E and boom, no equalizer for my headphones anymore!

I have speakers on Digital Output (optical) and headphones (3,5mm). On the old motherboard I had equalizer only for 3.5mm, now it's reversed and I really need the equalizer for my headphones.

Why do we even need to ask this? Why don't all audio devices have their own equalizers?

[josephrickards1]

Had the same issue ended up using a third-party EQ app someone at Liverpool Publicity Experts recommended, since the Realtek console was a letdown.

[frampt]

Same issue here. I noticed that there is dolby drivers for the motherboard, but the dolby access app wasn't installed automatically. So I downloaded the app and it recognized the oem driver. However, there's a bug, only the generic EQ works. The other presets like auto, movie and music don't work. Asus must fix this or give us a proper EQ.

[Adiemus]

I found a solution from 2019 that worked for me very well. Link to Asus forum post: No equalizer settings using SPDIF on Crosshair VII... - Republic of Gamers Forum - 803495

It looks complicated at first but it's pretty easy to configure. I use the Peace UI with more settings, you chose for which device the equalizer should work, for me only for 3.5mm headphones BUT they are shown as "Speakers, Realtek USB Audio", you may need to try different devices until you find the correct one. You can save your equalizer and it will appear in the list at the bottom left, you right click it to make it always active.

Online I've read if you are using an equalizer, you should lower the pre-amp volume (I have mine at -10), otherwise I experienced the rest of music getting pretty quiet when my bass boost kicked in and normal volume again after the bass was done playing and I don't have to explain how unpleasant a changing volume sounds

To make it quietly start with windows, you have to put the Peace-shortcut into the autostart folder and in Peace settings in the tab "Windows system tray" I set it to start minimized.