I created my account to report and follow-up on this issue.
I just bought my ASUS ROG GL522JX and everything is absolutely wonderful, except the sound. It sounds like it's coming from the bottom of a barrel, very buzzy like its gain would be +20db, and in the same time very low volume.
Stuff I've tried so far in the last week struggling with this thing.
- Compared to my old 4 y'o ASUS K52J laptop, and the old brick makes a wonderful sound, crystal clear and loud balanced sound.
- If played with the L/R balance volumes, the left speaker sounds low, no bass and relatively high pitched, while the right one is also low volume, but high bass and high pitched...
- Disabling Enhancements in device properties
- Tried ICESound, slight improvement but sound still terrible. Volume even lower on most setups.
- Tried SmartAudio, slight improvement but sound still terrible.
- Tried SRS AudioSandbox, slight improvement but sound still terrible
- Tried ViPER4Windows, slight improvement but sound still terrible. Volume even lower on most setups.
- Tried Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, each of them with what I mentioned above and:
- The last Conexant drivers found on ASUS Support and on producer page - V8.66.3.0
- 5 drivers back, tried each of them on each Windows version
And a lot other things hinted on other forums which made no difference so far.
I would appreciate any kind of guidance with this sound issue. If necessary I can provide a sample and comparison.
I'd really like to keep this laptop.
Thanks.