windows 8 audio quality or why does windows 8 sound like shit?
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AstralExistence AstralExistence https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=265049
- KVRAF
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- 2273 posts since 19 Sep, 2011
i cant figure this out this shit is completely degrading my audio. anybody know how to fix it.
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- KVRAF
- 1906 posts since 15 Oct, 2008 from Germany
No issues here
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- KVRAF
- 15515 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
You probably have to go back to 7. The problem is that the version number is not prime, and it's particularly bad since it's a power of 2. This allows an excessive number of even harmonics through in your final sound. Windows 3 sounded good, and then came Win95/Win98 (windows 4) which sounded like shit, XP(windows 5) which restored harmonic balance and is still the favorite of a lot of people, then Vista(windows 6) which was utter crap, then, finally, Windows 7. Windows 8 and the two versions after that are just not going to work, but at least 9 and 10 won't sound as bad as 8. Hopefully Microsoft will catch on and fix the problem by Windows 16 which is not only a power of 2, but a power of 4 as well, my god that's going to sound like utter shit.AstralExistence wrote:i cant figure this out this shit is completely degrading my audio. anybody know how to fix it.
- KVRAF
- 8406 posts since 2 Aug, 2005 from Guitar Land, USA
You could check whether any Microsoft effects are on, I'm on Win7 and they were off by default, I haven't tried them. Look in control panel sounds somewhere, also double check playback settings in there, you can choose sample rate stuff, but I don't think they'd ship it all bitcrushed.
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- KVRAF
- 1750 posts since 30 Jul, 2007
+1ghettosynth wrote:
You probably have to go back to 7. The problem is that the version number is not prime, and it's particularly bad since it's a power of 2. This allows an excessive number of even harmonics through in your final sound. Windows 3 sounded good, and then came Win95/Win98 (windows 4) which sounded like shit, XP(windows 5) which restored harmonic balance and is still the favorite of a lot of people, then Vista(windows 6) which was utter crap, then, finally, Windows 7. Windows 8 and the two versions after that are just not going to work, but at least 9 and 10 won't sound as bad as 8. Hopefully Microsoft will catch on and fix the problem by Windows 16 which is not only a power of 2, but a power of 4 as well, my god that's going to sound like utter shit.
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- 2392 posts since 29 Jun, 2005 from La La Land
Uhm, old news. Any electronic musician worth his salt knows that already. Sheesh!ghettosynth wrote:You probably have to go back to 7. The problem is that the version number is not prime, and it's particularly bad since it's a power of 2. This allows an excessive number of even harmonics through in your final sound. Windows 3 sounded good, and then came Win95/Win98 (windows 4) which sounded like shit, XP(windows 5) which restored harmonic balance and is still the favorite of a lot of people, then Vista(windows 6) which was utter crap, then, finally, Windows 7. Windows 8 and the two versions after that are just not going to work, but at least 9 and 10 won't sound as bad as 8. Hopefully Microsoft will catch on and fix the problem by Windows 16 which is not only a power of 2, but a power of 4 as well, my god that's going to sound like utter shit.
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- KVRAF
- 3477 posts since 27 Dec, 2002 from North East England
My money is on this. I'm pretty sure mine came with all that stuff turned off by default though. Audio via ASIO should sound exactly the same regardless though because your ASIO driver bypasses the Windows sound mixer entirely. Bit-perfect audio piped directly to the DAC. If even output through ASIO sounds different, you can be assured it's all in your head.RunBeerRun wrote:You could check whether any Microsoft effects are on, I'm on Win7 and they were off by default, I haven't tried them. Look in control panel sounds somewhere, also double check playback settings in there, you can choose sample rate stuff, but I don't think they'd ship it all bitcrushed.
- KVRAF
- 2912 posts since 13 Apr, 2008 from Charleston, SC
And it is 2014...also only cleanly dividable by 2. Any other even number creates a fraction and that leads to fragmented sound. Had 2014 been divisible by 8 it would result in a very rich clean sound. In 2016, expect Windows 8 to have the purist sound because not only is 2016 cleanly divided by 2, 4, 8, 16, and 24... it is also clearly a 32-bit floating point year by a factor of 63...the largest factor ever in the history of mankind. It may sound so good that even the most discerning ear will not be able to distinguish how good and clear it really will be.vata44 wrote:+1ghettosynth wrote:
You probably have to go back to 7. The problem is that the version number is not prime, and it's particularly bad since it's a power of 2. This allows an excessive number of even harmonics through in your final sound. Windows 3 sounded good, and then came Win95/Win98 (windows 4) which sounded like shit, XP(windows 5) which restored harmonic balance and is still the favorite of a lot of people, then Vista(windows 6) which was utter crap, then, finally, Windows 7. Windows 8 and the two versions after that are just not going to work, but at least 9 and 10 won't sound as bad as 8. Hopefully Microsoft will catch on and fix the problem by Windows 16 which is not only a power of 2, but a power of 4 as well, my god that's going to sound like utter shit.
- KVRian
- 966 posts since 16 Feb, 2010
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- 6895 posts since 9 Mar, 2003 from the bridge of sighs
he's right , see ;ghettosynth wrote:You probably have to go back to 7. The problem is that the version number is not prime, and it's particularly bad since it's a power of 2. This allows an excessive number of even harmonics through in your final sound. Windows 3 sounded good, and then came Win95/Win98 (windows 4) which sounded like shit, XP(windows 5) which restored harmonic balance and is still the favorite of a lot of people, then Vista(windows 6) which was utter crap, then, finally, Windows 7. Windows 8 and the two versions after that are just not going to work, but at least 9 and 10 won't sound as bad as 8. Hopefully Microsoft will catch on and fix the problem by Windows 16 which is not only a power of 2, but a power of 4 as well, my god that's going to sound like utter shit.AstralExistence wrote:i cant figure this out this shit is completely degrading my audio. anybody know how to fix it.
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AstralExistence AstralExistence https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=265049
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2273 posts since 19 Sep, 2011
you guys laugh but though rare, this is a known problem with windows 8.
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- KVRAF
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
Audio sounds much better on XP.AstralExistence wrote:you guys laugh but though rare, this is a known problem with windows 8.
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AstralExistence AstralExistence https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=265049
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2273 posts since 19 Sep, 2011
not sure what i did but its fixed now.