"Different" speaker sound while running Windows/Bootcamp [Archive]

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Elbartow

Jul 26, 2010, 12:10 AM

Hey guys,

I just noticed that the sound of my 21.5" iMac speakers kinda changes notably when I´m using Windows (Bootcamp).

Compared to the sound while using Snow Leopard, it sound very thin, bass-less and... just strange. More like MacBook speakers, or just small speakers.

Another thing is that the headphone input doesn´t work on Windows.

Could these issues be related to audio drivers? I don´t know much about that sort of stuff... maybe you guys can help me, the sound is just terrible :(

pt0016

Jul 26, 2010, 03:23 AM

Wow, that happens to me as well, I thought it was just me, but I guess it's not... I have the 21.5" iMac as well.

I'm guessing audio drivers are not as good as the ones on OS X?

TMRaven

Jul 26, 2010, 07:38 AM

Did you go into the speaker preferences and configure them properly? I know when I put bootcamp on my iMac, the speakers while on windows were set to quad instead of only stereo, choosing stereo instead of quadro did help quite a bit. I also adjusted some other settings, but the sound still wasn't quite the same as on osx.

wrldwzrd89

Jul 26, 2010, 08:54 AM

Same issue here! Thanks for the tip TMRaven - I'll have to try that.