[Perform-Talk] major audio issues with windows ten via bootcamp on my MacBook pro... Driver issue?

[Joseph Bundy]

This is a dumb question probably, but what is bootcamp?

On 9/28/18, Cameron Strife via Perform-talk <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone. I have been doing forum searches and reading articles etc
> and can't figure out what's going on here. If anybody has any tips,
> please let me know! Thanks.
>
> I recently sold my two older macs and bought a new 2018 MacBook pro
> with ssd, six core processor, and 16 gigs of ram.
>
> I do some things on the mac side and some on the windows side. I had
> been using windows ten on my old iMac. I upgraded from my windows
> seven install on that machine and did not have the issues I am about
> to lay out here...
>
> I ended up buying a windows ten license and doing a clean install,
> setting up everything from scratch. I downloaded the latest version of
> bootcamp the day I did the windows ten install.
>
> With any sort of audio playback whether it be audio files through a
> media player, screen reader output, audio streaming from a web site,
> or good old system sounds, I can hear a noise gate even at low
> volumes. This results in the first syllable of every word being cut
> off with jaws or NVDA for example when navigating around or typing
> etc. Also, everything is squashed. The amount of compression is un
> freaking bearable! The odd thing is that with my old machine running
> windows ten via the upgrade, I had no issues with audio playback. It
> was fine. This... This is just a mess. I don't know what group of
> people came to the conclusion that these features/settings were good
> for anything under any circumstances.
>
> I have music I am very familiar with and I use a nice set of Marintse
> headphones. I know what they sound like normally and they do not sound
> like this.
>
> I am aware of the windows ten audio enhancement features that are
> turned on by default. I've read all about that and know how to turn it
> off. However, when I look in the properties dialogue box, I do not
> have a tab called enhancements for the on board headphones or
> speakers. According to everything I've read, this is where I need to
> be to turn this garbage off but it's simply not here. I can't seem to
> find a way to disable them via the command prompt or the registry
> either. I do have a tab called spacial sound but even if it's off, it
> makes no difference.
>
> The audio on my mac OS partition is fine an I do not have these issues
> with my focusrite saffire pro 40.
>
> This leads me to believe that it may be a driver issue with this
> version of bootcamp... If the drivers are the culprit however, why can
> I not find a single reference to this missing tab?
>
> And yes, I did uninstall the Apple headphones and speaker drivers. I
> thought that when windows ten restarts, it may grab a generic driver
> and that would solve the issue. No luck though! When I went back into
> sound and then device manager, both were back!
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cameron.
>
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