Quick overview:
Do you like to travel and watch a DVD on the plane, for example, or listen to your MP3 collection while working in your hotel room? Most notebooks are not equipped with high-quality loudspeakers and it's not really fun. In Vista, however, there are a few ways to improve the sound quality...[Sandro Villinger]
The new audio architecture in Windows Vista optimizes sound quality and surround sound enjoyment using various techniques. To achieve these options, you must proceed as follows:
- Click on
and select 
. Now click to switch to the category... - Click now on
. Then right-click on...
... and select
. - Now switch to the tab
. Here you can see various setting options such as...
We explain some of these technologies below: First of all, here are the "Virtual Surround", which simulates surround sound with just two loudspeakers on the notebook. It adapts the sound waves to the shape of the human head and simulates real headphones. The "Bass amplification and low frequency protection" ensures that the bass appears in the best possible quality and depth (despite the limited capabilities of the notebook speakers). The bass is shifted to a (slightly higher) frequency that can be handled by the small speakers. Although the bass is then no longer as deep, you can increase the volume further and rattling during bass-heavy passages is avoided. "Volume equalization" adjusts the volume for particularly quiet or loud passages so that they do not differ too much. We recommend that you experiment with all the options yourself by playing a piece of music and changing the options by clicking on 
test it out! At the end, all you have to do is 
and the new sound settings are active!
Yours, Sandro Villinger
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