...Once the update is complete you will be able to edit the bass/treble settings via the sound control panel...
Neat... Would you post a screenshot of these settings?
Surface 2 Speaker/Sound Problems
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I just purchased two new Surface 2's and I am noticing a significant reduction in volume from the speakers compared to my old Surface RT. The speakers also lack any kind of bass. They are very "tinny" and shallow sounding. When using headphones, there is plenty of bass sound and the volume level is not an issue.
I am also experienceing a significant amount of sound crackling (from the speakers and attached headphones) when streaming video from Amazon Instant Video using both the desktop and metro versions of IE. I do not experience this crackling problem with other sound sources like Xbox music, gaming, or other website streaming video (i.e. YouTube).
Since I was experiencing this on two different Surface 2's, it seems unlikely that this is a hardware issue. This is most likely a software/driver issue. Is there anything that I can do to resolve this problem, other than wait for a possible software or firmware update?
Thanks.
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2013-11-26T01:21:57+00:00 I called Surface Support and a guy named Mitchell talked me through the problem.
First do a refresh and that will take your Surface to the previous firmware version. Then do a windows update, and download all the new updates (it will take a while - mine had 22 updates). Make sure your Surface is plugged in and can access the internet the whole time.
Once the update is complete you will be able to edit the bass/treble settings via the sound control panel. Sound is much louder and better now - very happy :)
He said it was due to a an incomplete installation of the update...
I have done that at least 3 times. And no luck.
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Anonymous
2013-11-26T00:54:30+00:00 I called Surface Support and a guy named Mitchell talked me through the problem.
First do a refresh and that will take your Surface to the previous firmware version. Then do a windows update, and download all the new updates (it will take a while - mine had 22 updates). Make sure your Surface is plugged in and can access the internet the whole time.
Once the update is complete you will be able to edit the bass/treble settings via the sound control panel. Sound is much louder and better now - very happy :)
He said it was due to a an incomplete installation of the update...
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Anonymous
2013-11-25T19:03:41+00:00 I habe the same problem. In my case it looks like the following...
- Latest driver "NVIDIA Tegra Audio", version 9.17.13.2757
- Deactivate "Signalverbesserung / Signal correction" on both, headphone and speaker, otherwise no sound will work
- The sound on my is headphones is OK and loud enough
- The sound via my speaker is very (too) quite
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Anonymous
2013-11-25T14:43:33+00:00 In my case I only had to downgrade the NVidia Tegra Audio driver. After that, system required me to restart. The speaker sound louder again.