solarwills
Junior Member
Hi
I have a dell latitude 5580 and pretty much since I got it, it seems to apply some strange echo on ANYTHING that I playback on the computer. At first I thought maybe the headphone jack had a problem, but I get it also when nothing is plugged in and I am listening on the built in speakers of the laptop. Doesn't matter if it's a mp3, on youtube, whatever software etc. Ever accidentally kicked a guitar amp with a spring reverb in it? It sounds exactly like this.. so annoying! Only reason I've been able to ignore for this long it is because I often use an external USB sound card and that gets rid of the problem.
After some more extensive research, this seems to be related to the Maxx Audio software (by Waves) that comes with the computer. I saw that there are built in effects like reverb and others, but they weren't even activated and trying to enable them just made things 100x worse. I played with pretty much all options in that menu and can't find anything. I tried to simply uninstall the software from my laptop, but it seems not even listed in the list of programs I can uninstall.
Also, I wanted to ask while I'm at it : whenever I plug a cable into the headphones jack, I get some pop up asking me if I plugged headphones, speakers or whatever. I wish to deactivate that. I mean... with all of my old laptops I could just insert the cable and be ready and good to go. It annoys the hell out of me to have to select something manually each time I connect a device to the computer.
Any help would be very appreciated, this is slowly driving me to insanity!
Thanks!
I have a dell latitude 5580 and pretty much since I got it, it seems to apply some strange echo on ANYTHING that I playback on the computer. At first I thought maybe the headphone jack had a problem, but I get it also when nothing is plugged in and I am listening on the built in speakers of the laptop. Doesn't matter if it's a mp3, on youtube, whatever software etc. Ever accidentally kicked a guitar amp with a spring reverb in it? It sounds exactly like this.. so annoying! Only reason I've been able to ignore for this long it is because I often use an external USB sound card and that gets rid of the problem.
After some more extensive research, this seems to be related to the Maxx Audio software (by Waves) that comes with the computer. I saw that there are built in effects like reverb and others, but they weren't even activated and trying to enable them just made things 100x worse. I played with pretty much all options in that menu and can't find anything. I tried to simply uninstall the software from my laptop, but it seems not even listed in the list of programs I can uninstall.
Also, I wanted to ask while I'm at it : whenever I plug a cable into the headphones jack, I get some pop up asking me if I plugged headphones, speakers or whatever. I wish to deactivate that. I mean... with all of my old laptops I could just insert the cable and be ready and good to go. It annoys the hell out of me to have to select something manually each time I connect a device to the computer.
Any help would be very appreciated, this is slowly driving me to insanity!
Thanks!
