2019-09-27, 07:49
I'm running windows 10 insider build 18963 and have an AMD rx 580 8gb graphics card with an asrock x470 gaming k4 mother board (Realtek ALC1220 soundcard) and ryzen 2700x 32GB RAM. I've installed the latest AMD graphics drivers after resetting windows, I installed my mainboards realtek soundcard drivers through asrocks appstore utility program for updating drivers I don't know if this works with default Realtek drivers installed by windows. I've a pioneer VSX933 but this should work for most atmos or 7.1 receivers, in the receivers hardware speaker configuration I set it to the right speaker config and crossover then manually set the crossover for the speakers I'm using and set Levels all to max I then distance about 1.11m for all speakers.
If you have a distance from speakers to ceiling for atmos speakers mine sound best at maybe 1.53m this will change on your room. In windows 10 sound settings under the playback tab I find the Audio receiver connected by HDMI in the device listing and right click and configure speakers and check all speakers applicable and set to "Full range" I then go to the advanced tab and set the audio to 16bit 44100hz and ensure that the exclusive mode sound option checkboxes are both ticked enabled. Do not enable any spatial sound options like dolby atmos if you have them unless its for a game or app that specifically uses atmos like a handful of movies on Netflix or shadow of the tomb raider or gears of war or other games with atmos in the sound options leave your speaker configuration to be 5.1 or 7.1 at 16bit 44100hz. I then proceeded to install kodi 18.4 leia as an .EXE executable installer and configure it for 7.1 surround sound upmixing high quality best resampling and set default audio and passthrough to WASAPI and then adjust to specific WASAPI devices and try changing default sound device to directsound.
After cycling through all primary sound device comibinations with the passthrough set as WASAPI toggling on and off all the decoding options like AC3 to trueHD I disable kodi UI sounds and toggle the fullscreen mode display setting. I then uninstall kodi KEEPING the program settings then go to the windows 10 app store and install KODI from the windows 10 appstore. The previous settings are kept, I then open up the program and toggle through the audio output devices again default device and passthrough device to both be WASAPI.. then something amazing happens, the audio will sound far brighter and more life like almost like its clipping and distorting but still world changingly better to listen to. Something about having the previous settings from an executable installer from kodi and using the windows 10 app store app makes the sound better maybe somehow. I'm not sure whats going on, its almost like its got twice the audio output coming out at once. But everything sounds better though a little clippy which is why I thought kodi needed a normalizer. I thought that amazingly good audio quality was how it was supposed to sound till I did a reset/reinstall of my computer the other day and kodi sounded lame dull and flat and I fiddled till I got it working again.
Please look into and discover why the WASAPI upmixed surround sound can suddenly sound sooo damn amazingly good and make it the default sound output but without the clippy distortion? PLEASE thanks and even if you cant figure it out just please don't stop this exploit from working. However if you leave the audio playing for a long period of time with directsound default and WASAPI default passthrough the audio will distort more and more over time somehow? it still sounds great though.
If you have a distance from speakers to ceiling for atmos speakers mine sound best at maybe 1.53m this will change on your room. In windows 10 sound settings under the playback tab I find the Audio receiver connected by HDMI in the device listing and right click and configure speakers and check all speakers applicable and set to "Full range" I then go to the advanced tab and set the audio to 16bit 44100hz and ensure that the exclusive mode sound option checkboxes are both ticked enabled. Do not enable any spatial sound options like dolby atmos if you have them unless its for a game or app that specifically uses atmos like a handful of movies on Netflix or shadow of the tomb raider or gears of war or other games with atmos in the sound options leave your speaker configuration to be 5.1 or 7.1 at 16bit 44100hz. I then proceeded to install kodi 18.4 leia as an .EXE executable installer and configure it for 7.1 surround sound upmixing high quality best resampling and set default audio and passthrough to WASAPI and then adjust to specific WASAPI devices and try changing default sound device to directsound.
After cycling through all primary sound device comibinations with the passthrough set as WASAPI toggling on and off all the decoding options like AC3 to trueHD I disable kodi UI sounds and toggle the fullscreen mode display setting. I then uninstall kodi KEEPING the program settings then go to the windows 10 app store and install KODI from the windows 10 appstore. The previous settings are kept, I then open up the program and toggle through the audio output devices again default device and passthrough device to both be WASAPI.. then something amazing happens, the audio will sound far brighter and more life like almost like its clipping and distorting but still world changingly better to listen to. Something about having the previous settings from an executable installer from kodi and using the windows 10 app store app makes the sound better maybe somehow. I'm not sure whats going on, its almost like its got twice the audio output coming out at once. But everything sounds better though a little clippy which is why I thought kodi needed a normalizer. I thought that amazingly good audio quality was how it was supposed to sound till I did a reset/reinstall of my computer the other day and kodi sounded lame dull and flat and I fiddled till I got it working again.
Please look into and discover why the WASAPI upmixed surround sound can suddenly sound sooo damn amazingly good and make it the default sound output but without the clippy distortion? PLEASE thanks and even if you cant figure it out just please don't stop this exploit from working. However if you leave the audio playing for a long period of time with directsound default and WASAPI default passthrough the audio will distort more and more over time somehow? it still sounds great though.