Nvidia HDA: Clear sound, easier to tell diference between Flac and MP3 ( mainly the soundstage details are better, youtube sounds muddy and noisy compared to FLAC, never noticed the difference between youtube and flac using onboard ).Ĭonclusion: Get real amp/dac. Onboard: Nearly impossibe to hear the difference, sounds bit more muddy and punchier like as if there was extra layer of bass over the whole range. Nvidia HDA: Sound slowly starts appearing inbetween 17-18kHz Onboard: Starting to suddenly notice only at 15kHz ( 16kHz pure silence ) No noticeable Differences besides the rattling and cracking in Test #1. Onboard: Rattling/Cracking on the end of the kick. Monitor ( as Amp/Connection to Nvidia via HDMI ) - LG 25UB55-B

If there's Sennheiser owners or other Entry Audiophile/Audiophile headphone users i would like to hear about your results. It is a Windows 10 computer, Geforce 1070, no overclocking, nothing fancy.Hello guys so i was testing the differences between HDA and my Onboard ( ALC887 - 2018 Drivers ). Most solutions found on the web being quite old, I wanted to know if there is now an ultimate solution or a known driver version which solves all known nvidia HD audio problems? Could this be a side effect of the registry edit? Otherwise, is there a way to find out what is happening?

To solve this, I have to stop and restart the application running the movie (be it media player, VLC, a browser, it occurs with various applications.) - it happens randomly, maybe one out of 20 times I start a movie? And it is not a problem of starting the movie after the computer has been idle for a while. Notably, I applied the registry edit to disable idle power state which seems to have fixed the issue of 5.1 reverting to stereo:īut now it can happen that when starting a movie, no sound is output via HDMI at all.

Each workaround seems to fix something but either not fix everything or add another problem. So I have been plagued by various nvidia HD audio driver issues (silent stream bug, intermittently no sound, sound setup reverting from 5.1 to stereo, etc.), with audio being output to hdmi together with video.

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