

This is something that many equalizers struggle with, for some reason, so it’s a great starting point.Įssentially, when you switch on FxSound Enhancer, it will add an automatic EQ preset to your audio that will, in most cases, improve your listening experience if you are using cheaper audio equipment. I’d argue that whilst FxSound Enhancer isn’t going to make a $20 pair of earphones sound like a $200 pair, they can use EQ presets to improve the listening experience for many use cases.įirstly, I wanted to explain that FxSound Enhancer works smoothly and consistently across the entire Windows 10 OS.

FxSound Enhancer – $49.99įxSound Enhancer claims on their website that they can boost the sound quality of your music. We’ve picked out two excellent equalizers for Windows 10 below. With these equalizer apps, you can choose presets suitable for certain music genres or create your own custom equalizer preset. Equalizers are often used for music or listening to movies to help boost bass or limit other aspects. And you are not going to be able to install Realtek Audio Console app on HP computers because it expects HP audio app (which is really a re-skinned version of Realtek Audio Console app).With an equalizer, you can change the sound profile of your audio. Even if you can somehow install the plain HP audio app, the money tracking system will tell the the plain HP audio app to remove the HP EQ because your hardware id is expecting an EQ from B&O. You not installing B&O app will not magically bring you the Realtek Audio Console app. When there is money involved, Microsoft locks it down.

The entire windows driver system is built to track money so that end-user can't just download the premium audio driver onto their budget computer and get Dolby for free. HP has to pay Dolby and B&O (and DTS and Nahimic and IcePower and SoundBlaster.). A budget HP computer with alc898 may bundle with HP's own HP Audio app - so Realtek creates a separate hardware id for that particular model. A medium priced HP computer with alc898 may bundle with B&O app - so Realtek creates a separate hardware id for that particular model. HP doesn't buy a single identical alc898 chip for all their computers.Ī premium HP computer with alc898 may bundle with Dolby app for free - so Realtek creates a separate hardware id for this particular model.
