Bad stream quality from Win10

[rnickl]

Someone gave me an Excelvan DLNA music streamer a while back and I'm getting around to getting everything working.  Android and Apple were straight forward and simple enough and for Win 10 on my laptop I downloaded TuneBlade to get the stream working.
http://tuneblade.com/
Problem is, iPhone and Android tablet sound fine streaming.  Win 10 on the other hand sounds terrible, no highs and supper boomy.
 
I tried streaming from a few different programs, Kodi, WMP and Foobar all with the same results.  Headphone out from the laptop sounds good but the head out from the streamer is junk so I assume something is wrong with how it's getting streamed?  Any ideas on what might cause this or what to try next?

 

[NA Blur]

Any way to change the primary audio driver? The default Win driver is pretty terrible.

 

[rnickl]

  Any way to change the primary audio driver? The default Win driver is pretty terrible.

​Since I can hear a big difference between the head out from the laptop and streamer I think this is some other issue?  Wouldn't I hear it from both sources?
 
It's not a small loss in quality, the stream is really unlistenable.

 

[Roseval]

Maybe some conversion is going on somewhere.
As Excelvan is DLNA enabled, try skipping Tuneblade.
A Win PC is fully DLNA compatible (Media Sharing in Win speak)

 

[TuneBlade]

Hi, 
 
Please try changing the capture mode in TuneBlade to Virtual Device Loopback:
 
http://tuneblade.com/support/Documentation/2.html#ChangingAudioCaptureMode
 
The default capture mode (Direct Loopback) in TuneBlade is using WASAPI Loopback APIs on the default system audio device. TuneBlade captures the stream that is being rendered by Windows on the speakers. In Win 8 and later systems, the stream can be of low quality mostly due to Windows drivers cutting off frequencies that the tiny tablet/laptop speakers can't handle, and in some rare cases the quality of capture is degraded due to Windows' copy protection. In Virtual Device Loopback capture mode, this problem will not occur. (You'll notice when headphone jack is plugged in, the frequencies are not cut off, so when headphones are connected, TuneBlade's stream quality will have no issues even in the default capture mode.) 
 
Thanks,
The TuneBlade Team

 

[rnickl]

Thanks for pointing out my oversight TuneBlade, I should have gone back and looked at your support documents.  
That seems to have fixed the problem.  Thanks!