[schmalgausen]

My admins applied a mandatory update from Win10 to Win11 on our working laptops. And suddenly I noticed some strange sound changes. I use mostly Spotify Premium and Schiit Modi/Magni stack. I don't know really if it's a real change or Xmas fever. Anybody freel the same?

 

[sygnus21]

My admins applied a mandatory update from Win10 to Win11 on our working laptops. And suddenly I noticed some strange sound changes. I use mostly Spotify Premium and Schiit Modi/Magni stack. I don't know really if it's a real change or Xmas fever. Anybody freel the same?

Spotify is working perfectly on my Windows 11 Pro devices. And I've been running Windows 11 since it was officially released to public in 2021.

That said, if the Schiit stack requires drivers, you might look to see if there are some new ones for Windows 11.

Also, if you need help with Windows 11, I suggest the elevenforums.com site. Note though we do not support circumventing any measures put in place by your IT department.

Good luck.

 

[schmalgausen]

From the site:

You do not need drivers for Windows 10, MacOS or for Linux distros that support UAC2. These drivers are for legacy Windows support only.

 

[castleofargh]

You can always check that there is no joke like Sonic or Dolby Atmos turned on by default. I sometimes get crap like that from an update(OS or audio drivers). Just 2 weeks ago I put on some music, and it was clipping like hell. I restarted the player, then restarted the computer, "did you turn it off and on again?". Then went to look into all the settings that get casually changed by the OS sometimes, for reasons... And sure enough, something was not how I told it to be.

 

[schmalgausen]

 

[schmalgausen]

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[b0bb]

My admins applied a mandatory update from Win10 to Win11 on our working laptops. And suddenly I noticed some strange sound changes. I use mostly Spotify Premium and Schiit Modi/Magni stack. I don't know really if it's a real change or Xmas fever. Anybody freel the same?

Was the resample setting the same before the update?.
176k setting may sound better or have it disabled entirely.

 

[Jo-JS]

my windows 10 drive decided to commit sudden holy seppuku, and i replaced it with new drive and thought, heck lets go with windows 11.

bad decision

very bad decision, if you dont have a very lucrative feature in windwos 11 that windows 10 lacks, stick with it

 

[sygnus21]

my windows 10 drive decided to commit sudden holy spukku, and i replaced it with new drive and thought, heck lets go with windows 11.

bad decision

very bad decision, if you dont have a very lucrative feature in windwos 11 that windows 10 lacks, stick with it

It's only a bad decision if you don't know what you're doing - and or your PC doesn't support it via TPM 2.0 or an 8th gen or higher CPU.

I've been running Windows 11 since before the official release. Zero issues. Zero issues now.

 

[Jo-JS]

It's only a bad decision if you don't know what you're doing - and or your PC doesn't support it via TPM 2.0 or an 8th gen or higher CPU.

I've been running Windows 11 since before the official release. Zero issues. Zero issues now.

i utterly hate it, im a network engineer, ive had my own pc labs, this system ui was designed by a 5 year old.

edit: My pc is TPM 2 certified, and my CPU is 5800x3D, my system more than supports it, i still had issues installing it and even more troubles actually using it.

i ****ing hate M$ hello system, I HATE the pin requirement, im married without kids i have nothing to hide. if anything wife should check my porn to stay up to date with whats hot imo lol. ps alicia williams, JSing

 

[bfreedma]

i utterly hate it, im a network engineer, ive had my own pc labs, this system ui was designed by a 5 year old.

edit: My pc is TPM 2 certified, and my CPU is 5800x3D, my system more than supports it, i still had issues installing it and even more troubles actually using it.

i ****ing hate M$ hello system, I HATE the pin requirement, im married without kids i have nothing to hide. if anything wife should check my porn to stay up to date with whats hot imo lol. ps alicia williams, JSing

I, like most people, don't initially like new UIs given the familiarity with an older UI. The first few weeks were all about "where did they hide the cheese" in W11 After the first 2 months running Win 11, going back to Win 10 seemed clunky and unintuitive.

I've had fewer issues with Win 11 than I did with Win 10. Obviously, YMMV but the OS is not inherently flawed. All but one of my early Win 11 issues was solved via driver and OS updates. The last 18 months have been almost flawless other than a few quirks when I added a super ultrawide monitor. Most of those were app issues and not OS issues. For example, Teams can't share the full 5120 x 1440 resolution.

 

[schmalgausen]

Any OS is just the way to click icons on desktop. However, we talk about sound here .

 

[bfreedma]

Any OS is just the way to click icons on desktop. However, we talk about sound here .

Modern OS's include code/components for of the reproduction of sound. Codecs and Drivers for hardware in the audio chain, and the underlying control of communications (USB, Ethernet). buffering and DSP (in some cases). Something has to coordinate getting the source to the output...

 

[sajunky]

I wonder if they fixed Windows limiter.

 

[michael2v]

My admins applied a mandatory update from Win10 to Win11 on our working laptops. And suddenly I noticed some strange sound changes. I use mostly Spotify Premium and Schiit Modi/Magni stack. I don't know really if it's a real change or Xmas fever. Anybody freel the same?

I don't think it's just you! I just went through this whole ordeal while A/B testing a new headphone amp, and have narrowed down the issue to either being hardware-specific (that particular motherboard) or Windows 11.

I'll do my best to explain how the sound changed: toggle "mono" mode in Windows while playing a track...the music loses a sense of depth, dynamics and space. The change I was hearing was similar to that (not 100% mono, but moving in that direction). For a given volume, I was also missing a sense of impact and detail; the notes were all there, but the original sound was more visceral, and whatever hardware/software issue I was having muted this. I verified that all of the Windows sound settings were identical (at first I even thought I had "mono" mode on accidentally, but that wasn't it).

Someday I will take one of my non-critical PCs and upgrade them back to Windows 11; I'm certainly hoping it was just the particular motherboard that was doing something wonky. But your experience is making me think it was software!