Sound / Audio

[rebcabin]

Hello -- when I open up the Realtek HD Audio Manager, the only option for "Speaker Configuration" is Stereo, but the system has the Harman-Kardon 4 speakers on the top and the subwoofer on the bottom -- that's the physical layout. Things sound good in stereo, but I can't tell whether the 4+1 speaker layout is working properly. Anyone happen to know what I can do to verify / test / find out? Is there a third-party testing program? Some other testing program from Harman-Kardon or from Realtek? Any other ideas? I have the latest sound drivers from the Toshiba web site for Windows 7 64-bit (Dolby, Realtek, and Speech I think are the three drivers in the "sound" category.

System is a brand-new X305-712 Qosmio.

Thanks in advance! 

[jjhusa01]

Same with me. I have a x305-q705.

I normally use my headphones. But they recently broke. I went to set the speakers and I only have the option of Stereo. I could have sworn, when I first bought the system, stereo wasn't the only option.

[rebcabin]

bumping this. Any clues, anyone? Windows 7 running well, just don't know if I've got four speakers or just two.

[Replica]

Hello. I have one of the X305 models myself. The Q701, to be exact. An older model, yes, but it's still pretty **bleep** good. Same physical layout also. And I'm not sure what you can do to do test out the speakers and the subwoofer. However, do you have Dolby Control Center installed? Thats the only software I'm aware of that enables the extra two speakers and I'm guessing the subwoofer also. It took me a while to figure it out. But on my computer (I have Windows Vista Home Premium), I go to Control Panel ---> Sound and then I one-click Speakers and then Properties near the bottom and it shows the four speakers because of Dolby Control Center.

I'm not sure how you can do that on Windows 7. I also am not sure how you can test each speaker individually.

As for the subwoofer, I'm not sure how to check that myself. But a tech would definitely know the answer.

[cee_64]

Don't count on it.  There are a number of posts about this problem in the WIndows 7 forum here and no one has figured it out so far.  They are still waiting for Toshiba to come up with an answer, but they haven't been able to do so yet that I have heard of.

[Zhelkus]

I own an X305-Q706 which also comes with Harman Kardon 4.1 speakers... and just like everybody else I'm very disappointed with this sound issue. A real let down.

Everything worked nicely on Vista. I decided to upgrade to Windows 7 and everything seemed to also work nicely until I tried out the sound. It was horrible. the Dolby Control Center was working but there were only two speakers available. With the sound expander and natural bass it sounded even worse, probably because it wasn't working with all 4 speakers. Not sure tho. I definitely get a great deal of bass from the woofer, probably what's wrong is that the Dolby Control Center doesn't work so well on 7.The sound just sucks when the Dolby features are enabled.

As for the speaker configuration, the only setup I have available is Stereo, no Surround or 4 speaker option. I could have sworn there was a 4 speaker choice on Vista. Also, I remember there was another program that came with Vista that's not included in 7, I think it was Sound Max or soemthing like that. It was a small tool to enhance the bass and treble besides the one from Dolby.