Comment 257 for bug 1958019

(In reply to Cameron Berkenpas from comment #243)
> I just did the same thing, and my reaction is the same. The quality is
> lower under Linux, but it's not a massive difference. Maybe it sounds
> more tinny under Linux?
>
> Not sure what controls that... Maybe coefficients?
>
> I would say the current quality is still a massive step up over having
> had no sound at all.
>
> My current priority is to fix the headphone issues. I want the speakers
> to start working again after unplugging from the headphone jack.
>
>
> On 6/22/21 9:06 AM, <email address hidden> wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208555
> >
> > --- Comment #242 from TT (<email address hidden>) ---
> > (In reply to Cameron Berkenpas from comment #241)
> >> (In reply to Jenefer from comment #237)
> >>> (In reply to TT from comment #208)
> >>>> For those wanting to test it.
> >>>> - Download the verbs-working.txt provided on
> >>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208555#c206 .
> >>>> - git clone https://github.com/ryanprescott/realtek-verb-tools
> >>>> - sudo python3 realtek-verb-tools/applyverbs.py verbs-working.txt
> >>>> - put some audio to play
> >>> Thank you so much! This worked somehow on my lenovo legion 7i 15IMHg05.
> >>> It's not permanent though as audio needs to be played constantly for it
> to
> >>> last longer, otherwise it go back after few seconds. I hope that the fix
> >>> will be patched to the kernel after some fine-tuning as I noticed that
> >>> applying the verbs the quality of audio is not quite good compared to how
> >> it
> >>> was on windows. But who I am to complain, I'm just happy there is a
> >>> workaround to use keep me using linux on my machine.
> >>>
> >>> Also it's weird that the fix worked for my laptop even though I have the
> >>> issue with mis-detected codecs: the specs of my laptop list ALC3306 while
> >>> alsa reports ALC287.
> >>
> >> I haven't had a chance to try comparing the audio quality, but I have
> >> wondered if that might be the case... How did you compare? Was it with the
> >> same application? Ie, maybe FireFox/Chrome and YouTube?
> >>
> >> Is anyone else seeing differences?
> > I've ran firefox with the same youtube video and I also felt the quality is
> > lower on Linux. I don't know how to describe the difference though.
> > It is not a significant difference for me.
> > I am good with the current quality, but there is definitelly something to
> > improve there.
> >

I guess you already checked, but just be sure there is no "sound enhancement" activated under Windows... On my Lenovo, there is some sound enhancer activated by default in Windows.
Seems we get near to find a solution, I'll have to test on my 13S Gen2 all of this (and I will report back on the ALC3306 thread).