EasyEffects can massively improve laptop speaker sound quality

cassianoleal•2 minutes ago

Last night I went through their guide on how to improve the sound of laptop speakers on my Framework. It's night and day, highly recommended.

https://wwmm.github.io/easyeffects/guides/guide_1.html

pyrophane•8 minutes ago

Most windows laptops will do something like this by default to enhance the sound. Part of what ships as "Dolby Atmos" is some EQ-ing and normalization, with the default not being flat. It is just necessary to make those tiny laptop speakers sound half decent and not crap out all the time.

ranger_danger•3 minutes ago

Really wished it worked with pulse or alsa. My distro does not natively support pipewire out of the box and I'm not interested in changing my setup.

jurf•about 2 hours ago

> Third, audio quality is deeply subjective, and what sounds good to my ears may sound like total garbage to yours.

Interesting article (audio processing should be a standard OS feature), but I wish we'd stop doing this. Speakers were never subjective (unlike earphones), they’re supposed to be flat – “equalised”. At least if you want to hear the thing as it was mastered.

I think it just hurts consumers in the end, as it validates snake oil in the form of various ”enhancements”, like image processing on TVs. It makes stuff really hard to compare and much easier to sell shitty hardware.

Not that I’m opposed to improving shitty hardware with software, – quite the contrary – it’s just the murky subjectivity that irks me.

SomeoneOnTheWeb•14 minutes ago

Why would speakers be any different than earphones? Botu are subjective ; I personally hate flat eq. I've listened to numerous products, some worth thousands of dollars, and I'll always take some sort of slight bass and treble boost over flat eq. I'll even take a big bass boost over no bass boost at all.

doubled112•28 minutes ago

The definition of sound quality tends to change between people.

My definition is pretty much the same as yours here, but I know quite a few people who hate listening to music on anything with a relatively flat frequency response.

coldblues•about 1 hour ago

Shout-out to the PEQdB Diamond target and the IG955, iykyk. I use EasyEffects to apply the EQ filters, and I think it is mandatory that you use EQ because your audio equipment most definitely sounds bad by default.

EasyEffects can massively improve laptop speaker sound quality

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