[under research] Laptop speakers output sound is worse with pipewire than with windows | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

fallen ember Jul 3, 2025, 3:01 AM

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I just noticed that, for some reason, when playing songs under windows, it gives me a better, richer bass, middle and vocals ootb.
I also noticed that it locks my laptop output speakers to 48KHz, 16 bit.
what I want to do, is to figure out, how windows does the audio, so I can replicate it under arch.

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I've been digging into this, by comparing what few data I have. windows has windows sonic, and "audio enhancements" on it's settings. idk what are those, but it contributes to improve the speakers output.

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for now, I'm trying to replicate the configuration that windows locked for my speakers

fallen ember Jul 3, 2025, 3:22 AM

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well, so far, using easyeffects and getting laptop related audio profiles is helping

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also, setting pipewire config files to 48KHz

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I would like information about quantum

fallen ember Jul 3, 2025, 5:10 AM

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well, using this repo helped me to get presets that made my sound get closer to windows one
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/wiki/Community-presets

GitHub

Community Presets

Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications - wwmm/easyeffects

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I'm still researching a way to perfect clone the audio

#[under research] Laptop speakers output sound is worse with pipewire than with windows