Alternative Sound Enhancement / SmartAudio Lite

Hi all
For those who wanted to try something other than Dolby, and / or having sound quality issues with the default Conexant driver or external low output issue with Dolby, you are welcome to try my new modified SmartAudio Lite drivers.
I will be posting new sound tweaks with additional 3rd party equalizer that could work well with SmartAudio. It will be released out soon.
Stay tuned!
EDIT: Download link and instruction to install is in the attachment. (SmartAudio Lite.pdf)
EDIT2: Note: Currently, this does not support Dolby EQ, except T420s and X1.
Peter
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Sound Enhancement (Post comments, share mixes, etc.)
Dolby Home Theater v4 ; IdeaPad Slate Tablet
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Attachments:
SmartAudio Lite.pdf ‏720 KB

Hi all
The attachment below is the SmartAudio Lite pdf with the hyperlink fixed.
For equalizer, you could try EqualizerAPO (link below). However, to have different EQ settings for internal and external device. I would recommend you open SmartAudio > Audio Director > Switch to Multi-Stream mode.
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Dolby ; Tablet EQ ; Equalizer APO

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