Audio quality in HP Pavilion dv 6 1216

Dear All, Recently I had the bad idea of updating my drivers, and I downloaded and installed the latest HP audio driver from this site. The quality of sound is now much worse - there is crackling all over the place, even in ststem sounds (alerts etc). The audio control are now much more basic - no equalisers and no filters.
Does anyone know either how to uninstall this driver, or how to dind a reasonable non-HP driver somewhere?
Many thanks.

Hi @MelMB
If you have tried the steps listed in the document I posted in my first post in this thread? If you have then you are looking at a hardware issue and I recommend that you give us a call. You can reach HP Total Care at 1-800-474-6836 in North America or start here if you live outside of North America.
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You are finding out that the answer to this question tough. Everyone has their own opinion on this one.
I saved the responses to a topic I opened six months ago on this same subject. I saved them and cut and pasted them into one document. Here were the answers I received. Good luck. bob
Subject: Re: Classical Music & Bitrate
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2005 11:12 PM
To: <[email protected]>
RE: Classical Music & Bitrate
My experience with classical music (and music in general) is that the higher the bitrate, the better the quality and richness of the music. On the other hand, there is a limit to how much distinction your ears can make, and I think that anything above 192 kbps (mp3 format) is not significantly better (and not worth the larger file size). And in terms of volume adjustment, I personally have not found any need for it.
RE: Classical Music & Bitrate
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RE: Classical Music & Bitrate
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Sorry for taking so long to get back to this thread: had two twelve-hour work days in a row.
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I am working on some Music Videos to DJ at a party with, I notice that when I export them as .mov files with Final Cut HD Express, they have 320 kbps and 44.100 kHz in the audio compression settings. Once I export them in Quicktime 10.2, using the File / Export to... / iTunes drop down menu, the Second, (ipad, iphone 4, & AppleTV) setting (not using HD, so the Mac and PC tab is not an option.) The final exported file, that plays great in itunes, appletv, ipad, etc. has a reduced quality audio of Bit Rate of 159 kbps (instead of 320 kbps) and Sample Rate of 32.000 kHz (instead of 44.100 kHz). Is there anyway to change these preset settings somehow?
Your question basically has too facets. The first is the quality of the source audio in terms of sampling rate and data rate. Under normal circumstances you don't want to export the audio using a sample rate or per channel data rate that is lower than your original source if you are trying to maintain the quality as high as possible and, on the other hand, you don't want to use settings greater than the source values since they increase the final file size without improving the quality of the audio.
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