Bad sound with my user

Hi,
since a while Ihave sound issues with my normal user, the sound is bad, no trebles and so on.
If I use a fresh user, everything is O.K.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Ishan

Do you have any 3rd party software or components installed to specifically one user on your computer? You may want to check if there is any software interfering with your sound. You may just want to migrate your data from your main user account with the messed up sound to a new user account.

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