GT 735 - audio via headphone is crap!

...let me start by saying that the sound capabilities of my GT735 are FREAKING AWESOME on it's own. The speaker system is totally unreal...I would never have imagined that a laptop could produce sound this good.
...but then yesterday, for the first time ever, I plugged in a set of headphones to listen to music in the office. And it was *shite*. Have to keep the volume very low to keep it from cracking like mad, and no bass is provided at all. It was the WORST sound I had ever heard from a laptop. And I was using really good headphones - tried 2 sets, actually, both of which are incredibly good with other laptops/PCs/whatever. The problem definitely is the GT735 itself.
...anybody else experience this? I'm running Vista 64-bit, using the drivers from the MSI website. I am shocked, shocked I say, at how abysmally bad the sound via headphone is. I am *this* close to having to either buy an expresscard sound card so I can use headphones, or just accept the fact that I can never use headphones.

Quote from: Bas on 28-February-09, 03:41:38
Did you tell Vista you where using headphones?
I selected headphones in WMP...not that it made any difference. I'm wondering if maybe the headphone jack is wonky itself...

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