Satellite A300 - Different sound in PSAJ4E and PSAG8E

I have two Toshiba Satellite A300. One is A300-15K (PSAJ4E) and has Conexant driver instaled. Second is A300-20E (PSAG8E) and has Realtek Semiconductor Corporation driver.
The sound comming from harman/kardon in the first is beautiful and in the second much worse. I tried to install Conexant drive in the second Toshiba but it doesn't work. I tried sound setup but without positive result. My system in both Toshibas is Vista 32 bit. Are there any possibilites to improve the quality of sound in the second Toshiba?
Thanks

>The sound comming from harman/kardon in the first is beautiful and in the second much worse.
Satellite A300-20E support HARMAN/KARDON speakers and Realtek sound chip.
The Satellite A300-15K supports HARMAN/KARDON speakers as well but it supports Conexant sound chip instead of Realtek sound chip.
The Realtek HD audio manager is installed on notebooks with Realtek sound chip and can be found in control panel.
There are different settings which could improve the sound quality.
The Conexant sound chip does not support such HD audio manager and I think this might be the reason for the different sound.
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