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I'm sorry if this was resolved before, but the only threads I could find when I searched were the sound issues many people were having when trying to install Windows. It seems like whenever I get some deep bass or loud volume under Windows 7, the sound starts to get really scratchy like my speakers can't handle it? It's extremely noticable when I play Batman: Arkham Asylum, with all the background music thumping deep bass notes, and it gets to be quite distracting.
I thought it was my speakers going bad (I bought this laptop refurbished by Apple several months ago), but two things:
a) Plugging my headphones while I'm in Windows yields the same scratchy audio when bass gets going (and I know it's not my headphones).
b) The sound is fine under OS X, even when I crank the volume up the highest it can go, bass booster on in iTunes.
I suspect that it's a firmware/driver issue, but I don't really know where to go from here.

Find out what audio chip is used in your Mac, then look online for the most recent Windows 7 driver. Mine uses RealTek and I have always had to install those manually to get full use of audio and sound.
Look for a thread with MacBook unit and what drivers they use.

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