Terrible sound for new Windows 7 Computer with Realtek HD driver.

I just recently purchased a new HP Pavilion 6230 and it has terrible sound with Windows 7 64 bit. I unistalled the realtek driver and installed realtek's latest driver and to no avail, the sound did not improve. I have searched the internet all over for a solution but there doesn't appear to be one. I believe realtek better take a look at this, or their going to have a nasty backlash on their hands from thousands of consumers, not to mention the manufacturers of the computers which put in the realtek products in the first place.

I had a similar problem with my Slimline s5330la with Win7.  It started as soon as I took it out of the box.  Any media file sounds distorted with a very annoying intermitent "buzz".  Updating the BIOS (to V5.07) and reinstalling the Realtek HD Audio driver didn't help.  HP support changed the machine (it was 2 days old) and sent me a brand new one........with the SAME problem!!!!!!  I just installed it and it has the same distortion.  I've been on the phone with HP support and they have no clue on what is happening. 
I suspected that it was not a "sound" problem since when a song is being played with the HP MediaSmart program and the title of the song appears on the screen, the name of the song "jumps" and "freezes" at the same time as the distortion appears as if the machine got some kind of interference.
After checking the latency of my PC with "DCP Latency Checker" (www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml) I realized that the problem was not the sound driver but the wireless driver.  
Disabiling the 802.11n Wireless PCI Express Card Lan Adapter "corrects" the problem.  This was not a solution given what without that driver you are off-line! However, at least it is more clear what the problem was.  
I had version 3.0.1.0 (19/05/2009) of the driver by Ralink Technology.  
HP has no updated driver for that component on their website but I found newer driver on RALINKTECH web.
I downloaded the 3.1.0.0 version from www.ralinktech.com.   Installed it and the problem was solved.
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