Volume Swings During Songs with Beats Audio

Hi,
Numerous people have found this Beats Audio troublesome at best. I think I found a way around the constant sound fading in and out!
I bought an HP USB 3.0 Port Replicator and pushed the sound out of that Headphone socket bypassing the Beats Audio... Oh Joy! Oh Bliss ! No fading in and out!!
Hope this helps,
Chris

i found a solution for me at least, give this a try and see if it works
uninstall your idt audio drivers from the device manager, refresh the list, then just let windows install the drivers.
no idea why this worked for me but it did. i tried using hp recovery manager to reinstall them as well as downloading them from my laptops hp support page, but this is the only one that worked. it also worked consistently. i let the recovery manager reinstall them and same problem. let windows do it and problem solved.
each installation has the same version (6.10.6359.0), control panel settings and same settings within the beats manager, but the windows-installed one is free from volume swings and compression-y sounds. beautiful.
hope this helps. Good luck!

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    Originally Posted by bigcat400
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    Whew. I Didn't think it was this complicated when I started typing....
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    JJ 
    ENVY 15 l i5 540M l ATI 5830 GPU l 8GB DDR3 1333 l 2 x 160 GB SSD l 1920x1080 glossy l Win7 Pro l 10,273 3Dmark06   Last edited by JJB : 12-27-2009 at 03:41 PM.
    End of Excerpted Post 
    Credit belongs to the original author of the original procedure:
    JJB from HP beats-audio / Sound Reset Procedure 
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