Xfi XtremeGamer Sound Problem

Hi all,
i've got a bit of an issue with the sound output on my XtemeGamer, the best way to explain it is the lower end sounds are very quiet an example of this is on the song California Dreaming you can hear the female singer a-ok but the male singer can hearly be heard.
I've tried disabling all the 3d and EAX options in the creative control panel along with the line in and aux connector from the windows sound app.
Also i have all of the latest drivers and control panel as of yesterday
Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?

!Try other drivers (preferably latest).
It sounds like you are running some kind of an audio filter which makes music sound different.
It could be a codec configured wrong, like you are listening to stereo but it makes it surround (or the opposite).
Or your mixer / preset is not the default.
If changing the mixer doesn't work (if it's already default) maybe try uninstalling your audio/video codecs and see if anything changes.

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!Try other drivers (preferably latest).
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Sound Devices
???Description: SB X-Fi Audio [000]
?Default Sound Playback: Yes
?Default Voice Playback: Yes
???Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_02&DEV_0005&SUBSYS_002202&REV_00
??Manufacturer ID:
??Product ID: 00
???Type: WDM
???Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
??Driver Version: 5.2.000.87 (English)
??Driver Attributes: Final Retail
???WHQL Logo'd: Yes
??Date and Size: 8/7/2006 :7:0, 500480 bytes
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??HW Accel Level: Full
???Cap Flags: 0xF5F
?Min/Max Sample Rate: , 92000
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?Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 28, 28
???HW Memory: 0
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