![]() Am I wrong in that, perhaps the tuning just does something more basic? Or maybe Razer really have changed the speakers in some way since the previous model, so the tuning no longer matches up well enough for it to work (but that seems unlikely, as the chassis design and most of the hardware seem to be unchanged - it's only really the CPU that's been upgraded from the early 2020 model, which still had Dolby Atmos rather than THX). some people at Dolby were sent one of these laptops and then came up with the appropriate tuning for its speakers (and their positioning etc) to produce the mega-spatial effect. ![]() I'm assuming the tuning is what allowed it to do that, i.e. So I'm not sure if I'm still missing something. Dynamic mode (and the others) sound a bit different from how it did with the initial modded driver (better I think), but for some reason it still doesn't sound super spatial like it used to. I then found what seems to be the actual "tuning data" etc in the Dolby driver download from Razer (for the old laptop), and after replacing the equivalent files in system32\dolbyaposvc, with some slight modifications, I was able to get the tuning data to be recognised by the new/modded Dolby Atmos version (it even says "Professionally tuned for Razer" in the corner now, and the tuning version/date shows up in the About dialog). To start with it said "Tuned for Republic of Gamers" in the bottom left corner, and Dynamic mode did make things sound better than without, but didn't seem to make things very spatial. I used "Dolby Atmos Speaker System" (as that seems to be the same as the "Dolby Atmos" my old laptop had, just renamed). I have managed to get Dolby Atmos working on the laptop now, by removing everything else and then installing the modded drivers from here. Sorry I'm not sure whether those questions in the edits were for me or not, but I'm afraid I don't even know what all these acronyms etc mean yet (I'm a complete newbie to this sort of audio stuff). So I think the only reason they've switched to it is because I'm guessing they were paying some sort of fee to Dolby for including Atmos, whereas they've owned THX for a while now and have been producing headsets with it for years, so I suppose it's kind of odd that they ever went with Dolby Atmos in their laptops in the first place. It seems like it might be slightly better with headphones (a few more options appear only when headphones are plugged in), but it still doesn't sound particularly good or "spatial" to me. things might sound a couple of inches to the right of the laptop, but can still easily tell it's coming from the laptop speaker really - nothing like Dolby Atmos where it sounded like the other side of the room) ![]() And a switch that goes between "THX Stereo" and "THX Spatial Audio", but switching it to the latter just makes everything sound more muffled (so music sounds worse and speech is less clear), while seemingly just adding a tiny bit of extra stereo separation (i.e. It doesn't have any sort of general enhancement setting like the Dynamic mode in Dolby Atmos, it just has different settings for specific things like "Music" etc which just seem to adjust the equaliser sliders and don't make it sound that much better. Whereas the THX Spatial Audio that Razer have replaced it with doesn't seem to be much more than a basic equaliser. I don't think I've ever heard anything do that quite so convincingly before, and I was amazed it was even possible from the tiny laptop speakers. It took several minutes (including getting up and going and searching over there) before I realised the sound was actually being produced by my laptop, in the game. Dolby Atmos on the 2019 model was amazing, turning on the "Dynamic" mode immediately made everything sound way better, and when I first tried a game shortly after getting my laptop, I thought someone had left a phone or something on the sofa because I could hear a sound coming from way over the other side of the room to my right. I don't know how it compares to that, but compared to Dolby Atmos, I'd say it's rubbish (on my laptop at least - that's why I want to get rid of it).
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