Question Realtek Audio won't play stereo, only surround

[theking4mayor]

So I seem to have the opposite problem as everyone else. I'm trying to play stereo sound through my Realtek (desktop PC - Win 7) to 2 speakers, left and right. I've updated the driver to the latest version.

System sounds work fine. music works fine. But, if I try to play anything with human voice, be it from a file or off a web browser, I get music, some sound effect, no voices. so I'm getting surround left and right, but no center channel sound at all. The only time I can hear the center channel is if I turn on environment effects, but then everything is echoey and crappy sounding.

The really weird part is it does this with files I know are stereo only, like the device is seperating sound by frequency or something.

I've been trying to figure this out for like a month now. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[americanaudiophile]

Did you try the speakers with another source (phone or another computer) just to make sure that they are OK?
What program do you play music with? Check the settings of that.
Is the audio set to stereo output?

 

[theking4mayor]

The speakers are fine. I've used 3 different speakers with the same results.

It doesn't matter what program I use, the results are the same.

The "environmental" sound plays back without a problem.

The "main mix" doesn't play any sound in the vocal range (as if surround sound)

It seems like a Karaoke mode. But to be clear, all FX are disabled.

 

[MDTOP]

Just a thought,
Have you opened the sound control panel and done the configure for 5.1 or 7.1? does the mid channel work? I had a Motherboard that would only configure the speakers when they were plugged in, every once in a while I had to re teach.

 

[theking4mayor]

Here is a video:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR-RtC3LRrY

 

[theking4mayor]

Just a thought,
Have you opened the sound control panel and done the configure for 5.1 or 7.1? does the mid channel work? I had a Motherboard that would only configure the speakers when they were plugged in, every once in a while I had to re teach.

I did check that. set to stereo

 

[MDTOP]

Sorry been on the road,
same screen select 5.1 and test if everything works it should be 5.1 from then on.