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Suddenly MPHC audio is too low

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Hi everyone,

I have this thing with my audio in movies that appeared recently. Here are the details:

Audio setup:

Sound card: Creative Recon 3D
Headphones: JVC HA-RX700
MB Audio: dissabled from BIOS
Other audio devices:
- GTX970 ( my monitor has built-in speakers/ Displayport is the connection)
- soundbar: Wharfedale Vista 100 with optical to the soundcard/ cable is from Philips or so.

Everything is on stock, I just installed drivers for the audio card when doing the fresh install long time ago. Haven't changed any default settings. When I play a movie on my headphones, usually I need volume 2-4 (lowest levels) and I can hear pretty good if not loud. But for a while volume became really low. Like even on 100% is still low. Only change I have done recently was installing the newest Nvidia drivers. Nothing else. No games, no other software to my knowledge. With my second kid around, watching a movie is a rare event on a grand scale. This happens with my favourite player: MPHC. When using windows movie application, volume "behaves" normal. It really pisses me off. I uninstalled and installed MPHC a few times. I select "reset default values". No help. Any ideas?

Sound panel looks like this:

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MPHC internal audio filter looks like this:

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Check Windows Update for recently installed updates. Wouldn't be surprised if your computer grabbed a driver.
 
Check Windows Update for recently installed updates. Wouldn't be surprised if your computer grabbed a driver.

Agree with this ^ Win 10 updated my realtek drivers a few months ago and it broke my soundblaster compatibility... had to revert to old realtek drivers and everything worked fine again, bleh.
 
Check Windows Update for recently installed updates. Wouldn't be surprised if your computer grabbed a driver.
Yup agreed on 2 separate occasions I’ve lost my center channel to Win updates. Reinstalling drivers corrected the issue.
 
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