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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.
 

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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.
 

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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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