My son started complaining about the sound quality of music on his laptop recently and so I thought I'd have a listen myself. When music is playing, the quality is very garbled and it sounds like one channel is missing entirely. I've tried switching the settings to 'mono laptop speakers' and both speakers will work like this but still with one channel's sound missing (for example no vocals or lead guitar, just drums and bass guitar). I've checked the obvious stuff like 'balance' etc but I can't find anything wrong. It's the same with headphones plugged in and if I play the music using iTunes or windows media player. Any ideas anyone? Thanks

Uninstall and reinstall the audio device and drivers... Life's more painless for the brainless.

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