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Realtek-UAD-generic
An unofficial package of generic Realtek Universal Audio Driver made from parts of various OEM specific Reatek Universal Audio drivers intended to work on legacy systems lacking OEM UAD support.
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I tried disabling the Waves and Realtek services per this post and related script on GitHub here. This worked for a brief moment, where internal and external audio sounded right. However, then detecting headphones in the 3.5mm jack would subsequently stop working (if unplugged and plugged back in), so only built-in speakers would be usable sadly.
Using this open-source Realtek generic UAD driver: I was able to install these drivers, and external headphones/speakers sounded good/unprocessed. However, volume controls ended up not working properly when using built-in speakers: decreasing the system volume level would end up making the sound more and more muffled, but it wouldn't significantly reduce the loudness, where even very low levels (like level 2 out of 100) would be fairly loud. Reducing an individual application's volume would work/sound fine, as long as system volume was up all the way, but that's not very practical.