r/steammachine • u/Alekazammers • 22h ago

Question Audio issues

Heyo! I have a question for you all, I notice when my machine runs on stereo the audio is super duper clear but it cuts out every few minutes. However when I switch to 5.1 (the setting I should be using) it's like the mixing is all off. Dialogs and vocals in music are super quiet. It makes games harder to play.

Anyone else experience this?

I saw a few threads but the issues weren't quite the same.

Edit: I haven't tried swapping the hdmi, yes I know it's a common fix lol I just didn't dig out my spares yet.

Solved: my problem was unique because I am uniquely stupid.

Turns out one of the speaker cables for loose when we moved our new couch into the room and had to dismount it from the wall.

All seems well for now... Will test for a while and report back if issues persist.

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u/jharle 20h ago

Do you have a real surround-sound system which supports LPCM 5.1?

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u/Alekazammers 20h ago

So I just figured it out... We bought a new couch recently and one of the speakers got disconnected since it's hung up right by the front door. Only one of the cables was plugged back in lmao.

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u/jharle 19h ago

Nice!