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Razer Synapse Updated and Headphones Sound Terrible

  • 19 November 2020
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I haven't opened Razer Synapse in a few weeks, I wanted to open the program to adjust settings related to my microphone but it forced an update.
After it taking like 10 minutes to update and not being able to do or watch anything through that time, the "THX Spatial Audio" sound setting started sounding terrible unlike how it was before, I leave it on since it makes sounds more bearable to listen to, but now everything sounds worse, peaking/muffled in some way and as if I didn't have THX on and my ears mildly covered from sound, turning it on DOES change how sound.. sounds but it still sounds absurdly bad compared to how it used to be.
I restarted the program, restarted my PC, reinstalled Synapse, no luck. It still sounds bad and a lot of sounds are hurting my ears. Things used to sound further away or something like that but it no longer does, enabling THX spatial audio only mildly changes how sounds sounds now, and it's very similar to as if I didn't have it on to begin with.
I do not know how to explain how it sounds, I do not have words to describe such things, it's not obscenely muffled, it just sounds bad and things sound like they're peaking more or something but not "peaking" as in purely volume, it is not loud but how it sounds hurts my ears.

I do not know what headset I have, I had to download a whole new program to adjust settings on it since my other items use an older version. It just shows up as USB audio controller in the program. It is possibly Kraken Wired Stereo Gaming Headset or something similar since I saw different names of headsets that look exactly the same.

I don't exactly know what THX is and how it'd affect basic sounds coming from my PC, but it definitely made things sound better, and after this update it all sounds terrible.
My equalizer is normal, my other settings are as they usually are, I just want my headset to sound like it used to sound.
I do not know if this update changed how THX sounded if this is supposed to be "better" or if there's some other issue that occurred, but I wish I could have a way to fix it.

My audio with THX Spatial audio OFF sounds like how it always has sounded, no difference than how it used to be.

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