I listen on Windows media player it sounds SO squished.and jumps back for loud drum parts and comes back up for softer parts of songs.almost like some sort of hard limiter 1 - turn down the volume! WMP has the same for years - a volume slider that has about twice the range of what it should have been, around 50% is like 100% with other programs. So yeah, it does saturate the outputs of its own audio engine and any soundcard at the higher volume settings, of course they put there some kind of a limiter so its harder to know where's exactly the point that you go over the point of getting still clean audio. Yes - MS joined the Volume wars! 2000 Jeep Wrangler Parts Catalog. ! So now there's also 'which program is the loudest' war in windows apps 2 - it has many effects there ( some 'dsp' settings ) - EQ adds to the overal level so again you have to compensate and turn it down, a 'auto volume leveling' setting, the SRS window - with the WOW (whoaa. G-mouse Gps Drivers. wheeeeee.pffft;) fx and TruBass, also 'quiet mode'. Turn OFF all these.