The subwoofer on my 1558 has absolutely no sound as well.

I updated to the latest drivers too but still no difference in terms of sound quality.

BTW, does anyone know how SRS Premium Sound is reflected in the Dell Studios ?

Having read the description at their website, I'm beginning to doubt if this was a marketing ploy by Dell as the sound quality on my studio is just marginally better than on my older Compaq :

http://www.srslabs.com/premiumsound/sound.html

Also, having read the Studio manual, the laptop is supposed to come bundled with 4 speakers and 1 woofer. Has anyone managed to successfully test all speakers ?

When I tried the Speaker Setup, the only audio that came out was from my L and R speakers.

Anyone having the same problem ?

This post has been edited by axepert: Apr 5 2010, 11:13 AM

Found the fix to my problem !

Initially I called Dell support to inform them about this problem, but the support person said that I had to manually install the Soundblaster drivers as 'occasionally' it could have been left out from installation from the factory. I told her that mine was already installed, but she said I should re-run the installation CD again.

Doubting her, I fiddled around abit and found SRS audio had to be manually enabled (its disabled by default). Once turning it on and killing off all the mids/treble, I could hear the puny subwoofer warbling underneath. I had high hopes for this to be great sounding seeing how they marketed it with SRS premier sound, subwoofer, surround sound etc, but boy am I disappointed.

Anyway, issue resolved, and now I probably have to think about getting myself a separate set of speakers now ... sigh ..