So I've had something quite odd going on with my original Switch for quite some time now. At some point it started having audio clipping when played through the HDMI. It also seems a bit loud, so I think for some reason audio is being boosted through HDMI. It really is annoying and can ruin the audio of a lot of things -- especially when I'm listening to music. Interestingly it is only the HDMI. If I plug an analog cable into the headphone jack (even to the same amplifier with the same volume set) it sounds normal with no clipping. It does this with multiple devices and even multiple HDMI cables (not that they should make a difference, but I tried anyway to be sure.) I only have one dock to test on, but it is the official dock.
It didn't do this in the past, so I've been wondering if it was something an update did. I can't exactly say when it happened because, depending on what I'm doing it sometimes isn't as obvious and it took me quite a while to even realize why I felt its sound wasn't very good anymore. What is really interesting is that it does it both in CFW (Atmosphere) and OFW, but my CFW is as up-to-date as my OFW (and Atmosphere doesn't replace all functions.) I thought maybe there was some sort of setting somewhere that could have defaulted to on after some update, but I never found one. Plugging it in directly via analog bypasses the problem, but can be very inconvenient and annoying -- plus it creates its own set of problems. I'd really like to figure out what is causing this and fix it if at all possible, but I have pretty much exausted all options and searching doesn't help at all so far.
It didn't do this in the past, so I've been wondering if it was something an update did. I can't exactly say when it happened because, depending on what I'm doing it sometimes isn't as obvious and it took me quite a while to even realize why I felt its sound wasn't very good anymore. What is really interesting is that it does it both in CFW (Atmosphere) and OFW, but my CFW is as up-to-date as my OFW (and Atmosphere doesn't replace all functions.) I thought maybe there was some sort of setting somewhere that could have defaulted to on after some update, but I never found one. Plugging it in directly via analog bypasses the problem, but can be very inconvenient and annoying -- plus it creates its own set of problems. I'd really like to figure out what is causing this and fix it if at all possible, but I have pretty much exausted all options and searching doesn't help at all so far.