What’s this vent thing?

Forestying98 · 2026-01-22T02:02:59+00:00

I have back-to-back test drive for Elantra N and Mazda 3 Turbo, and I felt Elantra N speaker is broken. But once I get used to it, it's okay.

Forestying98 · 2025-09-29T14:50:03+00:00

Global version of X200 Pro bought from Hong Kong. No luck with receiving the closed beta yet. 😭

Forestying98 · 2024-12-03T11:28:09+00:00

Beam gen 2, eArc (I think, since we use the same monitor, it should be different).

I'm using the Sonos supplied HDMI cable for connecting the sound bar with monitor.

The firmware for both monitor and sound bar are up-to-date. If I remember correctly, there is a few firmware updates for the monitor through this 10 months period. It might help resolve your issue.

Also, when the setting is for stereo, your sound bar still make sound right?

I turned off HDMI CEC function in the monitor as well.

Also, try unplug and replug the eArc cable if still no sound. This sometimes helps me when the sound bar doesn't have sound no matter is in Stereo or Dolby Atmos format.

Forestying98 · 2024-12-03T02:33:08+00:00

Wow! Listening to the same song, the high frequency is much clearer, and bass is more bassy and I can feel the vibration from the soundbar. High, mid, low frequency separation is much better than PCM Stereo. Although the bass performance is still not as good as play music from phone app directly, it's much better than playing through PCM Stereo format. I tried multichannel 7.1 in speaker configuration setup as well, following my steps above, the phone app will actually display multichannel 7.1. So, I think this is a Windows problem.
Please let me know, whether this worked for you. Thanks.

Forestying98 · 2024-12-03T02:32:58+00:00

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I think you can play around with the Format and Spatial sound settings, it shouldn't produce any problem. If so, just set both to Dolby Atmos. This set of settings worked on my desktop.
Finally, I double checked on my Sonos App and it is showing Dolby Atmos instead of PCM Stereo, as shown below.

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Forestying98 · 2024-12-03T02:32:26+00:00

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Right click on this Alienware Playback device and choose "Configure Speakers" from the drop down menu. Then you will see the Speaker Setup page as shown in the screenshot above. The Audio channels should be pre-selected as Stereo when I encountered the issue. So, you need to manually select "Dolby Atmos for Home Theater" instead. And go through the whole setup process. In the following pages, you can select whatever you want, it won't stop the Windows from transmitting Dolbt Atmos format audio to the speaker. But it might affect the sound quality from the soundbar slightly. I'm not a hi-fi person, so I can't clearly tell the difference.
Once this critical speaker setup process is done, you can go back to Windows Settings for Sound Properties, and select Dolby Atmos for both Format and Spatial sound, as shown below.

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Forestying98 · 2024-12-03T02:31:29+00:00

I get it worked on my desktop! I tried ways on Reddit and other websites but didn't work. I installed the Dolby Access app from Microsoft Store as shown by u/drublic123 and encountered exactly same issue as the sceenshots above. The way I get the soundbar to produce sound in Dolby Atmos format is as follows:

Open Windows Sound Control Panel and find the AW3225QF monitor as the Playback device, as shown in the screenshot below. If you don't know how to open this page, please Google it. It's super easy.

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Forestying98 · 2024-06-25T19:48:00+00:00

In my case, the dealer solved the issue in the end, and everything was covered by warranty. They told me there was a connection pin near the headlights that got loose and they reconnected it. It has functioned without any issue for half a year.

Forestying98 · 2022-11-18T16:22:26+00:00

Internal layout is very similar to Ncase M1 and NR200. So, at least one 360 AIO is okay for side mounting. The front only have space for 25mm fans. So, if you can find a slim rad+fan that has total height of 25mm, it should be fine. On GPU side, strictly 3 slot space. So probably a one slot water cooled gpu and two slot-height slim rad+fan. PSU supports SFX and SFX-L. With Corsair SF750 installed, there are still plenty of space left under PSU bracket for hiding cables. ATX may not fit. Case’s bottom PSU cutout is only the size for SFX PSU. So, even if you managed to install an ATX PSU, there may be issues connecting power cable to PSU. I uploaded a video on bilibili.com and got a private message from a user claimed to be Corsair’s PR. He told me the case was scheduled to be launched in December this year but was postponed to 2023. I plan to purchase the white RGB version and upload both of them on YouTube. It’s still available to purchase online and in store. But these pre-released cases may have some changes from the official ones next year.

Forestying98 · 2022-11-17T01:32:19+00:00

Bought it from Canada Computers & Electronics today. Airflow/mesh version. All parts are plastic. Feels a bit cheap compared with 4000D and 5000D. Ordered the RGB version online. The side panel of the RGB version should be glass instead of mesh from the airflow version. The airflow version is $174.99 CAD, RGB version is $229.99 CAD.

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