Holy crap - 32 pages on the big announcement thread. Forum at it's finest!
 
Anyway, remember that who LANDR thread thing - barrel of monkeys.  Had to tell what was mastered by what....for most people.
 
A day ago I noticed something interesting....was playing one of my songs from soundcloud via Chrome on my home HP Pavilion Windows 10 machine..... simple enough, right? Only the music I heard had a familiar reverbish addition to it (which was the case in pre-Windows 10, too), and I can tell you that that reverbish sound occurs whether I listen to the tune with Laptop Speakers or Ear buds, and alsowhether I use Media Player or SC via Chrome.  I know that if I stream the tune (same ear buds via SC on my android phone (using the RocketPlayer App, in this instance) that the reverbish overall sound thing is not there.  Also, the reverbish overall sound thing is not there if I stream the SC tune from my work laptop.
 
That said, my work laptop (Win 7) adds a different color to the music all together when I listen to my tune via Media Player (with no EQ modification settings).  For that matter, I've even seen Media Player on that (Win 7) machine completely disregard a fade out the end of a tune.
 
A few questions:
Anyone else seen weirdness like this? 
This a system media driver thing? 
 
Checked both system machines, no fancy EQ add on sh!t selected/enabled.
Work machine is SRS Premium Sound Pro
Home HP Pavilion Windows 10 machine uses IDT High Definition Audio CODEC

Each audio output in Windows can have unique 'enhancements' applied to just that output.
Right click on the speaker icon in the tray and choose Playback Devices.
Highlight the headphones (or whatever your earbuds device is called) and click properties. From the tabs at the top, select Enhancements.
Check Disable all Enhancements, then apply.
 
Some soundcards will have different options avaiable, like room emulation or a graphic EQ.
Disable everything and check the earbuds for reverb. Once you get it sorted, add back EQ or whatever you find useful.
SInce you have some proprietary HiDef stuff, you may have to fool around with trying to disable these completely.
It took me quite a while to get a straight sound out of my Toshiba LT when I was trying to use it with Sonar.
It has DTS sound. I finally had to uninstall that and also revert to the WIndows HiDef driver.