

If I reinstall the original Dell G3 realtek driver, the popping noise goes away and sound plays normally. Not sure what's going on here, but even an old Dell Latitude D830 is able to produce a decent sound and an "Enhancements" tab.

Installing the Microsoft High Definition Audio Device driver did force the "Enhancements" tab to appear under Speaker Properties BUT it produced two problem 1.) the audio would make a random popping noise and 2.) audio would only play through a headphone signal even though the audio was coming through speakers albeit a compressed sound. Nothing worked to make Windows' speaker properties produce a "Enhancements" tab so that I can activate "Loudness Equalization". Went through installing several different versions of Realtek drivers and also tried installing the Microsoft High Definition Audio Device driver included in Windows all inside of the device manager. Tried many different solutions found online.
