I have just done a back to back comparison with this laptop and a mid priced Mobile phone and I can honestly say that the audio quality of the output of this Dell Laptop at nearly $2000 is absolutely terrible and it makes every song listened to sound like there is a defect with the headphones, which there is not....if you like music, avoid this inferior audio output at all costs, just IMO and I think Dell need to rethink their choices of audio dacs