I was wondering if there is a way to uninstall the stock Waves MaxxAudio Pro "audio enhancer" this laptop comes with since it warps the audio and makes everything sound woofy. Even when I turn off audio enhancements I've noticed by doing some A/B testing with another computer that has stock Realtek drivers but whilst still using the same amp/dac between them that not all "enhancements" are turned off.

I am able to manually install generic drivers or to uninstall waves but the problem with that is that you lose headphone jack detection. Worst of all it's a fabricated problem. If I just reboot my laptop with the headphone jack plugged in it will detect on startup but if I then take the plug out and put it back in it doesn't detect it anymore. So some kind of driver that automatically installs even after I wipe the entire boot disk in disk part and clean install windows just wants waves to tell it something has been plugged in.

I'd just like a stock Realtek driver that has automatic jack detection and does not change my sound in any way.

On the off chance someone at dell reads this: how is it possible that you include such poorly written garbage on what is supposed to be a professional device. People have been complaining about this very thing since 2017. Windows already has such a bad audio pipeline compared to macOS and this is like throwing gas on the fire. It's like you want to lose people in the music industry as potential customers. I understand some people might like the changes to the audio waves brings, but there are more elegant ways to implement that and you should at least give people the option to use regular drivers.