I totaly agree I love the battery life the screen the tablet use, everything but the sound.
I would agree with you about the sound but, for one thing, this is not a 100 or 200 buck tablet, this is a for me 800 dollar Computer, and what I expect from an 800 dollar computer is good everything and for a computer that claims to be able to play video and audio and be a great computer good sound is essential and the Hp envy X2 does not have good sound full stop.
So they should have put better speakers in it and a decent sound software like Relatek HD and proably made it a little bigger so the speakers would sound much better, if they did that it would have been perfect, but they went for style over usability, when I have to plug in external speakers to a device like this, it is a massvive fail, might as well not have put speakers in it, maybe they will fix it with version 2.0 !!!!
I think they just tried to cut corners make it cheaper and what happens then is mostly they hit the sound hardest, could have be so easy to make the sound really good but they did not, try using a clip on set of speakers when the tablet part doe snot even have a USB plug on it, eventhey if it did it would like a a awkward tumor even if was possible to use with it cliped on.
Would have been nice if they put some good speakers on the base, that would have fixed it for me, just wanted to use it as my itunes podcast pc, but with the sound it'sjust too painfull.
Maybe they can fix it with drivers, but I think it's a lost cause.
Noy just me say it has awfull sound, plenty of reviews say so, just wish I read them before I bought it, sound was one of my biggest things.
Get yours fixed enjoy it, be happy