Ok so I think I might be going crazy.  I decided to switch my Windows 10 VM to Q35 3.0 from i440fx (for no other reason than I thought it would be cool to get the full PCIE support for GPU passthrough).  Everything went fine and it reinstalled all my hardware controllers.  GPU is fine.  I also have a PCIE Sound Blaster Audigy card that I pass through to the VM to use with my regular old green plug 2.1 speakers.  Well I swear ever since I made this switch, the balance of the speakers if off even though in Windows it's till even.  The right side is louder and clearer than the left side.  I had to go into the sound blaster control panel and set right to 80% and left to 100% to equalize it.

 

Is my hearing going bad or is there some quirk here that maybe someone has heard of before?  I also tried the MSIUtil to set interrupt for the sound card but it doesn't seem to make any difference on or off.

 

Feel free to tell me I'm nuts... lol

If anyone wants to have a good laugh, yes I'm nuts.  So funny coincidence... one of the drivers on the left speaker crapped out so of course left sounded quieter than right since only 50% was making sound.  Took me a while to figure it out cause it was still making sound, just not loud.

 

Anyway, new Bose desktop speakers and I'm back in business