## Dell XPS 14 / XPS 16 (2026) internal speakers. ## ## Thirteen biquads and a lookahead limiter, applied as a PipeWire filter-chain ## in front of the internal speaker sink. The stock Linux path already loads ## Dell's Cirrus smart-amplifier firmware; this adds the perceptual voicing the ## Windows Waves layer provides and Linux does not. description="Dell XPS 14/16 (2026) speakers" ## Matched on the DMI product SKU, which is what Dell keys the Cirrus speaker ## firmware on -- 10280db9 for the XPS 14 and 10280dba for the XPS 16 -- so it ## identifies the speaker hardware itself rather than a marketing name. Compared as ## whole values, so this cannot widen to the rest of the XPS line. ## ## 0DB9 XPS 14 -- measured here, see below ## 0DBA XPS 16 -- included on report that this profile suits it, not measured match_sku=("0DB9" "0DBA") ## Unescaped dots: this is passed to awk as a string, where a backslash escape ## would be consumed before the regex sees it. sink_pattern='^alsa_output.*sof_sdw.*HiFi__Speaker__sink$' ## Provenance. Derived by measuring the response of the xps-clone EasyEffects ## profile from https://github.com/spencerbull/xps-audio-linux (MIT) and fitting ## a biquad chain to it. No upstream asset is redistributed: the convolution ## impulse response is not carried, so this tuning has no binary blob and is ## sample-rate agnostic. derived_from="xps-audio-linux xps-clone (MIT, spencerbull)" validated_by="dhh" validated_on="2026-07-24" ## The measurements below were taken on the XPS 14 (0DB9). The XPS 16 (0DBA) is ## covered on report rather than measurement; re-measure there before treating ## these figures as describing it. validated_hardware="XPS 14 DA14260 (0DB9)" ## Measured against that reference under a dense pink-weighted multitone of 104 ## bin-aligned tones. See docs/audio-tuning.md for how to reproduce these. magnitude_rms_db="1.24" bass_group_delay_swing_ms="13.2" limiter_headroom_db="1.6" ## worst-case peak on a hot master vs -1 dBFS dynamic_range_delta_lu="0.1"