Today's patch 6.01 did nothing tbh. It is extremely off putting, having hyped up for Endwalker only to not be able to enjoy the audio of it. Epic moments like fighting the final boss of 6.0 were only filled with absolute frustration. Had to listen to the song/watch the fight on YouTube after.

I have a friend that says he and some people weren't affected by it at all.

On the other hand, look at the mass of people who are having this issue, myself included.

I'm aware Square might have a lot on their hands right now with the servers and all, but to drop this new sound engine at the start of an expansion lots of us looked forward to, only to not be able to fully enjoy the amazing music Soken makes was a bit of a bad decision. They could've tested the sound engine pre-expansion with us like they stress tested the servers.

I've already tried plenty of the things suggested before, nothing really works. I keep far away from heavily populated regions cause I don't want to hear Jimmy over there spamming their emotes over and over, or the random bard performing, so I noticed this issue in combat mainly. More research and experimenting is in order, I suppose. Or am I to be expected to purchase new PC parts...

I love this game, I really do, but god damn this expansion launch felt like a massive flop.