Yes but I double checked everything again, even hooked my old monitors up to the new system last night for apples to apples test. The distortion is there, no doubt about it and I'm at my wits end, I've tried everything obvious, easy and even have gotten into the moderately difficult. I really don't know what to do next. Only thing I think I can safely say at this point is it has to be a Windows 10 issue or a defective hardware component other than the obvious sound card The Dell on line system scan says all of the hardware passes and is okay. Open to any and all suggestions, Right now I have a 900.00 paper weight. Every scan I've done says I have the most up to date drivers. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers. I guess I could go through the headache of a complete system restore but I have little faith in that as I believe this computer was like this out of the box, My bad I should have returned it.