It seems like whenever in 2 speaker or headphone mode audio directly in front of the player becomes almost muted. In 4.1 and 5.1 speaker modes the audio is fine. I'd prefer to use headphone mode so I don't wake up my kid or disturb my neighbors. Anybody else having this issue?

Using Windows XP SP3 w/ X-Fi Titanium, no 3rd party codecs installed.

I also noticed in the full ini file on the web the default audio renderer for Skyrim is XAudio2. Any way to change that to DirectSound?