Try it ingame, go into 1.20 and break blocks, listen to music discs, and etc. It will sound completely normal. Hop into 1.20.2+ and the audio is muffled, and sounds terrible. This is not an issue with my device, as my audio in other games, videos, and media sounds normal. I hope this gets resolved in the next snapshot, or in a small patch because the audio is noticeably worse.
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I made an alsoft.ini file with "htrf=false" and out it in the apdata folder and it fixed it, tldr htrf is forced on in this update

Would this count as a duplicate of MC-265514?
Or MC-265586?
Can reproduce. the workaround from Kellen Hawley fixed it for now.

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Could you go a bit more into detail with your solution Kellen? I'm not a coder I have no idea what you said lol.
I have the same problem.