How to revert Windows 10 audio quality to that of Windows 7?

I recently updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 on the free update. Ever since, the audio quality of 3rd party applications such as games and Spotify has been very poor. However, all the windows 10 alert tones sound fine. There are multiple questions and threads about this topic and a lot of people are having the same problem. I have looked through some of these and none of the solutions worked for me. I believe this is because I don't use the audio outputs built into the motherboard but instead use a USB going into a Focusrite Saffire 6 USB which then goes to a set of speakers. Due to this fact when i go onto the Realtek HD audio manager there are no controls and I'm presented with this message You are seeing a blank page because there are no audio devices plugged into the system. To activate the GUI please plug an audio device in the system. So I was wondering if any has found a fix to this problem. Any help is appreciated.

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