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Turn On or Off Audio Enhancements In Windows 10

Last Updated on March 23, 2018 by admin 7 Comments

PC users who are not happy with the audio quality on their PCs can turn on audio enhancements to improve the sound quality.

Depending on your PC’s sound card, you might get one or more audio enhancements. Most cards offer bass boost, virtual surround, room correction and loudness equalization enhancements. For instance, if you feel the bass is too low, the bass boost audio enhancement can help you increase the bass level.

If you are on Windows 10 or earlier version, you can turn on or off audio enhancements with ease. Here is how to do that.

NOTE: At times, audio enhancements might deteriorate the audio quality. So, it’s a wise idea to turn on one enhancement at a time.

Enable or disable audio enhancements in Windows 10

Step 1: Right-click on the volume icon on the taskbar and then click Sound to open the Sound dialog.

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Step 2: Under the Playback tab, right-click on your speaker and then click Properties. You should now see the Speakers Properties dialog.

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Step 3: Under the Enhancements tab, you can see all enhancements that are available for your PC.

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If the Enhancements tab is missing, it’s likely because your sound card doesn’t support them. Try reinstalling the audio driver once.

Most cards offer the audio enhancements listed below. Depending on your PC’s sound card, you might or might not get all of them.

# Bass Boost – boosts the lowest frequencies that can be played by your PC

# Virtual Surround – encodes surround audio for transfer as stereo output to receivers with a Matrix decoder.

# Room Correction – compensates for room and speaker characteristics.

# Loudness Equalization – uses understanding of human hearing to reduce perceived volume differences.

Each enhancement has its own settings. Select an equalization and then click Settings button to view its settings.

Select or deselect enhancements you would like to enable, make necessary changes to default settings to fine tune them and then click Apply button.

As the dialog says, changes might not take effect until the next time you play someone on your PC.

Third-party audio enhancement software is also available. If you are an audiophile, you can try them out as well.

Filed Under: Windows 7 Tagged: Tips

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Comments

  1. Jamie Law says

    September 6, 2022 at 5:40 am

    Personally, I think the mix from 10 to 11 is screwy! I can’t set up anything with sound and headsets!! Also, having other issues with other apps that should be elementary!!

  2. John Longmire says

    September 29, 2021 at 6:49 am

    I had great sound on my Dell desk top. Turned it on one night and the sound was crap. It sound like I was listening to a transitor radio. The sound is terrible. No bass. How can I get the sound back to what I had? I need this to be free. Thank You for the help

  3. lisa says

    June 15, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    did not work i tried anything and this is a lenvo school laptop what do i do help me now please and its very diffrent from the other things

  4. lisa says

    June 15, 2021 at 12:38 pm

    did not work i tried anything and this is a lenvo school laptop what do i do

  5. M says

    June 5, 2021 at 10:52 am

    This is BS – the enhancements tab is present, but that usless dolby audio won’t let any of the best options show up!

    AND I can’t even access the so called sound options because… oh why you ask? because it’s GONE!

  6. chris campbell says

    October 14, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    crock of shite when it comes to may or maynot support your audio device. everything always depends on device support. to many devices and this one can do this and this one can do that. give more money if you want something better in your hardware. like anyone told me that the sound was lousy on the hp pavilion x2 when i bought it and no one said you won’t have the enhancements tab because your sound card doesn’t support it. computers suck. sorry just had to vent. thanks for the article but it didn’t help this hp pavilion x2 for making the sound louder. the thing sounds like a mouse voice.

  7. Milton says

    March 24, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    Having problem with Windows 10 pro. activating with this Error code 0xC004C060
    Can you please send me new windows 10 pro. key. The one on your website is not working.

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