How to Customize & Enhance Speaker Sounds in Windows 7

January 2nd, 2010 . Filed under: Features. Tags: Sound

In case you find that your sound volume is not to your satisfaction or not as loud as you would like it to be, even though both, the volume mixer and the application’s volume is set to maximum level, you may try to enhance the sound quality by making a few changes to your current speaker configuration.

To do so, right click on the speakers icon on the right side of your Windows taskbar and select Sounds.

Click on the Playback tab, select Speakers and click on Properties.

Here you can select or delect the enhancements to apply for your current speaker configuration.

Click on Settings tab of each of these options to further fine tune the sounds.

- Bass Boost will boost the lowest frequencies
- Virtual Surround will encode surround audio for transfer as stereo output
- Room Correction will compensate for room & speaker characteristics
- Loudness Equalization uses understanding human hearing to reduce perceived volume differences.

Checking the Loudness Equalization option may increase the volume a bit.