How To Change Audio Quality Windows 10

Posey's Tips & Tricks

How To Meliorate Windows 10'due south Sound and Video Quality

Windows 10 comes with born tools that can help users get the about out of their sound and video hardware.

About people don't give a lot of thought to sound and video settings within Windows ten across making certain that the volume is at a comfy level and that the display resolution is set correctly.

Fifty-fifty so, those users who piece of work as content creators can do good from optimized sound and video. Every bit such, I wanted to evidence you some settings that can help users get the nearly out of their sound and video hardware.

Believe information technology or not, Windows 10 includes an blaster that y'all can utilise to optimize its sound quality. Windows has long included some basic tools for adjusting sound-related properties such equally balance and volume, only the Windows 10 equalizer goes across that and can truly enhance your calculator's sound.

To get to the equalizer settings, open the Command Console by entering Command at the Windows Run prompt. When the Control Panel opens, click on Hardware and Sound, followed past Audio. This will cause Windows to display a dialog box listing all of your estimator'southward sound hardware. Y'all can see what this looks similar in Figure i.

**[Click on epitome for larger view.]** *Figure one: The Sound dialog box lists all of the PC's sound related hardware.*

Make sure that the Playback tab is selected, as it is in the figure in a higher place, and then select your primary sound output device. Now, click Backdrop to open the device'southward Properties sail.

When information technology comes to enhancing a PC's sound quality, there are two master tabs of interest. First, select the Spatial Sound tab, which you can see in Figure 2. Every bit you can encounter in the figure, spatial sound is by and large turned off past default. However, depending on your sound hardware and the drivers that you have installed, you lot may accept some options for enabling spatial audio. On my PC, for instance, in that location is an choice called Windows Sonic for Headphones.

*Figure 2: Choose the spatial sound format that you want to use.*

Next, click on the Enhancements tab. This is where you lot will find Windows' congenital-in equalizer. It isn't quite as fancy as some of the third-party equalizers that you lot can get for Windows, but information technology does a good job nonetheless.

The blaster currently offers four sound profiles: Bass Boost, Virtual Environment, Room Correction and Loudness Equalization. Incidentally, these profiles are not mutually exclusive; you can cull multiple profiles if you similar. In about cases, all yous have to practice is select the corresponding checkbox, although the Room Correction profile does require some extra configuration steps.

Interestingly, the various sound enhancements are customizable. Suppose that you wanted to utilize the Bass Boost, but for whatever reason yous don't like the way information technology sounds. You can adjust the Bass Boost (or any of the other profiles) past selecting information technology and clicking the Settings button. This causes Windows to display a dialog box that allows yous to set the boost level for each individual frequency, as shown in Figure three.

*Figure iii: You tin can customize whatsoever of the available sound profiles.*

Every bit I mentioned at the beginning of this article, at that place are also some things y'all can practise to improve your computer's video output. Before I show y'all this how to do this, I want to point out that just as a third-party blaster is inevitably going to exist more capable than the equalizer that is congenital into Windows, the best video optimization options are typically going to exist at the driver level. Video card manufacturers similar NVIDIA provide extremely feature-rich drivers that you tin employ to fine-tune the end user feel. Withal, at that place is a native Windows setting that I want to bear witness you.

To access the Windows Video Playback setting, open Settings and click on Apps, followed past Video Playback. As you lot can run into in Figure four, there is an selection that you lot can apply to automatically process video to heighten the style that it looks. Keep in mind that this setting only works if your hardware supports information technology.

**[Click on image for larger view.]** *Figure 4: You lot tin can raise video playback through automatic processing.*

If your PC supports it, there are likewise some settings accessible through this screen that allow yous to suit the HD color settings. A preview window allows you to gauge the event of whatsoever changes that you make, as shown in Figure 5.

**[Click on image for larger view.]** *Figure v: You can adjust the Windows HD color settings used for video playback.*

Nigh the Author

Brien Posey is a 20-time Microsoft MVP with decades of It experience. Every bit a freelance writer, Posey has written thousands of manufactures and contributed to several dozen books on a wide variety of It topics. Prior to going freelance, Posey was a CIO for a national chain of hospitals and wellness care facilities. He has as well served as a network administrator for some of the country'southward largest insurance companies and for the Department of Defense at Fort Knox. In improver to his connected work in IT, Posey has spent the last several years actively grooming every bit a commercial scientist-astronaut candidate in preparation to fly on a mission to study polar mesospheric clouds from infinite. You lot can follow his spaceflight training on his Spider web site.