How to fix low audio volume on Windows 11 devices

For those who expertise low audio quantity playback on Home windows 11, then you might be affected by the identical concern that I bumped into over this weekend. Once I turned on my HP laptop computer I spotted shortly that one thing was not proper.

First, I assumed that audio pfayback was muted, as I couldn’t hear something whereas taking part in music or watching movies. Once I moved the amount to 100%, I may barely hear the playback.

One thing was not proper. I first tried the standard fixes:

Ensure that audio playback was not muted with a click on on the sound icon in Home windows.
Ensure that audio was not muted by HP, with a faucet on the F5 key.
Ensure that quantity was set to 100% in Home windows.
Ensure that the audio controls of the laptop computer, on HP that’s F7 for growing the amount, was set to an applicable stage.

As soon as I spotted that the low quantity was not brought on by this, I began to analyze the difficulty additional. The Get Assist instrument of the Home windows 11 system was no assist, sadly. Whereas it displayed a couple of assist hyperlinks, it didn’t assist in the long run.

I restarted the PC to be sure that the audio playback concern was not brought on by a fluke; it was not.

Subsequent up was a verify of the Machine Supervisor. The audio elements had been put in high-quality and the motive force was the most recent as nicely.

Then, after taking part in round with audio machine settings in Home windows, I discovered the perpetrator.

Observe: This information doesn’t cowl different causes, together with broken audio tools.

How I fastened the low quantity in Home windows 11

Left-click on the Quantity-icon displayed on the Home windows taskbar.
Activate “Choose a sound output”.
Click on on “Transfer quantity settings”. This opens the Audio settings.
Scroll right down to the Superior part and choose “All audio gadgets”.
Choose the audio machine beneath Output that you simply use to play audio on the Home windows 11 PC.
Flip the characteristic Audio Enhancements to Off on the web page.

This fastened the difficulty instantly on my finish. It’s in all probability a good suggestion to show the amount down earlier than you make the change, as you might get blasted when you turned the whole lot as much as max.

I have no idea what precipitated this. I didn’t allow the audio enhancements characteristic manually and didn’t set up a brand new driver or an replace of any sort between the time audio labored usually to after I skilled the difficulty for the primary time.

Nonetheless, when you expertise a low audio quantity on Home windows 11, ideally with out you having made any adjustments, there’s a good probability that the above repair could resolve the difficulty in your finish as nicely.

What about you? Have you ever ever had points with audio playback on Home windows gadgets? Did you handle to repair these?

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