Improving sound quality for music, games or movies.Headphones are a great budget acoustics option. When set up correctly, even inexpensive models can handle music well and provide a more enjoyable gaming experience than most speakers.How to improve headphone sound.
- Modern pop music requires low frequencies to work out the bass.
- If the headphones can only reproduce the mids and highs, then they are still suitable for games and movies. Moreover, in many “bass” models, the low frequencies are too high, which makes watching movies unpleasant.
- But in shooters, enhanced bass enhances the feeling of gunshots and explosions. However, shooters in turn need at least 7.1 virtual surround sound.
Next, we will give a number of tips on how to modify the sound of any headphones using simple means.
Look for software on the manufacturer’s website
Sometimes, to work with a PC, they release utilities and drivers for a specific model or line of headphones. They can greatly enhance the sound or provide an equalizer. In addition to utilities for headphones, you should also look for software for your sound card. For example, for older versions of Realtek there is an excellent utility called Nahimic, with presets for every task (shooter, movie, music, etc.).
Turn on headphone enhancements in Windows sound settings
To do this, in the “Control Panel” go to the “Hardware and Sound” category and open the “Sound” item. In the window that opens, select your headphones and click the Properties button at the bottom. In the “Enhancements” tab (for some reason it has not yet been translated) try to set different checkboxes and check how the sound has changed. Best of all, this will be noticeable by the music running in the background.
The “Headphone Virtualization” item often makes the sound dirtier – not recommended
Check that the audio format is set to “24 bit, 48000 Hz”
This is the best choice for most inexpensive acoustics, including headphones. You can set the desired format in the “Advanced” tab of the sound device properties window.
Turn on surround sound for games and movies
This can be done in different ways, with different results. Firstly, in the same headphone properties window there is a section “Spatial sound”. There you can enable the “Windows Sonic for Headphones” format. However, in our experience, it doesn’t always work. Secondly, there is a very high-quality solution from Microsoft – Dolby Access . And also an interesting alternative to DTS Sound Unbound . They are both paid, but the first couple of weeks are free to use.
Good 3D Audio Test
Change to a higher quality music format
In Vkontakte and most free services, the downloaded tracks are compressed as much as possible to save space. As a result, they sound more bland and detail suffers greatly. Audio CD level can be obtained only on some paid music resources like Apple Music, as well as when listening to lossless formats like FLAC.
