Although perhaps there are many users who do not care about the volume of their PC or even have the speakers disconnected, there are many others who listen to music, radio, videos or even series and movies on a daily basis. Contents that on many occasions may have been recorded at a very low volume and no matter how much we raise the volume of our equipment, we cannot hear it well. Next, we are going to show how we can increase the volume on your computer .
Sometimes, these contents that have been recorded at low volume and we do not hear well on our PC may be playing them in streaming directly from the browser, while on other occasions, the source is likely to be a file that we have saved in the computer or that we just downloaded. Either way, we are going to show how we can increase the volume in the browser or directly in the system.
How to increase the volume in your browser
Taking into account that Google Chrome is the most used browser in the world and that today most of the content we reproduce is streaming, we can use an extension that allows us to amplify the volume and thus not have problems when it comes to to listen to any content.
In this sense, Volume Master is an extension for Chrome that, as its name suggests, allows us to increase the volume of the computer and the Google browser. Specifically, this extension promotes increasing the sound by up to 600% . To do this, the first thing we have to do is go to the Google Chrome Store and add Volume Master to our browser.
Once this is done, to multiply the volume of what we are playing in the browser, the only thing we will have to do is click on the extension icon and select the volume of what we are listening to, between 0% and 600%. Therefore, this extension allows us to increase up to 6 times the volume of everything we listen to from the Chrome browser.
If we are one of those who use the Mozilla web browser, Firefox , unfortunately we do not have the same extension compatible with said browser, therefore, we will have to look on the Mozilla add-ons page for any that manages to increase the volume of what we reproduce in the browser. In this sense, SoundFixer is an add-on or extension for Firefox that has been developed to help users solve the typical sound problems that we can find when playing content on YouTube.
It has two controls that allow you to fix those audios that are heard very high or very low, as well as those that for some reason are being heard through a single channel. Therefore, it can help us increase the volume of what we are listening to in Firefox.
Amplify the volume of your PC in Windows 10
Microsoft’s own operating system has certain settings to improve sound reproduction on the computer, control the volume of certain programs or specific applications, etc. If we open the Windows 10 Configuration page, Win + I, and navigate to the System> Sound option , we will find the possibility to choose the output device for the system sound, the volume controller and just below, a link to the sound troubleshooter in Windows 10.
Therefore, we can try to increase the default volume of the system or launch the sound troubleshooter to verify that we do not have any problems in the equipment and hence we cannot increase the volume of the equipment. We can also access the sound settings or the audio troubleshooter by clicking on the speaker icon that is displayed in the system tray.
If we have volume problems with certain applications, then we can try to amplify the volume of some of them from the Windows 10 volume mixer. To do this, we click on the speaker icon that is displayed in the system tray with the right mouse button and select the Volume Mixer option .
This will show us the volume controls for each of the applications open on the desktop that can reproduce sound. In this way, we can raise the volume to the maximum in that application where the sound is too low.
Improve sound quality
Windows 10 offers another option to improve the sound quality of the system. To do this, the first thing we have to do is open the control panel, enter the Sound option and then select the Playback tab. There, we select our system speakers and click on the Properties button shown in the lower right.
This will open the speaker properties window where, within the Enchancements tab, we will find the Loudness Equalization option, which is the one we must select and which allows us to select various improvements in the sound configuration.
Activate the sound equalizer in Windows 10
Windows 10 has an application to play music and that allows us to make certain adjustments and improve the sound of the system while we listen to music. The tool we are referring to is Groove, an application that we can open by simply typing its name in the search box on the taskbar and clicking on the result that is shown.
This will open a window with the interface of the tool in which we will have to access its configuration from the gear icon that appears in the lower left part. Once there, we click on the Equalizer option in the Reproduction section and a window will open from which we can customize different levels of audio frequency in order to increase the volume of the audio.
Increase the volume above the allowed limit
But if these Windows 10 options do not allow us to solve our problem, then we can use third-party applications to multiply the volume of your PC. In this sense, Letasoft Sound Booster is a free tool with which we will be able to increase the volume of our computer by up to 500%.
To start using Letasoft Sound Booster , the first thing we have to do is download and install the tool on the computer. Once this is done, we launch the application and we will see how a volume controller will appear on the right side of the Windows 10 taskbar. From there we will be able to activate or deactivate said control, as well as slide the setting to increase the volume of the system by up to 500%.
Use an audio amplifier
But if you really need to listen to the sound from your PC at a high volume and without distortion, another recommendation would be to use a sound amplifier. Most professional and semi-professional sound systems consist of an audio source, an amplifier, and speakers. In this case, the sound source would be our PC and between it and the speakers we must place an audio amplifier.
Depending on the model and the characteristics we have different input connections, but with the appropriate cable (Jack, RCA, XLR, etc.) we can already connect our audio output to the input of the amplifier. On the other hand, we have to connect our speakers to the audio output of the amplifier.
The operation of the amplifier is the same as the applications to increase the volume, but with the difference that this is done by hardware so the sound is increased without acting directly on the audio track and in this way no quality is lost or appear the annoying distortions. In the market there is a wide variety of models with more or less inputs or with more or less output power, so it will be easy to find a system that suits our needs.
