Equalizing the Volume
You might find that wide fluctuations in volume can make sounds—particularly speech—much harder to perceive. You can compensate by turning on the Loudness Equalization enhancement for your computer’s speakers or your headphones, which makes all sounds that emanate from your computer equally loud.
Follow these steps to turn on Loudness Equalization:
1. Right-click the Volume icon in the taskbar notification area and then click Playback Devices. Windows 8 displays the Sound dialog box with the Playback tab selected.
2. In the list of playback devices, click the sound device you want to adjust.
3. Click Properties. Windows 8 opens the Properties dialog box for the device.
4. Click the Enhancements tab.
5. Activate the Loudness ...
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