Complete guide on how to improve, change, reset or manage Sound settings, choose speakers in Windows 11 for better audio.

In Windows, open up the Sound dialog from Control Panel then highlight your default audio output device (usually the speakers) and click Properties.

If you are hearing yourself on Mic via a playback device, it does not mean your microphone, speaker, headset, or system has malfunctioned. To fix this, you have to change the Sound Control Panel ...

Most motherboard manufacturers rely on either the Windows Control Panel or whatever software their audio codec supplier has come up with to serve as a user interface for enabling multichannel sound.

In 2017, Microsoft added support for ‘spatial sound’ in Windows 10 and on the Xbox One, opening up surround capabilities to headphones ranging from cheap earbuds to $3,000 audiophile favorites.

So whether you're using headphones or a 5.1 speaker system (or more), we have everything you need to know about getting the best surround sound for gaming.

With the release of Windows 10 20H2, Microsoft is now preventing access to the venerable SYSTEM control panel and is instead redirecting users to the newly updated 'About' settings page.