Windows 10: Sound very loud even at 1% volume

Even when my headphones are set to 1% in the volume mixer, everything is almost deafening. At 100% it's as if they're speakers instead of earphones. How can I make 1% quiet? I've updated all my drivers and have a set of Heil Sound headphones.

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Earphone volume too loud or too quiet on Windows 10


Hi I'm having a weird problem on my laptop running Windows 10 Pro. The earphone volume is either too loud or too quiet, and seems to switch between these two upon every restart. When it's too loud, keeping it at 1/100 is equivalent to 20-30/100 when sound was normal, when it's too quiet, keeping it at 100/100 is equivalent to 10-20/100 when sound was normal. Already googled extensively and tried pretty much every suggestion I found with no results:

• Enable/disable loudness equalization in playback device settings
• Enable/disable Windows Sonic for headphones in playback device settings
• Check for errors in sound devices in device manager - no errors
• Update sound drivers - all updated
• Try different earphones - tried like 4 already, definitely not an issue with earphones
• Even tried system restore, still not fixed

Screenshot of device manager: https://i.stack.imgur.com/HKSzf.png

Does anyone know what else to try?

 

Headphone volume is way too loud in windows 10 even with an external usb sound card

I have a pair of Bose QC2 headphones and the volume is WAY too loud in windows on all jacks:

I have tried the following jacks:

• speaker out on back of motherboard
  
• headphone out
  
• external USB sound card (Sabrent Aluminum USB External Stereo Sound Adapter)
  

In each case, even a windows volume setting of 1/100 is too loud. Using the same headphones on my macbook pro the lowest volume is MUCH lower.

Is there any way to reduce the volume levels? I'm debating purchasing a more expensive external sound card that has a volume knob that is independent of the windows system volume.

 

Volume too loud on lowest setting.

Hi,

I am having trouble with my Samsung Omnia 7's volume control. The lowest setting (1 out of 30) is uncomfortably loud for watching Youtube videos and listening to music with earphones. The volume difference from 0 (silent) to 1 is huge, let alone 2-30. I
know there is a diagnostic menu called Sound Tuning where gain levels can be altered, is it possible to get some help with this? since nobody seems to know what the values actually change.

Thanks =)