System Enable or Disable Audio Enhancements in Windows 11

I am probably the only person on this forum that has a battle to disable enhancemnents.

Due to deafness, I can only hear on one side, even then with a hearing aid.

So I have to select option to make all sound monaural. Also my hearing aids have sophisticated frequency adjustment. I cannot hear above 5 Khz which lops off half of human speech range - upshot is females are harder to hear than males (maybe an advantage lol).

My hearing aids are clever and remodulate higher frequencies to a lower frequency, so I can hear full speech range - upshot is all women now have a sexy husky voice lol.

Can you imagine the chaos sophisticated audio enhancements have on my hearing as my specialist hearing aids are being thrown a wobbler all the time?

So I turn all enhanced sounds off and then my hraring aids work well. Ok maybe every thing is kind of "levelised" but I get the clearest speech rendition which is immensely valuable to me.

The annoying part is after updates, I have to recheck audio settings and make sure all enhancements are off. To me, as flat as possible, also keeping audio volume constant if possible is great. So I might lose some nuances, but that is far better than losing up to 30% of speech.

Hi,
is there a way to do this from registry/group policy/ powershell?

Hello

I was recommended to this site from an independent advisor for Microsoft. My issue is when I disable the Realktek enhancement the audio/video does not work.

The enhancement feature that is giving me issues is the Realtek.

When it is unchecked and turned off my audio and videos do not play. Neither does youtube or any webvideos. This goes for the internal speakers as well as the headphone jack. The only way to hear audio is to keep this on but the audio sounds like it is coming through an old phone. I should be able to turn this off and still play audio


All the repair steps from Microsoft and Dell have been tried. The PC has been through a soft reset, a factory reset, and I also did a suggestion of the repair reset.

I am still getting the same issue. When the audio enhancement is not on the audio does not play through internal speaker nor headphones, the test tone audio fails, no local video files can play either. No YouTube videos or any online video plays. Youtube screen will say an audio rendering issue. Local audio files will give error and say it is unsupported coding...0X8000FFFF, when the enhancement is on there is no issue at all.

Drivers, Bios, chips etc are up to date. I have had this laptop for less than 2 months, so I did not really have any 3rd party software installed to cause this problem.

Troubleshooter even suggest disabling the enhancement but again...this is the problem.

Do you have any idea what is going on and how to fix this issue? I have attached the link to my original support question. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Hello @dcw4092, and welcome.

I'll let the sound experts way end to hopefully help since I'm not a sound expert, but for now you could check to make sure mono audio is not turned on, and test if turning on or off spatial audio makes any difference in quality.

Thank you for your response @Brink

My mono is off but the spatial enhancement is not even an option for me it seems