At some point it will ask you to select which devices you want to use the equalizer on. I can now turn up my headset to 100% and comfortably listen to music at this setting!įixing this is pretty simple thanks to a handy little utility called Equalizer APO.Īfter you download you are going to want to run the installer. I found this thread where OP links to a program called Equalizer APO which can turn down your volume. I had the same issue, that a setting > 2% would make my head explode, like you, I couldn't find a proper solution to this problem.
Hopefully, Microsoft will improve the generic USB audio driver in the future to make it possible to lower the scale for the master volume somehow. but so far, this is the only working to the solution that I've been able to locate, and for me this is quite acceptable. This means that you have to set the volume individually for all applications you use that produce sound, which can be a bit of a pain (if they are many). Set the volume of your source application (e.g., Media Center Set the volume of the USB speaker to 100% It was really frustrating, only level 1 and 2 was at all usable with the headset. This is really interesting I had the same problem also (with a Trust "USB Headset for Mac", which obviously works well with Windows and other OS:es also.).