Balancing Your Headphones
Many of us have one ear that doesn’t hear as well as the other. In this situation, adjusting the system volume or an application’s volume is problematic because turning up the sound enough to hear things in your bad ear can make those sounds too loud in your good ear.
Windows can help by enabling you to balance the sound in each ear. That is, you can turn up the sound for your bad ear and/or turn down the sound for your good ear. Here’s what you do:
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 your headphones.
3. Click Properties.
4. Click the Levels tab. ...
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