For some cards this may only appear in sound card control panel application. For Xonar cards it appears under Custom tab. For Microphone and Line In proprieties, also look for an option called Monitoring and uncheck if it is checked.

Go to Listen tab and uncheck “Listen to this device” if it is checked.ģ.2.

For each device (Microphone, Line In, Aux, Stereo Mix, Wave, ALT etc.) go to its proprieties by double-clicking on it, then:ģ.1.

Open Windows Sound (right-click on Windows Volume tray icon-> Sounds or if missing type in Windows search: change system sounds).

They could have been enabled by the user's intervention, an application or because of a Windows bug. By default, neither “Listen to this device” nor Monitoring options are enabled. 'Listen to this device' and Monitoring options are used to play in real time through speakers or headphones the sounds that are captured by Microphone, Line In, Stereo Mix or Wave recording devices. Disable 'Listen to this device' and Microphone and Line In Monitoring

These type of echos are clearly audible for example when playing and pausing a song despite not having any fade out effects enabled in the audio player. Here are some possible fixes for sounds echos that are heard during the audio playback of music, movies and video games.

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