By using a third-party media player like VLC or Microsoft's built-in audio enhancement feature, you can increase your computer's volume beyond 100%.

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If these were the early 2000s. We would have said that having a sound card is a flex. With good reason, too. You'd slap one into your PC, crank up a media player, and pretend you were mastering audio.