Why do the speakers work when I turn on the headphones? When headphones are connected, sound remains in the speakers. Simultaneous playback on speakers and headphones on computers with a Realtek sound card

“The sound comes through the speakers and headphones at the same time”

IN in this case We will talk about laptops, but it may also be useful in the case of a desktop computer.

These are the questions people ask on the Internet: “When I connect headphones to my laptop, the sound in the speakers does not disappear, but is duplicated. It turns out that the sound comes through both the headphones and the speakers. Why? And how can I fix this?

Previously, a mechanical principle was used to turn off speakers when connecting headphones. Those. opening of contacts when a plug is inserted into the socket. So sometimes these contacts got stuck or something else. It's crap, and some people advise inserting a screwdriver into the socket and hitting it with a hammer (seriously, I read it myself). I strongly do not recommend hitting laptops with a hammer. It is better to give it to a specialist.

But progress does not stand still, and in modern laptops the switching is carried out electronically or by software. Perhaps this is your case.

As a rule, the problem lies in the drivers, but first you should look in the sound card settings to see if there is something similar to switching the sound between speakers and headphones. If you don't find anything, then simply uninstall the sound card driver and restart your computer. In the case of Windows XP, you will need to immediately find and install the correct driver on the laptop manufacturer's website. But Windows 7 can select the driver itself. If sound appears, check how it works with headphones. The switching occurs, then you can download again, as for XP, the correct driver and install it.

The problem was actually solved by Lenovo laptop B590. By the way, there is one common headphone jack plus a microphone. That’s why some people write that the headphones don’t fit or the plug is not the right length, none of this matters. The sound works and switches on regular headphones.

Do you often have to disconnect and connect your headphones to your computer due to circumstances beyond your control? This is not very good, because... frequent connection Over time, headphones can lead to poor contact in the audio jack, which will result in noise in the sound or even cut off. Therefore, I recommend that you turn on your headphones and speakers at the same time so as not to wear out your equipment prematurely. Headphones and speakers playing at the same time can play simultaneously and below you will learn how to organize this.

Simultaneously playback sound on 2 pairs of wired headphones, or wired and wireless

This method works for doubles wired headphones, both wired and wireless. In the same way, using this method, you can connect headphones and speakers, the sound will be played simultaneously. I tested this method on a computer with built-in sound card Realtek, on computers from others sound chip this method may not work.

Step 1 - Playback Devices

Find the speaker icon in the lower right corner of the screen, right-click on it, and in the window that appears, select the “Playback Devices” menu.

Step 2 - Recording Devices

Now open the “Recording Devices” tab. You see a list of all devices connected to the computer that can record sound. Click on the empty space inside the window with the right mouse button, in the appeared context menu select "Show disabled devices".

Step 3 - Stereo Mixer

Now in the list of devices you have a hidden device called “Stereo Mixer”. It will be disabled, right-click on it and select “Enable”.

Step 4 - Listening Settings

Right-click the Stereo Mixer device and select Properties. A window with several tabs will open, we are interested in the “Listen” tab. Enter it. Check the box “Listen with of this device", and below in the drop-down menu, select the second headphones or speakers in which you want to hear the sound. If you want to simultaneously send audio to wired and wireless headphones, select from the drop-down menu bluetooth headphones. After that, click "Ok".

That's it, now you should hear sound in two devices simultaneously. The method is universal and works on most computers, but not all. In the same way, you can set up simultaneous sound playback on speakers and headphones.

Simultaneous playback on speakers and headphones on computers with a Realtek sound card

This method requires that your computer has a Realtek sound card and the latest official drivers installed for it.

Step 1 - Control Panel


Go to the control panel of your Windows computer. Click “start”, find the “control panel” menu and click on it. If you have Windows 10, you need to click on “start”, then start typing the word “panel” in Russian on your keyboard, your search will turn on, and in the first search results you will see the “control panel” menu. Click on it.

Once you are in the control panel, find the menu “ Realtek Manager HD" or simply "Realtek HD". Launch it.

Step 2 - Realtek Setup


On the right top corner Realtek settings you will see the “Advanced device settings” menu. Click on it.

Step 3 - additional settings Realtek


Set the settings as you see them in the screenshot above.

Step 4 - connector parameters


Do you see where the mouse cursor is in the screenshot? Click on this yellow folder, you will see a window for setting up the connector parameters. Set it up the same way as you see in the screenshot, otherwise simultaneous audio playback in headphones and speakers will not work.

That's all, now if you connect headphones to the output on and a speaker to the rear panel (or vice versa), then the sound will go to both the speakers and the headphones simultaneously. You no longer need to plug and unplug your headphones every time you need them.

Yesterday my wife and I decided to watch a movie, but in order not to disturb anyone, we had to distribute the sound simultaneously to two pairs of headphones. Some headphones are simple wired ones, which simply intercept the sound from the speakers when you connect them to the laptop, and the second ones are wireless Qumi Concord connected via bluetooth. Is it really possible to make this standard? using Windows 7?

It turned out that it was quite possible. Most computers these days come with a built-in sound card from RealTek. It requires native drivers to be installed on it, not even necessarily the latest ones, but not the ones that come with Win7 out of the box.

Now I only have sound from the speakers, and the microphone is used from wireless headphones. Open the Recording tab.

Then we turn on the display of all devices, even those that are disabled according to the system.

I have a supposedly disabled software Stereo Mixer on my sound card. After which it needs to be turned on.

And choose to have it play on your second audio output device. In my case, these are wireless headphones. After which the system will simultaneously output sound to the speakers (or the first headphones) and additional device, for example wireless.