Audio popping issue

[Maeklos]

is it possible to set to surround regardless of what device you have? my sound stuttered regardless if it was on speaker or earbuds (the cheap $20 kind I use for my phonecalls) , but now it works regardless of speaker or earbuds

That is what I was going to do when I stumbled across the Windows default Spatial Sound setting.

Setting speaker output to surround 5.1 OR 7.1 does not fix the problem.