diff --git a/src/sound/win32_s.cpp b/src/sound/win32_s.cpp
--- a/src/sound/win32_s.cpp
+++ b/src/sound/win32_s.cpp
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ const char *SoundDriver_Win32::Start(con
 	wfex.wFormatTag = WAVE_FORMAT_PCM;
 	wfex.nChannels = 2;
 	wfex.wBitsPerSample = 16;
-	wfex.nSamplesPerSec = GetDriverParamInt(parm, "hz", 11025);
+	wfex.nSamplesPerSec = GetDriverParamInt(parm, "hz", 44100);
 	wfex.nBlockAlign = (wfex.nChannels * wfex.wBitsPerSample) / 8;
 	wfex.nAvgBytesPerSec = wfex.nSamplesPerSec * wfex.nBlockAlign;
 
-	_bufsize = GetDriverParamInt(parm, "bufsize", (GB(GetVersion(), 0, 8) > 5) ? 2048 : 1024);
+	_bufsize = GetDriverParamInt(parm, "bufsize", (GB(GetVersion(), 0, 8) > 5) ? 8192 : 4096);
 
 	if (waveOutOpen(&_waveout, WAVE_MAPPER, &wfex, (DWORD_PTR)&waveOutProc, 0, CALLBACK_FUNCTION) != MMSYSERR_NOERROR)
 		return "waveOutOpen failed";