As the legendary sarod player Ali Akbar Khan once said (paraphrasing a recording engineer): “Technology should disappear. Only the raga remains.” On Windows 7, the technology disappears just a little bit more.
The user believes the Windows 7 audio engine (specifically Kernel Streaming or WASAPI in exclusive mode) preserves the subtle harmonic richness and temporal dynamics of Raga performances better than Windows 10/11. windows 7 raga sounds better