OpenAL is probably the best middle ground. Source: 11 months ago

OpenAL Soft - Greatly improves audio. (Enable EAX effects in SS2 settings after this OpenAL Soft is installed). System Shock 2 used hardware accelerated audio effects and those work only if you have sound card that supports them. OpenAL Soft implements all those effects in software so you get good audio. Source: almost 2 years ago

.MHR cannot be opened without a file viewer (Binary data). Source: almost 2 years ago

Sounds like you want OpenAL Soft a cross platform LGPL software implementation of OpenAL. Source code and issue tracker are [on Github](0https://github.com/kcat/openal-soft). Source: about 2 years ago

OpenAL. I found OpenAL v1.1 Windows Installer from OpenAL: Cross Platform 3D Audio but OpenAL Soft v1.21.0 from here https://openal-soft.org/. What is the difference and which should I download? Source: about 2 years ago

Qjackctl will do that. It might be overkill for your purposes, it's more commonly used in multichannel audio production. Source: about 1 year ago

You need something like this? qjackcl. Source: about 2 years ago

Make sure you have https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io/ installed, most likely available in your repo. Source: about 2 years ago

There are a number of GUI frontends for JACK, but I've personally used QjackCtl and Carla. Both do their job well enough. Source: about 2 years ago

Studio Controls + Carla, or Qjackctl (more on that later). Source: over 2 years ago